Technologies of Critique

Critique--a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world--is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such capture. Building on Chile's history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Bruno Latour, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.

Author: Willy Thayer
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780823286737

About the Author
Willy Thayer (Author)
Willy Thayer is a prominent a prominent Chilean philosopher, art critic, and media theorist. He is Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, where he founded the Program in Critical Thought, and Professor of Film Theory at Universidad de Chile, in Santiago. He has written many books in Spanish and has curated gallery exhibits and shows in Europe and Latin America. He has held visiting professorships at Duke Unviersity, Yale University, UNAM (Mexico), and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

John Kraniauskas (Translator)
John Kraniauskas is Professor of Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His most recent books are Políticas culturales: acumulación, desarrollo y crítica cultural (FLACSO) and Capitalism and its Discontents: Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture (University of Wales Press). He is the translator and editor of Carlos Monsiváis's Mexican Postcards (Verso).