.... Postcritics depict critique as a violent hermeneutic practice of excavating a text’s hidden truths. This essay claims that postcritique’s understanding of critical theory is misguided and caricatural. By focusing on key thinkers of the critical tradition, particularly French philosophers, it argues...

... an uncritical embrace of affect as a mode of world-forming within strains of Black critical theory—represented by turns to “the otherwise”—performs a sublimation of Black affect’s radical negativity, as encapsulated in the desire for the End of the World. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020...

...Elisa Russian Abstract In this interview the Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz retraces her relationship to critical theory from the 1980s to the present. The conversation explores the reasons behind Illouz’s initial reluctance to adopt a critical stance toward capitalism, her rediscovery...

... Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Contributors william callison is a doctoral candidate in political science with a designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. michael mark cohen teaches American studies and African American studies...

... of the History Department at the University of California, Irvine. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent books are: What's the Matter with the Internet...

..., ecological, pro-LGBTQ+, feminist, and promigrant struggles. What can a journal of critical theory do in such times? Who speaks here? What change might this speech effect, especially in times of precarity and transition? For more than thirty years some iteration of Qui Parle has existed as a space...

..., posthumanism, animal studies, biopolitics, gender and queer theory, disability stud- ies, political theory, new media, visual culture, and landscape de- sign. This is by no means an exhaustive representation, yet it gives a sense of the far-ranging points of departure and critical modes...

..., Cybernetic Group , 110–30. Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 computation artificial intelligence critical theory media theory subjectivity In early January 1956 Herbert Simon opened his lecture at Carnegie Tech’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration with a shocking...

... Affinity, and has pub- lished articles in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, New Centennial Review, and Discourse. samuel weber is professor of comparative literature, German, and critical theory at Northwestern University and directs the university’s Paris Program...

... espressivo. "Schoenberg's espressivo . . . differs in quali- ty from Romantic expression precisely by means of that intensifi- cation which thinks this espressivo through to its logical conclu- sion."2 Similarly, the model of critical theory that Schoenberg's music affords...

... a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés de La Paz. john e. drabinski teaches in the Department of Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition to over two dozen articles in contemporary critical theory, he has...

... of the dialectics of innovation in Hegel, as providing the crucial formal example for critical theory, so that "capitalist social forma- tions think their art in historical terms, and their history in aesthetic ones" — specifically by means of their epochal character. But what 8 BARRETT WATTEN...

... the literature of the Americas, the literature of the African diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, modernism, philoso- phy, narrative and historiography, and critical theory. Her publications include The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Negritude, Vitalism...

... to the nuclear question. Returning to the fundamental question that Auschwitz gives us, Can l go on living we find that the guilt attached to such a question motivates Adorno's fear of revolutionary praxis and his turn to critical theory as the only acceptable form...

... Theory of Neoliberalism. wendy brown is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also affi liated with the department of rhetoric and the program in critical theo- ry. Her most recent books are Walled States...

... the poem as a constellation of enigmas that begs to be solved; she both grapples with and celebrates the poem’s many knots and slippages. 6 To a degree, the last chapter in Breen’s book engages in a similar critical mode. She deploys her tripartite theory of personification to explicate the strange...

... in intellectual life across the same era. In philosophy and political theory, the ascent of neo- Kantian norma- tivity has conquered not merely a formerly more practically robust liberalism but even the redoubts of a once genuinely oppositional critical theory—though in politics, the human rights...

..., and rational system that continues to erode and destroy many of the traditions of thought, symbolic- aesthetic schemes, and languages—that is, the worlds—that once thrived there, we realize that thought, whatever it is conceived as being (critical theory, philosophy, “humanistic” inquiry, literature...

... the Enlightenment: Towards a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia Uni- versity Press, 2004). Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2003). Sinkwan Cheng, ed., Law, Justice and Power: Between Reason...

... University Press, 2002). Beatrice Hanssen, Critique of Violence : Between Poststructural- ism and Critical Theory (New York: Routledge, 2002). Hannah Higgens, Fluxus Experience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, ed., Women's Writing...