Technologies of Critique

Willy Thayer (Author) Willy Thayer is a prominent a prominent Chilean philosopher, art critic, and media theorist. He is Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, where he founded the Program in Critical Thought, and Professor of Film Theory at Universidad de Chile, in Santiago. He has written many books in Spanish and has curated gallery exhibits and shows in Europe and Latin America. He has held visiting professorships at Duke Unviersity, Yale University, UNAM (Mexico), and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.John Kraniauskas (Translator) John Kraniauskas is Professor of Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His most recent books are Políticas culturales: acumulación, desarrollo y crítica cultural (FLACSO) and Capitalism and its Discontents: Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture (University of Wales Press). He is the translator and editor of Carlos Monsiváis's Mexican Postcards (Verso).

• Translation Has Always Already Begun: Translator's Introduction vii1 Critique and Life 12 Critique and Work 53 The Kríno Constellation 84 Technologies of Critique 105 The Word "Critique" 146 Marx's Critical Turn 187 Crisis and Avant-Garde 198 Critical Attitude 249 Sovereign Critique I 2510 Hyperbole 2811 Sovereign Critique II 3112 The Epoch of Critique 3313 Critique within the Frame, Critique of the Frame 3514 Manet: The Kant of Painting 3815 Heidegger's Demand 4016 Critique and Figure 4417 Thought and Figure 4618 The Leveling of the Pit 4919 The Clash of Film and Theater 5120 Critique's Loss of Aura 5421 Critique and Mass 5522 Nihil and Philosophy 6023 Jenny 6224 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. 6625 The Exhausted Age 7026 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx 7327 Referential Illusion 7528 Critique and Installation 7629 Critique as the Unworking of Theater 8230 Destruction 8631 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception 8732 The Absolute Drought of Critique 9533 Sorel: Sovereign Critique 9734 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique 10435 The Destruction of Theater 10736 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique 111Notes 115Index 171