Part III: Institutions and technologies. Jacques Lezra. Part I: Visions of critique. Defective institutions; or, critique / Kathrin Thiele -- The most difficult task : on the idea of an impure pure non-violence in Derrida / Leonard Lawlor -- The changeability of the world : utopia and critique/ Sam McAuliffe -- Seeking intelligent life in the time of COVID-19; or, thinking 'Epicritically' / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- Part II: Critical reading. Suspicious minds : critique as symptomatic reading / Esther Peeren -- The ends of critical intimacy : Spivak, Fanon, and appropriative reading / Birgit M. Kaiser -- Critical vivisection : transforming ethical sensibilities / Timothy O'Leary -- Part III: Institutions and technologies. Unwinding the abstraction of whiteness / Shannon Winnubst -- How not to be governed like that by our digital technologies / Mercedes Bunz -- Defective institutions; or, critique / Jacques Lezra.
Summary:
"The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume's reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica"-- Provided by publisher.
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