Adorno read astrology as capitalism regressing thought to magic

Evidence

Adorno (2001) famously described astrology as capitalist society’s “regression to magic” where “thought is assimilated to late capitalist forms” that are fundamentally “asocial” (173) and where occulting forces not only do not predict the future but craft it in the image of the commodified, reified present. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 368

Categorization

• QUESTION: The paragraph cuts off mid-thought at ‘occulting forces not only do…’ — the excerpt can’t be completed from the given text, making the passage unusable and the claim hard to anchor.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno read astrology as an ideology serving dependent authoritarian personalities — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 593

Broader Connections

• Adorno read astrology as an ideology serving dependent authoritarian personalities #corroborates (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 593