...Affects, Politics, Institutions This chapter helps expand our understanding of what critique is. Drawing on Reinhart Koselleck’s work and paying close attention to the political and social situation under which critique emerged as a practice in England around 1700, it argues that critique...

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... This chapter explores affective politics and how the operative logic of preemption becomes self-causing. The process of preemption operationalizes a logic hinging on the conditional. That logic can be summed up in the formula: “could have, would have, just as good as was.” In other words, even...