https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture
He would later write of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which premiered in 1913, that it represented an 'uproar of culture against its own essence as culture' which is 'enjoyed as an enticement precisely in its opposition to civilisation'. The ballet's 'flirtation with barbarism' was not merely musical – it reflected social facts, and indeed showed evidence of a kind of cultural trend towards regression, and of the domination of the individual by the social whole.
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