Distant Reading, Computational Criticism, and Social Critique: An Interview with Franco Moretti

Critique, Emancipation, Ideology: Marxian Logic of Social Criticism

The aim of this paper is an analysis of Karl Marx’s account of social criticism. The paper opens with a distinction between two models of social criticism, Platonic and Socratic, present in the contemporary political philosophy. The main argument is that despite the contradictory character of the two models of criticism, they are both present in Marx’s account of criticism. Through the concept ...

Rousseau and Criticism Rousseau et la Critique

Dialectic and Social Criticism

other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of v...

and pragmatic social criticism

For pragmatists, the inability to stand outside of the contingencies of human practice does not impede social criticism. However, several pragmatists have argued that Richard Rorty’s position unnecessarily and undesirably circumscribes the scope of social criticism, allowing for nothing more than an appeal to current practices, with no way to challenge or revise them. This article argues agains...

Reading Machines. Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Stephen Ramsay

That's it, a book to wait for in this month. Even you have wanted for long time for releasing this book reading machines toward an algorithmic criticism stephen ramsay; you may not be able to get in some stress. Should you go around and seek fro the book until you really get it? Are you sure? Are you that free? This condition will force you to always end up to get a book. But now, we are coming...