Technologies of Critique / / Willy Thayer.

Critique—a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world—is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such cap...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translation has always already begun: translator’s introduction
  • 1. Critique and life
  • 2. Critique and work
  • 3. The kríno constellation
  • 4. Technologies of critique
  • 5. The word “critique”
  • 6. Marx’s critical turn
  • 7. Crisis and avant-garde
  • 8. Critical attitude
  • 9. Sovereign critique I
  • 10. Hyperbole
  • 11. Sovereign critique II
  • 12. The epoch of critique
  • 13. Critique within the frame, critique of the frame
  • 14. Manet: the Kant of painting
  • 15. Heidegger’s demand
  • 16. Critique and figure
  • 17. Thought and figure
  • 18. The leveling of the pit
  • 19. The clash of film and theater
  • 20. Critique’s loss of aura
  • 21. Critique and mass
  • 22. Nihil and philosophy
  • 23. Jenny
  • 24. The epoch of nihilism. Nihil as epoch.
  • 25. The exhausted age
  • 26. The coexistence of technologies: Marx
  • 27. Referential illusion
  • 28. Critique and installation
  • 29. Critique as the unworking of theater
  • 30. Destruction
  • 31. Sovereign exception, destructive exception
  • 32. The absolute drought of critique
  • 33. Sorel: sovereign critique
  • 34. Benjamin: pure strike and critique
  • 35. The destruction of theater
  • 36. Thought is inseparable from a critique
  • Notes
  • Index