Interview to H. Rusetskaya. (English)

The essay reviews Theodor W. Adorno's radio theory in his Current of Music and the works of Robert Hullot-Kentor from his recent book Things Beyond Resemblance. Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno. R. Hullot-Kentor's publication includes studies of over twenty years which deal with topics as manifold as elements of Adorno's negative dialectic: his critique of Kierkegaard, analysis of the dialectic of myth and reason, the founding of an essay as a philosophical form, determination of the idea of natural history. The main merit of Hullot-Kentor's lucid works is his emphasis on Adorno's aesthetic theory, his philosophy and sociology of arts and music. R. Hullot-Kentor insightfully demonstrates that Adorno's critique of music in radio and culture industry, the nucleus of which is developed in his early, fragmentary and unpublished Current of Music (reconstructed and edited by Hullot-Kentor for Adorno-Archive's edition of Nachgelassene Schriften), is key to his radical critique of contemporary society of totalized capital relation. In his essays, Hullot-Kentor captures the dialectic between the possibility of experience of the non-identical in musical material and its reification as an object of ownership in a society governed by commodification. Adorno's radio criticism refutes the detachment of technological and social relations as two isolated domains or systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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