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Lyotard and critical practice /

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century's most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us address the crisis currently facing the humanities? The dominant economic discourse sees the humanities as 'low-value,' an irritation at best. Lyotard helps us to think...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bamford, Kiff (Editor, Contributor), Grebowicz, Margret, 1973- (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023].
Subjects:
Lyotard, Jean-François, > 1924-1998.
Humanities > Philosophy.
Arts > Philosophy.
Criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kiff Bamford, Margret Grebowicz
  • Part 1: What resists thinking. Listening to the mute voices of vords : errant pedagogy in the zone, / Derek R. Ford
  • Animal testimony : cetaceans between the interspecies and the inhuman / Margret Grebowicz
  • Under threat : rights and the "thing" / Claire Nouvet
  • A matter of time : color, affect, and the suffering of thought / Georges Van Den Abbeele
  • Lyotard Supplement I. "The Affect-phrase" (from a Supplement to The Differend) / J.-F. Lyotard, translated by Keith Crome
  • "The Other's Rights" / J.-F. Lyotard, translated by Chris Miller and Robert Smith
  • Part 2: Long views and distances. Citing and siting the postmodern : Lyotard and the Black Atlantic / John E. Drabinski
  • Jean-Francois Lyotard's Marxism, in Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Algerian War / Claire Pagès
  • Lyotard and the inhuman mode of production / Bartosz Kuzniarz
  • Lyotard, after us / Yuk Hui
  • Lyotard Supplement II. "What we cannot reach flying we must reach limping" Art Présent : Interview with J.-F. Lyotard by Alain Pomarède, translated by Kiff Bamford and Roger McKeon
  • "Apathy in Theory" / J.-F. Lyotard, translated by Roger McKeon
  • Part 3: Why art practice? Mute communication : drawing the Military-Industrial Complex / Jill Gibbon
  • Critical practice and affirmative aesthetics / Ashley Woodward
  • "hang on tight and spit on me" : Lyotard and contemporary art / Stephen Zepke
  • Uncertain? for sure. limping? certainly : limp thoughts on performance practice / Kiff Bamford
  • Afterward. Lyotard's prescience / Peter Gratton.