Of The World As It Exists, It

In The Abstract Conception Of Universal Wrong, All Concrete Responsibility Vanishes.

Proletarian Language Is Dictated By Hunger. The Poor Chew Words To Fill Their Bellies.

It Is Not The Office Of Art To Spotlight Alternatives, But To Resist By Its Form Alone The Course Of The World, Which Permanently Puts A Pistol To Men's Heads.

Cultural Criticism Finds Itself Faced With The Final Stage Of The Dialectic Of Culture And Barbarism. To Write Poetry After Auschwitz Is Barbaric. And This Corrodes Even The Knowledge Of Why It Has Become Impossible To Write Poetry Today. Absolute Reification, Which Presupposed Intellectual Progress As One Of Its Elements, Is Now Preparing To Absorb The Mind Entirely. Critical Intelligence Cannot Be Equal To This Challenge As Long As It Confines Itself To Self-satisfied Contemplation.

Freedom Would Be Not To Choose Between Black And White But To Abjure Such Prescribed Choices.