Technologies of Critique
Willy Thayer
Abstract
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. This book elaborates a critical practice that eludes such capture. Building on Chile's history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, the book engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Espos ... More
Keywords: critique, politics, thought, Chile, philosophical tradition, technologies, art, media, socio-political life
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823286744 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2020 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823286744.001.0001 |
