speaking objects

brendan@server2.techinfo.com.au brendan at server2.techinfo.com.au
Mon, 25 Dec 2000 22:04:18 +0000


For the translation in the English edition:

"No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but 
there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb."

NEGATIVE DIALECTICS, p.320, trans. E.B Ashton, London, 1973.

Brendan


> what about an adorno quote that runs something like 'there may be no progress 
> from slavery to liberation, but there is progress from the slingshot to the 
> neutron bomb'? sound at all familiar?
> Paul
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