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Critique is the critique of power

2025/5/21
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Claire Laurier-Decoteau
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Monika Krause
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Nick Couldry
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Thomas Scheffer
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Claire Laurier-Decoteau: 为了拒绝被统治，我们需要批判知识权力纽带，解释导致特朗普崛起的各种因素。福柯认为，批判是自愿不服从的艺术，旨在确保主体在真理政治中的深度屈服。批判需要一种疏远行为，迫使我们所处的思想领域失去其熟悉感，并分析加诸于我们的限制，尝试超越它们。塔辛认为，批判有两种主要策略：马克思主义批判旨在揭示意识形态的面纱，而谱系学批判旨在揭示特定权力结构、话语和知识系统如何成为可能。批判理论家努力揭示主导意识形态力量与历史政治经济形态之间的矛盾。辩证批判通过提供对实际政治和经济状况的历史叙述来揭示动态意识形态中提供的整体性。权力是关系性的和竞争性的，抵抗也是批判，是一种化学催化剂，可以揭示通过策略对抗的权力关系。谱系学批判关注多种原因和异质性构成，使我们能够辨别支配言语、真理和主体性可能性的装置的轮廓和构成。为了批判，我们必须使赋予我们主体性、允许我们话语并为我们提供真理方向的熟悉秩序变得陌生。批判理论家敦促我们识别意识形态可能采取的特定统治形式，并考虑资本主义逻辑、不平等和暴力形式。我结合了马克思主义对资本主义积累依赖和利用生命和劳动差异性侵犯的关注，以及谱系学对多样性、种族生命政治、政府和种族政权以及被压迫知识的关注。索马里难民母亲通过复杂的官僚和种族主义国家系统，以及她们作为后殖民主体对身体治疗的独特方法，形成了对自闭症的新解释。在芝加哥应对COVID-19种族影响的政策中，受访者批判了政府将COVID-19视为短暂危机，而低收入人群则将其视为长期紧急情况的加速。

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This chapter explores the multifaceted concept of critique, particularly its relationship with power. It examines various perspectives, including those of Foucault and critical theorists, to understand how critique unveils and challenges power structures and knowledge systems. Real-world examples illustrate how critique emerges from experiences of marginalization and oppression.
  • Critique is defined as the art of not being governed, challenging power-knowledge regimes.
  • Two main strategies of critique are identified: exposing false knowledge (Marxist) and uncovering regimes of truth (genealogical).
  • Real-world examples from ethnographies of Somali refugee mothers and Chicagoans during COVID-19 demonstrate how critique emerges from experiences of marginalization and challenges dominant power structures.

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Contributor(s): Professor Nick Couldry, Professor Claire Laurier Decoteau, Professor Monika Krause, Professor Thomas Scheffer | This event uses a debate format to engage with the meanings of the concept of critique, which has been central to core traditions in the humanities and the social sciences. The event will bring together sociologists from a range of traditions to discuss whether critique can be equated with the critique of power in the analysis of the social world. Inspired by the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, the speakers have been asked to speak in favour of or in opposition a set motion. Claire Decoteau and Nick Couldry will speak in favour, while Thomas Scheffer and Monika Krause will speak in opposition.