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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes critique's capture by institutional and market logics. Building on Chile's history of dissident art and its entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translation Has Always Already Begun: Translator's Introduction | vii 1 Critique and Life | 1 2 Critique and Work | 5 3 The Kríno Constellation | 8 4 Technologies of Critique | 10 5 The Word "Critique" | 14 6 Marx's Critical Turn | 18 7 Crisis and Avant-Garde | 19 8 Critical Attitude | 24 9 Sovereign Critique I | 25 10 Hyperbole | 28 11 Sovereign Critique II | 31 12 The Epoch of Critique | 33 13 Critique within the Frame, Critique of the Frame | 35 14 Manet: The Kant of Painting | 38 15 Heidegger's Demand | 40 16 Critique and Figure | 44 17 Thought and Figure | 46 18 The Leveling of the Pit | 49 19 The Clash of Film and Theater | 51 20 Critique's Loss of Aura | 54 21 Critique and Mass | 55 22 Nihil and Philosophy | 60 23 Jenny | 62 24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. | 66 25 The Exhausted Age | 70 26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx | 73 27 Referential Illusion | 75 28 Critique and Installation | 76 29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater | 82 30 Destruction | 86 31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception | 87 32 The Absolute Drought of Critique | 95 33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique | 97 34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique | 104 35 The Destruction of Theater | 107 36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique | 111 Notes | 115 Index | 171 ...
