Vol. 7 No. 1 (2023): Critique, Postcritique and the Present Conjuncture

Edited by Sean Phelan, Simon Dawes and Pieter Maeseele

Cover design: Jane Birkin & Alexandra Robert

Published: 2023-09-21

Special Issue Introduction
Critique, Postcritique and the Present Conjuncture

Sean Phelan, Simon Dawes, Pieter Maeseele

01-26

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This is Not a Critique
Reactionary Digital Politics in the Age of Ideological Entrepreneurship

Alan Finlayson

27-48

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Critical Inversion
From Social to Techno - and Left to Right?

François Cusset

49-62

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Critique is Dead – Long Live Critique
A response to Finlayson and Cusset

Natalie Fenton

63-74

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Who? How and How Much? When and Where? On Why We Need to Be Pragmatic about Critique

Robert Porter, Iain MacKenzie

75-98

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What if the Problem Is that There Is too much Critique?

Jonjo Brady

99-112

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Everyone’s a Critic (So What Comes Next?)

Nicholas Holm

113-124

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Reading in Dark Times
Toward a Queer Politics of Repair

Irina Kalinka

125-146

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Contradictory Subjects
Stuart Hall and the Politics of Mutual Vulnerability

Phoebe Braithwaite

147-170

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Postcritical Sensibilities for the Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kelly Diaz, Adetobi Moses, Jing Wang, Guobin Yang

171-200

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Proposing a Postcritical AI Literacy
Why We Should Worry Less about Algorithmic Transparency and More about Citizen Empowerment

Eugenia Stamboliev

201-232

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The Turn towards New Criticalities in the Study of Media, Communication and Journalism

Göran Svensson

233-256

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Where’s the Critique? On the Dearth of Critical Theory in German Communication Research

Mandy Tröger, Marlen van den Ecker

257-276

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Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized University

Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany, Milly Williamson

277-298

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Critical Academy under Attack
A Panel Discussion

Gavan Titley, Sahana Udupa, Éric Fassin, Diana Mulinari

299-328

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Postcritique
Past Influences and Present Conjunctures

Rita Felski

329-342

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Introduction