through europe - criticism http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/108/0 en The art of critique in the age of precarious sensibility http://th-rough.eu/writers/mongini-eng/art-critique-age-precarious-sensibility <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rteright"> <em>Our task is to investigate how ultimately corruption can be forced to cede its control to generation </em></p> <p class="rteright"> Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri</p> <p class="rtejustify"> In a lecture hold in 1978, Michel Foucault addresses the question of critique as follows:</p> <blockquote> <p class="rtejustify"> &ldquo;Critique is the movement by which the subject grasps the right to question truth in relation to the power it gives rise to, and power in relation to the discursive creation of truth. From this point of view, critique becomes the art of deliberate escape from servitude, of reflected non-conformability. In the realm of the game which can be described as the politics of truth, critique would thus function as an act of desubordination.&rdquo; <a href="#1">[1]</a></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/mongini-eng/art-critique-age-precarious-sensibility" target="_blank">read more</a></p> mongini-eng biopolitics criticism Foucault theory English Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:11:49 +0000 Claudia Mongini 107 at http://th-rough.eu