Extinct Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4440355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Kornbluh (0009-0008-7810-4447, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 767-777 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-8663675 |
| OpenAlex | W4246700527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
What is the connection between the discourse of postcritique and the material conditions in which it has taken hold? How do privatization, the destruction of the university, and ecocide bend the trajectory of theory and critique in the present? In posing and exploring these questions, this essay endeavors to perform the traditional function of critique: inquiry into the relations around ideas, embedding ideas in their environments, in order to project alternative relations and environments more conducive to flourishing. I argue that theoretical habits of horizontalism and hypercomplexity have undermined the critical force of mapping environments and building the world up, and that critical theory abides at present in environmental activism rather than in ecocriticism
Biology · Critical theory · Ecocriticism · Embedding · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Flourishing · Function (biology) · Order (exchange) · Social science · Sociology · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |