Philipp Moeller

“Der Zauber geht aufs bloße Tun, aufs Mittel über, kurz, auf die Industrie. Die Formalisierung der Vernunft ist bloß der intellektuelle Ausdruck der maschinellen Produktionsweise. Das Mittel wird fetischisiert: es absorbiert die Lust.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

“The western market economy and its consumer Orientation have produced (and are producing at an accelerating rate) a class of educated people whose intellectual formation is directed to satisfying market needs”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

“It is that, in a given society which is defined through its mode of production by institutions governing human relations, human life is ethically livable or that, if we prefer, man is always possible.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Quotable Sartre

“People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it and that before engulfing the whole edifice of western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism