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“Addiction of this kind permeates anything which runs counter to unswerving progress, from crime, which cannot take the detour through the current forms of labor, to the sublime work of art. The yielding attitude to things without which art cannot exist is not so far removed from the clenched violence of the criminal.” — Adorno/Horkheimer (DoE pg 189) on Freud’s death drive/Caillois’ le mimétisme and crime