Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)

Critical theory upends the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual. These liberal values are an ideology by which dominant groups subjugate other groups. All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maint

rigueur. On a pensé que Kafka instruisait le procès d'une société mal faite ; le drame privé qui nous est conté ne serait que le déguisement d'un conflit social encore insuffisamment analysé. C'est la société qui serait responsable de l'aliénation dont Gregor Samsa est la victime. La Métamorphose serait une caricature de l'économie capitaliste. Cer

His work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.

This strategy – of accepting the incommensurable and the senseless without question – has always been the exemplary technique of sanity as such, but it has a special role to play in late capitalism, that ‘motley painting of everything that ever was’, whose dreaming up and junking of social fictions is nearly as rapid as its production and disposal