"The State of Critique in the Times of Accellerationism"

Just finished the paper onthe state of critique that has been published in the Echo Gone Wrong magazine. See the abstract below and this is the link to the full text.

The paper addresses a problem of dismissal in relation to the critical engagements with the contemporary culture. It will be argued that in the hyper-networked and post-institutional world critique is often subjected to the demand to be ‘constructive’—a violent gesture according to which critique either fails to fulfil this demand and becomes dismissed and marginalised, or it embraces the given conditions and becomes dependent on them thus ceasing to be ‘critical’ in the strict sense of the word. Instead of being critical of the complex conditioning beyond the new manifestations of accellerating capitalism, critique either accepts the demonisation and marginalisation, or embraces the given state of events as something that is ‘uncriticisable.’ Thus critique faces a challenge of finding its voice in the world where all our practices—both subversive and recreational—are no longer immune to capitalisation. I will insist that a deconstructive approach provides us with a chance to escape the violent dichotomy of victim/immune system and embrace the autoimmunity of everything that contemporary culture renders as ‘pure’ and ‘necessary’—i.e., immune from thinking, reflection, and critique.