Critique and the Digital, Paperback

Erich H rl, 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.

About author(s):Erich Hörl holds the Chair of Media Culture and Media Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Lotte Warnsholdt is a junior fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz, and a PhD candidate at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, DFG research group "Cultures of Critique." Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a PhD candidate at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, DFG research group "Cultures of Critique."