For Adorno, conceptual identification itself constitutes domination over nature.
Evidence
Rather than view the individual as a piece of nature to be freed from its social transformation, Adorno instead foregrounds the mediation between society and nature, which he also views as the mediation between the identifying concept and what evades identification, the non-identical: identification is domination of nature. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1264
Categorization
- DEFINE: Pins the identification-is-domination claim to the mediation between society and nature, grounding the non-identical in the nature-society polarity.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno reads reification as human self-domination through self-created compulsion — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 88; Adorno rejects mastery of nature as progress because domination entangles humanity in nature — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1585; Adorno and Horkheimer rejected total identity with nature as regressive stasis — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 803 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno rejects mastery of nature as progress because domination entangles humanity in nature
#expands(0.95) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1585 - Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination
#qualifies(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 826 - Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans
#expands(0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 703 - Adorno’s identification of exchange with identity logic is meta-economic, not capitalist
#expands(0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1298 - Individual identity resists destruction because it depends on nature beyond the will
#expands(0.80) - Domination over nature is a systematic attitude, not isolated events
#expands(0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 173 - Adorno and Horkheimer rejected total identity with nature as regressive stasis
#qualifies(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 803 - Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously.
#expands(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363