Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust

Evidence

But idiosyncracy inheres in the particular. The general, that which fits into the functional context of society, is considered to be natural. But nature which has not been transformed through the channels of conceptual order into something purposeful, the grating sound of a stylus moving over a slate, the haut gout which recalls filth and decomposition, the sweat which appears on the brow of the busy man—everything which has failed to keep up, or which infringes the commandments which are the sedimented progress of the centuries—has a penetrating effect; it arouses disgust. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137

Categorization

• XREF: The particulars-that-escape-conceptual-order are the same thing that fail assimilation in the culture-industry standardization analysis; the reader can trace how ‘what escapes the schema’ gets coded as disgusting. — connects to: Nausea is the nonpositional apprehension of one’s own contingent facticity, not a metaphor — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 886; The slimy’s horror is the fear that facticity will absorb the For-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1406; Fundamental nausea reveals the facticity of existence beneath all empirical disgusts (+6 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Adorno’s micro-analysis of disgust — triggered by sweat, haut gout, grating sounds — as the somatic registration of what civilization’s categories failed to subdue is dense and paradigm-shifting.

Broader Connections

• Disgust blocks sympathy and functions as a device of subordination #complicates (0.85)
• Disgust as social evaluation displaces sympathy and solidarity as responses to injustice #complicates (0.85) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 746
• Disgust blocks the solidarity that egalitarian societies otherwise owe the excluded #complicates (0.82) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 746
• Disgust is not moral in itself; causing it unfairly is. #qualifies (0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 665
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought #exemplifies (0.80)
• Phobic objects are overdetermined by infantile affect and resist rational correction #complicates (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 589