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High/Low and the Discourse of "Anti"

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In their dispute over the demands of ‘the politics of art," whereas Benjamin argued that the key determinant is technological change, Adorno saw the key issue as the split between high art and low. "Both [the highest and the lowest] are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however, they do not add up."¹ This idea is repeated in, and guides, Adorno's published response to Benjamin.²

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Without following Adorno's theory, I intend to use this idea—that the key to understanding critical discourse about art involves the high/low distinction as central, but also as halves which do not...