Critique: The Stakes of Form
In: Critical Stances
Critique: The Stakes of Form -- An Introduction to "The Stakes of Form -- How to Do Materialistic Dialectics with Words? Adorno and the Resistance of Presentation -- Expression and Suffering -- Semblance and Mimesis (Notes on an Enigmatic Passage in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory) -- Marx, Real Abstraction, and the Question of Form -- Forms of Critique, Modes of Combat -- "To Arlene on Wings of Love": Shared Forms of Life, Art, and Writing -- Decorating Charleston Farmhouse: Bloomsbury's Experiments in Forms of Life, Work, and Art -- Feedback Systems: Artwriting as Critique? -- On Slowing Down and Not Being Shy. A Conversation -- The Horse's Eye -- Editing as the Practice of Criticism -- ECZEMA! -- Roland Barthes' Critical Writing from the Materials of Cy Twombly-and the Criticism of Form in the Early Texts of Lukács and Benjamin -- Gesture and Citability: Theater as Critical Praxis -- The Stakes of the Stage: Piscator's Scenography as a Practice of Critique and Benjamin's Discontent with the "Zeittheater" -- Why Streets Are No Longer Paved with Theater Gold: Critique and Stage Form(s) -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors.