How did critique become a bad object when, only a few decades ago, it seemed to be the cutting edge of cultural practice? This essay notes some of the recent vicissitudes of the critical enterprise, including the charges that it is destructive, cynical, or simply rote. Rather than a dismissive line, “everybody’s a critic” might suggest the arrival of a truly demotic criticism.
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