Alchemy
Granting the user eternal life, the successful creation of this object was considered the ultimate goal for any alchemist.
What is the philosopher's stone?
Protests over the use of numerous words taken from the language of this indigenous group in the Bionicle series forced the Lego group to change the names of several characters and story elements in 2002.
Who are the Maori?
The Institute for Social Research, where Adorno and Horkheimer worked before and after the war, was founded in this city
What is Frankfurt?
"Thesis-antithesis-synthesis" is a vulgarization of this Hegelian philosophical concept, used previously (but very differently) by Kant and Plato, among others
What is the dialectic?
This global conflict came to an end due to a revolution which began when German sailors in Kiel refused an order to set sail for one last futile battle with the Royal Navy, and instead formed workers' and soldiers' councils to take over their ships and occupy the city
What is World War I?
The alkahest, one of the most sought after alchemical substances, was supposed to possess this useful but somewhat problematic property (which would make it impossible to keep in any container)
What is a universal solvent?
This vaguely fascistic slogan is the motto of the Matoran in the first Bionicle movie
What is "unity, duty, destiny"?
Adorno liked to refer to friends and acquaintances using animal nicknames. He referred to himself as the "king" of this species of semiaquatic mammal (beloved by Chris for its strength and violence)
What is a hippopotamus?
Most universities in the US and Britain teach this kind of philosophy, which was founded in opposition to the "British Idealists," a group of philosophers influenced by Hegel who were popular in the late 19th century.
What is analytic philosophy?
A 1905 mutiny aboard this battleship was adapted into a famous 1925 silent film by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein
What is the battleship Potemkin?
This Swiss-German alchemist originated the saying, "the dose makes the poison," criticized the humoral theory, and wrote a recipe for creating a homunculus using human sperm and the womb of a horse
Who is Paracelsus?
Who is Takunuva?
This painting by Paul Klee shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
What is Angelus Novus?
In the Philosophy of History, Hegel opposes his teleological (although only so retroactively) view of history to conceiving of history as this
What is "the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized"?
In a 1971 incident, covered up for more than 30 years, a secret South Korean special forces team created in order to assassinate this North Korean leader rebelled against the guards at their training camp on the island of Silmido and fled to the mainland, where they hijacked a bus to Seoul, before getting into a shootout with the police and killing themselves with hand grenades
Who is Kim il-Sung?
What is a Russian-Chinese dictionary?
Vaguely similar to lacrosse, but played with multiple balls made from airstone and steel, this sport is the most important pastime of the Matoran and is featured in the opening scenes of "The Mask of Light."
What is Kolhii?
Adorno feuded with this famous Austrian philosopher of science during the so-called Positivismusstreit.
Who is Karl Popper?
A French-Russian philosopher, whose idiosyncratic reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit influenced Sartre, Lacan, Bataille, and others
Who is Alexandre Kojève?
A common myth attributes a breakdown in communication between ground control and the crew of this American space station in 1973 to a deliberate mutiny
What is Skylab?
What is Saturnism?
This being (technically a "rahi," a non-Matoran animal, although a sapient one) has a large false eye which he uses to detect the good and evil
Who is Keetongu?
Aside from the infamous attacks on Jazz, one of the most questionable Adorno takes is the passage in Minima Moralia where he accuses enjoyers of these two products of being engaged in homoerotic sadomasochism
What are whiskey and cigars?
Hegel's friend and rival Friedrich Schelling accused him of ripping off this 17th century mystic
Who is Jakob Böhme?
During this incident in 1910, a group of mostly afro-Brazilian sailors commandeered the Brazilian Navy's two most modern battleships in a protest against poor working conditions, racist treatment from white officers, and brutal discipline, including the use of whipping (which gave this revolt its name)
What is the Revolt of the Lash?