Critique and the Digital
Published on 18. December 2020
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296 pages
978-3-0358-0242-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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Erich Hörl ist Professor fu¨r Medienkultur und Medienphilosophie an
der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Er arbeitet an einer allgemeinen
Ökologie, der Kritik der Kybernetisierung aller Existenzformen und
einer kritischen Theorie der Environmentalität sowie an einer Faszinationsgeschichte
von Nicht-Modernität. Er publiziert international zur
Geschichte, den Problemen und Herausforderungen der gegenwärtigen
technologischen Bedingung. Zu seinen Publikationen zählen
u.a.: Sacred Channels: On the Archaic Illusion of Communication, mit
einem Vorwort von Jean-Luc Nancy (2018); General
Ecology. The New Ecological Paradigm (Hg., 2017); »Die Ökologisierung des Denkens« (Zeitschrift
fu¨r Medienwissenschaft, 2016); »A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of
Cyberneticization and General Ecology« (in: The Whole Earth. California
and the Disappearance of the Outside, 2013); Die technologische Bedingung. Beiträge
zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt ( 2011, Hg.)
und Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte
der Kybernetik (2008, Hg. mit Michael Hagner).
Lotte Warnsholdt is Junior Fellow at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna and a doctoral candidate in the DFG research training group "Cultures of Critique" at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her research is interested in media history, memory studies and forms of critical practices. In her doctoral project she examines the genealogy of predictive media and asks the question of how prediction challenges the conditions of the modern project of critique. She has co-edited the anthology Weiterschreiben. Anschlüsse an Rebecca Ardners »Affirmation und Negation als Figuren der Kritik« (ed., Judith Sieber, Marius Hanft) (Hamburg: Katzenberg, 2020) and, together with Liza Mattutat and Heiko Stubenrauch co-authored "Is Code Law? Kritik in Zeiten algorithmischer Gouvernementalität", Kritik in Digitalen Kulturen, ed. Laura Hille, Daniela Wentz (Lüneburg: Meson, 2020 (forthcoming)).
Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a research assistant/doctoral candidate in the DFG research training group "Cultures of Critique" at Leuphana University Lüneburg where she prepares her thesis on Édouard Glissant and Cybernetics. In 2013 she co-organized the annual conference of the German Society for Media Studies and has also been working for the chair of History and Epistemology of Media since then. From October 2018 until May 2019 she was a doctoral Fellow at the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University, Montréal. In June 2019 she organized the inaugural Stanford Leuphana Summer Academy on Media Studies. Areas of interest include: media (and) technology, black studies, black feminist and critical race theory, and political thoughts and practices.
Content
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Introduction
(Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Lotte Warnsholdt)
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74
The Critique of Data, or Towards a Phenomenotechnics of Algorithmic Culture
(Mark B. N. Hansen)
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108
Artificial Critique
(Luciana Parisi)
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146
Critique of Environmentality: On the World-Wide Axiomatics of Environmentalitarian Time
(Erich Hörl)
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184
Crisis-Unrest-Common Sense: Melanie Gilligan, Critique, and the Cultural Logic of Environmentalization
(Holger Kuhn)
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204
"Posthuman Documentary?" Speculation and Critique in Hito Steyerl's "Factory of the Sun"
(Ying Sze Pek)
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228
The Grime of Critique
(Lotte Warnsholdt)
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248
The Organizational A Priori: Critique of the Digital as Critique of Organization
(Timon Beyes)
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264
Presentism: Digital Cultures and the Legacy of Media Critique
(Claus Pias)
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290
As We May Have Thought: How Memory Gets Exteriorized Through Media Technologies and What That Means for Critique in Digital Cultures
(Clemens Apprich)