Giving body to the impossible: the meaning of dialetic from Theodor Adorno, by Vladimir Safatle

Abstract

A new collapse of modernization. This is the diagnosis under which Vladmir Safatle's new book is written. But not an “infrastructural” collapse of modernization, along the lines of Kurz, for which the crisis of the labor society of real socialism would mark an “imminent crisis of the modern labor society in general”, because of the “competition mechanisms had so much success and undermined and weakened in fact the foundations of the commodity-producing system” (1992, p. 90). Safatle shows that the crisis of the labor society also has a superstructural dimension in three directions.