Adorno's Noise

Author: Carla Harryman

Publisher: Essay Press (2008)

Adorno's Noise is a collection of experimental, poetic, and conceptual essays that "once again proves how necessary an encounter with [Harryman's] writing has become for us today" (Avital Ronell). Adorno's Noise takes a stunning plunge into a kaleidoscopic world of globalization, female sexuality, the place of art and artist, and the looming power of the state. Phrases from Theodor Adorno's aphoristic philosophical text, Minima Moralia, serve as catalysts for an explosion of thought and language that quickly breaks Adorno's orbit. As Rob Halpern puts it: "Adorno's Noise reinvents the 'essay as form,' but it doesn't stop short of reinventing thinking."