.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #5: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
The less subjects live anymore, the more abrupt, frightening, the death.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #7: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
...without power over it and ridiculous before it...
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #51: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
Death and history... form a constellation.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #23: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
... the downfall of the individual brings down the entire construction of bourgeois existence along with it...
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #1: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
Hence the constant panic in the sight of death.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #1: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
Hence the constant panic in the sight of death.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #23: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
Death as such, or as a biological Ur-phenomenon, is not to be extracted out of the coils of history...
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #14: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
...the form, by which the consciousness comes to grips with death,
varies along with the concrete conditions of how one dies...
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #30: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
What death does to what is socially condemned, is anticipated biologically in beloved human beings of great age;
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #34: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
not only their bodies but their ego,
everything which determines them as human beings,
crumbles without illness and violent intervention.
everything which determines them as human beings,
crumbles without illness and violent intervention.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #33: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
has, in its indifference towards that experience, something foolish and cynical about it.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #35: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
Whoever turns away from what negated their possible fulfillment, pulls a face at the metaphysical need.
Street view: a series of unfortunate events #38: photo by Michael Wolf, 2010
Theodor Adorno: Dying Today, from Negative Dialectics (1966) (edited excerpts), translated by Michael Redmond, 2001