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The computerization of today's world has fundamentally transformed the sites of and for critique, and it challenges the meaning of critique as such. The subject of critique, constituted through the cultural techniques of modernity, now collides with the digital, which, as a condition of contemporary life, can be seen both as a product of modernity and as its very ending. Digitality severely alters the subject of critique and its spacio-temporal relations; it may even deprive the subject of its potentiality to be critical in the first place. The authors of this volume therefore examine the existence of critique in the digital, asking what it might be and in what settings it occurs.
List of contents
7 - 24 Introduction (Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Lotte Warnsholdt)25 - 74 The Critique of Data, or Towards a Phenomenotechnics of Algorithmic Culture (Mark B. N. Hansen)75 - 108 Artificial Critique (Luciana Parisi)109 - 146 Critique of Environmentality: On the World-Wide Axiomatics of Environmentalitarian Time (Erich Hörl)147 - 184 Crisis-Unrest-Common Sense: Melanie Gilligan, Critique, and the Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (Holger Kuhn)185 - 204 "Posthuman Documentary?" Speculation and Critique in Hito Steyerl's "Factory of the Sun" (Ying Sze Pek)205 - 228 The Grime of Critique (Lotte Warnsholdt)229 - 248 The Organizational A Priori: Critique of the Digital as Critique of Organization (Timon Beyes)249 - 264 Presentism: Digital Cultures and the Legacy of Media Critique (Claus Pias)265 - 290 As We May Have Thought: How Memory Gets Exteriorized Through Media Technologies and What That Means for Critique in Digital Cultures (Clemens Apprich)
