Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
Thinking in the 21st Century
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6647-1
Verlag: Polity Press
We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore: not persons, ideas, facts, realities, or beings. We owe our superhuman strength to a tool we have taken up that submits everything to the scrutiny of our judgment: critique. After its first formulation at the end of the sixteenth century, the project of critique spread from one sphere to another until it became almost universal: we have all of us been transformed by our equal capacity to judge, approve, and reject. If modernity is defined as the journey we have taken to move away from the myths and dogmas of the past, then critique, with its emphasis on reason and the autonomy of judgment, has been the lynchpin of modernity.
Today, however, the critical project shows signs of exhaustion. We are beginning to realize that being right is useless, now that everyone can lay claim to the same power as we can. The democratization of reason, proceeding alongside the development of critique through modernity, has produced a stalemate: for every judgment that we pronounce, there is another opposing one – with grounds as solid as our own, and the same right to assert itself. Rather than elevating us above the world, critique has mired us in an impasse of claim and counter-claim.
The age of critique is now over, argues Laurent de Sutter, and in its place we need to develop a postcritical form of thinking, one he calls “superweak,” a form of thinking based not on establishing grounds, pronouncing judgment, and determining duty, but on welcoming possibility, exploring what the world has to offer, and cultivating a vertiginous appreciation for moving within a world less grounded and less bounded by the terms of critical reason.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of tables and figures
Introduction
Kratè
1. A brief encounter at Ichij -ji
2. The posture of Musashi
3. A surplus of strength
4. Critique and modernity
5. Reason: being right
6. Virality of critique
7. Five weaknesses
8. We are the detritus
9. Kant fatigue
10. Beyond
Book I
Phusis
11. What is critique?
12. Subjects with an attitude
13. Being, at the limit
14. Modes of life
15. For an ethics of the dandy
16. Incorporating the aesthetic
17. Giudizio and gusto
18. Logic of incarnation
19. The ordeal of judgment
20. Of defiance
21. The time of reflection
22. Two forms of reason
23. Haptics of merit
24. Mirror, mirror, on the wall
25. Epistémè aisthètikè
26. What matters
27. To judge well
28. The form of the limits
29. First antinomy of critique
30. The imperative of reason
31. How to overcome philosophy
32. History of intussusception
33. Hand to hand, body to body
34. Distrust…
35. The life and death of superheroes
36. Every human being is an artist
37. Punk philosophy
38. Beyond place
39. The precarious of all lands
40. Kryptonite hypothesis
41. Censure, my fine care
42. Tetsugaku and bimyôgaku
43. What is kokoro?
44. Critique against critique
45. Too disgusted
46. Portrait of No-Face
47. Chez Panisse
48. Coprology of critique
49. Dancing in your head
50. Proposals for a poetics of excarnation
Book II
Archè
51. Architectonics of thought
52. A question of principles
53. The right to power
54. What comes from below
55. Cosmic anarchy
56. Surveilling the world
57. Now, dig!
58. One must make distinctions
59. Back to the basement one started from
60. For a decomposed architecture
61. A world of constraints
62. Of deconstruction
63. The shithouse stage of design
64. Functionalism of critique
65. To be and to be duty-bound
66. Phantoms against phantoms
67. Kindly pay in advance
68. Freemasonry & Co.
69. Spirit, are you there?
70. Just anything
71. Who’s to blame
72. Ever more
73. Green cabbage and cabbage green, or, Six of one, half dozen of the other
74. Second antinomy of critique
75. Ergründen and Abgründen
76. Running out of steam
77. Ground zero
78. Factishes of all lands…
79. This is inadmissible
80. Elements of anarchic cosmology
81. To infinitize again
82. Adieu to philosophy
83. The weather takes a turn for the worse
84. Delete as appropriate
85. Method of the madness
86. Quite presumed
87. The Blade
88. Each time unique, the beginning of the world
89. Less than nothing, more than everything
90. Maximalist manifesto
Book III
Nomos
91. I think, therefore I judge
92. From dikazein to krinein
93. Putting order into effect
94. The institution of crisis
95. Politics of philosophy
96. Servants of the nomos
97. To death!
98. Cui bono
99. Inquisition everywhere, justice nowhere
100. On the guarantee
101. Green cabbage and cabbage green, or, Six of one, half dozen of the other (2)
102. Critique of prejudicial reason
103. The Treaty of Osnabrück
104. The origins of geometry
105. Force of rule
106. At the limit
107. Kant surveyor
108. Necessity of the Bestimmung
109. Third antinomy of critique
110. What is necessary is necessary
111. Lethal Weapon
112. Dikaian krisis krinate
113. Listen to the logos
114. Cosmic shortcut
115. Behind the truth
116. The engineering of Creation
117. Onward and upward!
118. After the law
119. One does not know what one can do
120. Ever new
121. Introduction to jurifuturism
122. Protasis and apodosis
123. Post-truth
124. To work!
125. Everything you always wanted to know about modernity, but were afraid to ask
126. How does one evolve in chaos?
127. Kekkai
128. On the other side
129. Cosmopoetics and transnodality
130. Postface to transgression
Book IV
Gramma
131. Alas!
132. Ludology of reality
133. Ow, ow, ow!
134. The madman and the poet
135. From the book to the Book
136. Controversy surrounding faith
137. There is only the outside of text
138. Including the unknowable
139. What one cannot talk about, one talks about all the same
140. The method of detection
141. All culpable
142. Redemption!
143. For an ugly realism
144. Thanatography
145. The shittiness of things
146. Semiology of irenicism
147. All language is fascist
148. There is no outside of text
149. Fourth antinomy of critique
150. To abjure language
151. Cherchez la fiction! Seek the fiction!
152. Silence, it’s talking
153. Weird realism 2.0
154. It’s implausible!
155. From top to bottom
156. Uncertainties and inconsistencies
157. A little further to the east
158. Water Margin
159. A history without end
160. Comic of lucidity
161. Anti-vitalism
162. Toward objectality
163. An encounter
164. To become poem
165. Of life in the fore-worlds
166. Still and always
167. In praise of space opera
168. More than anything
169. Assholes & Co.
170. Infrastructuralism redux
Book V
Epistémè
171. Politics of the boudoir
172. Libido sciendi
173. The art of striptease
174. Mehr Licht!
175. Program for a policing of the hole
176. You won’t fool me there
177. Porn rationalism
178. On cretinism as a postulate
179. Algorithmic anthropology
180. The solitude of reason
181. Cherchez la forme! Seek the form!
182. The product of a minus and a minus is a plus
183. What is an argument?
184. Theory of the therefore
185. Introduction to the catu ko i
186. How it works
187. Dialetheic manifesto
188. Fifth antinomy of critique
189. The non-duped err
190. Postcritique 1.0
191. Prolegomena to general semantics
192. For a quantum thought
193. Beyond reality
194. What the gods do
195. May be
196. Brrrr!
197. Menace contra menace
198. Mobilis in mobile
199. Questions of scale
200. Anything goes
201. To stir shit up
202. Il pensiero debole, or, weak thought
203. Return to…
204. In praise of departure
205. What if… ?
206. It’s too easy
207. The coming infrastructuralism
208. Another chaos is possible
209. Who cares
210. Royal flush
Epilogue
Sophia
211. A wooden sword
212. Once critique, always critique
213. In the zone
214. Everything happens
215. Toward a new obscurantism
216. Take a chance, give it a try
217. So that was it!
218. Acceleration!
219. To be done with the assholes
220.
Acknowledgments
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