Edited by Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt
320 pages
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4 3/4 x 7 3/4
Paper $30.00
ISBN: 9783035802429
Published
March 2021
N/F/S Belgium, France & Luxembourg
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ISBN: 9783035803020
Published
August 2020
N/F/S Belgium, France & Luxembourg
Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today’s world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not only the possible sites of critique but also of the concept of critique. If there used to be a critical subject constituted in the cultural techniques of modernity, and if digitality indicates itself as a product of modernity while at the same time somehow being its very ending, what are the ramifications? Digitality severely alters the critical subject and its spatio-temporal relations, and it therefore interferes with its potential to be a critical subject. The contributors of this volume ask what critique in the digital age might look like and offer specific examples of critique and critical practices.