Technologies of Critique / Willy Thayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thayer, Willy, Author.

Contributor:

Kraniauskas, John

Series:

Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 capture. Building on Chile’s history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Bruno Latour, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-8676-2

OCLC:

1130028110