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In this essay Stengers seems to adhere to what Adorno conceptualizes as what the function of contemporary critique should be: avoiding catastrophes. However, Stengers argues that critique as we have known it since the Enlightenment onwards (as a means to destroy illusions and strive for an age of Rationality, Reason and equality) has lost its potential. Instead, we should look for other ways to throw of the yoke of a form of capitalism that has eliminated all critique by making the Sciences and the State its co-conspirators. We must, therefor, find other ways to make us imagine, think and to, what Stengers calls, invent a new way of paying attention.
Not all arguments are equally clear in my account, but finding new ways of resisting and using different forms of knowledges to indeed resist the coming barbarism in catastrophic times (be it scientific, political or social) indeed seems urgent.
Not all arguments are equally clear in my account, but finding new ways of resisting and using different forms of knowledges to indeed resist the coming barbarism in catastrophic times (be it scientific, political or social) indeed seems urgent.
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