The public, its problems, and post-critique
The public, its problems, and post-critique
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公众、其问题和后批评
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2022
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J. Austin
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J. Austin
There’s no such thing as post-critique or post-criticality. Despite the books and the essays titled thus, post-critique stands as what Stengers (2008, 97) calls a “lure” that aims to “vectorize concrete experience” about the state of critique in contemporary society. This linkage (critique and society) is central: post-critique asks how critique might (or might not) need to change to be of continued social relevance. In this, and the fact that it is fundamentally a critique of critique (i.e. it is critique), post-critique is simply a desire to prevent the collapse of critique and—therein— represents a desire to negate the very need for this label. To explain this paradoxical logic, this text plays with Conway (2021) and others’ (Lorenzini & Tazzioli, 2020) critique of my use of post-critique (yes, this can go on endlessly). In doing so, I bracket what Conway terms “reactionary” post-critique. That reactionary mode would be better categorized as anti-critical, where the goal is the erasure of critique/ criticality. Part of the issue here is an ambiguity with the term “post-critique” itself, which can be read in one of two ways: