Glass Shards

Adorno characterized Critical Theory as a message in a bottle in 1940 when the exiled Frankfurt School''s sphere of influence was an ocean away from the catastrophes of fascism it sought to fight. Turning Adorno''s metaphor on its head some six decades later, Kluge likens his creative method in the interview with Oskar Negt that opens the second volume of the Kluge-Jahrbuch to echoes of light refr...