Sa'ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique"
English | 2020 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 1503612392, 1503609944 | PDF | 2,6 mb

Isabelle Graw, "The Value of Critique: Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour "
English | ISBN: 3593510103 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Value of Critique casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art-critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor of evaluation, which advocates alternate modes of judgment aimed at finding the intrinsic "value" of a given work rather than picking apart its intentions and relative success. This book's contributors explore the relationship between these two practices, finding that one cannot exist with the other. As soon as a critic decides an object is worthy enough of their interest and time to critique it, they have imbued that object with a certain value. Similarly, theories of value are typically marked by a critical impetus: as much as critique takes part in the construction of evaluations, bestowing something with value can then trigger critiques. Assembling essays from an international array of authors, this book is the first to put value, critique, and artistic labor in conversation with one another, making clear just how closely all three are related.

Paul Mattick, "Theory as Critique: Essays on Capital"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004366563 | PDF | pages: 291 | 1.7 mb

Marc Lombardo, "Critique of Sovereignty: Book I: Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0692282408 | PDF | pages: 115 | 7.6 mb

The Digitalisation of (Inter)Subjectivity: A Psy-critique of the Digital Death Drive By Jan De Vos
2020 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 113805304X | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the responsibility of psychological and neuropsychological perspectives in relation to the digitalisation of inter-subjectivity. It examines how integral their theories and models have been to the development of digital technologies, and by combining theoretical and critical work of leading thinkers, it is a new and highly original perspective on (inter)subjectivity in the digital era. The book engages with artificial intelligence and cybernetics and the work of Alan Turing, Norbert Wiener, Marvin Minsky, Gregory Bateson, and Warren McCulloch to demonstrate how their use of neuropsy-theories persists in contemporary digital culture. The author aims to trace a trajectory from psychologisation to neurologisation, and finally, to digitalisation, to make us question the digital future of humankind in relation to the idea of subjectivity, and the threat of the 'death-drive' inherent to digitality itself. This volume is fascinating reading for students and researchers in the fields of critical psychology, neuroscience, education studies, philosophy, media studies, and other related areas.

Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations By Didier Fassin (editor), Axel Honneth (editor)
2022 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0231204329 | PDF | 3 MB
The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture―a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of―and challenge―our understanding of the many predicaments in which we find ourselves?Instead of diagnosing emergencies, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Contributors inquire into the social production of crisis, evaluating a wide range of cases on five continents through the lenses of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Considering social movements, intellectual engagements, affected communities, and reflexive perspectives, the book foregrounds the perspectives of those most closely involved, bringing out the immediacy of crisis. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention that utterly recasts one of today's most crucial―yet most ambiguous―concepts.

Race Relations: A Critique By Stephen Steinberg
2007 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 0804753261 | PDF | 3 MB
Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses four decades after that revolution. On race, Steinberg argues that even the language of "race relations" obscures the structural basis of racial hierarchy and inequality. Generations of sociologists have unwittingly practiced a "white sociology" that reflects white interests and viewpoints. What happens, he asks, when we foreground the interests and viewpoints of the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of racial oppression? On ethnicity, Steinberg turns the tables and shows that the early sociologists who predicted ultimate assimilation have been vindicated by history. The evidence is overwhelming that the new immigrants, including Asians and most Latinos, are following in the footsteps of past immigrants―footsteps leading into the melting pot. But even today, there is the black exception. The end result is a dual melting pot―one for peoples of African descent and the other for everybody else. Race Relations: A Critique cuts through layers of academic jargon to reveal unsettling truths that call into question the nature and future of American nationality.

English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B073XVDBNX | Duration: 22:39 h | 617 MB
Immanuel Kant / Narrated by Martin Wilson
Published in 1797, the Critique of Pure Reason is considered to be one of the foremost philosophical works ever written. In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant explores the foundation of human knowledge and its limits, as well as man's ability to engage in metaphysics.

English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01GKG0CXW | Duration: 1:35 h | 44 MB
Michael O'Sullivan / Narrated by Macat.com
More than two centuries after its initial publication in 1781, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason remains perhaps the most influential text in modern philosophy. Kant himself claimed his work as a revolutionary document and insisted that it changed the discipline of philosophy as thoroughly as Copernicus had changed astronomy 300 years earlier, when he said the Earth revolved around the sun and not the other way round.

Paintable 2 missing paths + Bonuses + Deep Dive + DP foundations + Critique
English | Tutorial | Size: 58.5GB