Manchester University Press
3 A feeling for things
Abstract
This chapter shows how the contemporary (re)turn to objects initially serves as a useful corrective to social or political theories that fail to properly engage with the object world. It presents a timely reconstruction of early critical theory's own engagements with the object world via aesthetics and mimesis. The mediating role played by aesthetics is of vital importance for understanding early critical theory's engagement with objects and affects. The chapter also shows how the thought of Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor Adorno contributes to the timely task. Kracauer's work retains a relatively marginal position within studies of critical theory. The chapter then suggests that 'object-oriented ontology' (OOO)/'speculative realism' (SR) goes much beyond a post-critical fantasy, which gleefully jettisons all relationality and criticality for the sake of concocting a 'new', non-human philosophy.
Abstract
This chapter shows how the contemporary (re)turn to objects initially serves as a useful corrective to social or political theories that fail to properly engage with the object world. It presents a timely reconstruction of early critical theory's own engagements with the object world via aesthetics and mimesis. The mediating role played by aesthetics is of vital importance for understanding early critical theory's engagement with objects and affects. The chapter also shows how the thought of Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor Adorno contributes to the timely task. Kracauer's work retains a relatively marginal position within studies of critical theory. The chapter then suggests that 'object-oriented ontology' (OOO)/'speculative realism' (SR) goes much beyond a post-critical fantasy, which gleefully jettisons all relationality and criticality for the sake of concocting a 'new', non-human philosophy.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Thinking through feeling 13
- 2 Feeling blue 42
- 3 A feeling for things 81
- 4 Expectant emotion and the politics of hope 115
- Coda 141
- Bibliography 145
- Index 154
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Thinking through feeling 13
- 2 Feeling blue 42
- 3 A feeling for things 81
- 4 Expectant emotion and the politics of hope 115
- Coda 141
- Bibliography 145
- Index 154
