The Man For Whom Time

Cultural Criticism Finds Itself Faced With The Final Stage Of The Dialectic Of Culture And Barbarism. To Write Poetry After Auschwitz Is Barbaric. And This Corrodes Even The Knowledge Of Why It Has Become Impossible To Write Poetry Today. Absolute Reification, Which Presupposed Intellectual Progress As One Of Its Elements, Is Now Preparing To Absorb The Mind Entirely. Critical Intelligence Cannot Be Equal To This Challenge As Long As It Confines Itself To Self-satisfied Contemplation.

The Straight Line Is Regarded As The Shortest Distance Between Two People, As If They Were Points.

The Individual Mirrors In His Individuation The Preordained Social Laws Of Exploitation, However Mediated.

Not Only Is The Self Entwined In Society; It Owes Society Its Existence In The Most Literal Sense.

Happiness Is Obsolete: Uneconomic.