Symptoms of the Planetary Condition : A Critical Vocabulary

• Other Authors: Bunz, Mercedes (Editor), Mara Kaiser, Birgit (Editor), Thiele, Kathrin (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Published: meson press 2017
• Subjects: Philosophy; Critical Theory; Humanities; Critique; Politics; Technology; Globalization; Literature
• Online Access: Get fulltext
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)
• ISBN: 018
• Access: Open Access

This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism; climate change and neoliberalism? Think we must! To get to the symptoms; the book's 38 terms ranging from affect and affirmation to world and work provide the reader with a critical toolbox to be continued. Negativity; judgment and opposition as modes of critique have run out of steam. Critique as an attitude and a manner of enquiry has not.