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08
Ibid.
failed.” 08 And thus “[a]ll post-Auschwitz culture, including its urgent critique,
is garbage.” 09 And, in this “garbage,” Adorno also includes criticism,
and therefore his own work. A figure of radical negation that refers to
itself. Much has been written about the paradox contained therein; and
the ambivalence contained therein also applies in many ways to Lurie’s
work: art and garbage are mutually dependent.
09
Ibid., p. 367.
GERTRUD KOCH