Monitory Quotes

Adorno retains the concept of the system and even makes it, as target and object of critique, the very center of his own anti-systematic thinking. ... His most powerful philosophical and aesthetic interventions are all implacable monitory reminders-sometimes in well-nigh Weberian or Foucauldian tones-of our imprisonment within system, the forgetfulness or repression of which binds us all the more strongly to it. (Fredric Jameson)