[D66] How do we recognize strong critique?

[J.N.]

http://materializmidialektik.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/liv.pdf

ABSTRACT:
Partially following Gilles Deleuze, I articulate six criteria for a
strong
variety of critique: one which affirms the power of thought in going all
the way to the limit of existing societies, situations, institutions and
practices. The form of this strong critique is a complex unity of thought
and life that can be indicated, as I argue, on the basis of a twofold
condition: a contemporary repetition of the classical structuralism
that Deleuze develops in the 1967 article “How do we recognize
structuralism?” and a formally based reflection on the properly
infinite
dimension of structure and sense. I develop the implications of this
strong critique under contemporary conditions, distinguishing it
from various alternative current forms of sociopolitical critique and
non-critique. In particular I argue that through its articulation of the
consequences of constitutive paradox, the structure of the situationally
undecidable, and the ineffectivity characteristic of the constitution of
sense, strong critique offers appropriate forms of response in thought
and action to the structural problems and antagonisms characteristic of
contemporary global capitalism.

Keywords:
Critique, Deleuze, infinite, paradoxico-critical, undecidable, ineffective