Adorno demanded inverting Benjamin’s imagery so reality, not fantasy, undergoes fetishistic inversion

Evidence

Ontheonehand,AdornoobjectstoBenjaminthatinarealfetishisticinversion, ‘[t]he ring of Saturn should not become a cast-iron balcony, but the balcony should become the real ring of Saturn’, and that on the other, ‘[a]s was probably your own intention, the conception of the commodity fetish must be documented with appropriate passages from the man who discovered it’ – that is, with passages from Marx’s Capital. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 249

Categorization

• XREF: The demand to ground fetish analysis in Marx’s Capital rather than surrealist imagery speaks directly to the reader’s project of linking Adorno to the critique of political economy. — connects to: Adorno saw mass art as reconciling audiences to the status quo, unlike Benjamin. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 630; Adorno used fetishism to mediate Marx and Freud into synthesis — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 405; Benjamin located commodity fetishism in collective consciousness, contradicting Marxism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 241 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno used fetishism to mediate Marx and Freud into synthesis #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 405
• Benjamin located commodity fetishism in collective consciousness, contradicting Marxism #expands (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 241