{"id":4824,"date":"2009-11-18T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2009\/11\/18\/at-the-moment-when-human-beings-cut-themselves-off\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:44:12","slug":"at-the-moment-when-human-beings-cut-themselves-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/11\/18\/at-the-moment-when-human-beings-cut-themselves-off\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

At the moment when human beings cut themselves off from the consciousness of themselves as nature, all the purposes for which they keep themselves alive \u2013 social progress, the heightening of material and intellectual forces, indeed, consciousness itself \u2013 become void, and the enthronement of the means as the end, which in late capitalism is taking on the character of overt madness, is already detectable in the earliest history of subjectivity. The human being\u2019s mastery of itself, on which the self is founded, practically always involves the annihilation of the subject in whose service that mastery is maintained, because the substance which is mastered, suppressed, and disintegrated by self-preservation is nothing other than the living entity, of which the achievements of self-preservation can only be defined as functions \u2013 in other words, self-preservation destroys the very thing which is to be preserved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments<\/i> (translated by Edmund Jephcott) (via fuckyeahphilosophy<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the moment when human beings cut themselves off from the consciousness of themselves as nature, all the purposes for which they keep themselves alive \u2013 social progress, the heightening of material and intellectual forces, indeed, consciousness itself \u2013 become void, and the enthronement of the means as the end, which in late capitalism is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1fO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1726,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/01\/were-very-used-to-thinking-that-were-simply\/","url_meta":{"origin":4824,"position":0},"title":"We\u2019re very used to thinking\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"July 1, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"We\u2019re very used to thinking that we\u2019re simply walking upon a euclidean sphere, in a body, wearing the local culture, and that there is a today, yesterday, and tomorrow to worry about. 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