Skimming the surface: critiquing anti-critique.
Contemporary forms of anti-critique take issue with critical distance as the root of critique’s ‘Olympian’ and hierarchical stance. Instead, they constantly call us to get closer: to immerse, network, touch or skim. Against claims to hidden or encrypted meaning to be revealed, they stress we stay as...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 295 - 309 |
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Dec2017
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