Material Practice as a Form of Critique

Lecture series winter semester 2016/17 Critique of Practice – Practice of Critique

From a praxeological point of view, subjects are constituted in the accomplishment of practices. Thus, on this view, critique can be conceived as a specific transformative practice of extant practices. It intervenes in and disrupts the current workings of practices in order to divert, re-synchronize, or even stop them. Therefore, moments of pause, deviance, and reconfiguration lend themselves t...

Critique of Novel/ Precedence of Form to Content: Review of the Book Thirst: Mehdi Ebrahimi Lame

Critique of Novel/ The Reality at the Altar of Power: A review of Dear Mim as metafiction, Mahshad Shahbazi

As a type of writing originating in postmodernism, metafiction by breaking fictional frameworks and distorting boundaries of imagination and reality tries to reveal the artificial nature of reality and its constructedness in relation to the dominant power discourses. Thus, every playful chaos in the postmodern novel form stems from the depths of critical thinking in postmodernist skepticism abo...

Chlkowski’s Notion of Shia Mourning Rituals A Critique of Chlkowski`s Notion in the Collection of ‘Shi’ism

The present paper is critique of the article “Popular Shi’i Mourning Rituals” (Article 44) from Shi’ism collection written by Dr. Chlkowski. Although his viewpoint upon Shi’i mourning rituals is written impartially, like the viewpoint of a lot of orientalists it has some deficiencies. With a descriptive statement, he explains the mourning rituals in different Shiite regions around the world. Hi...

An Ontological Critique of Critical Geopolitics in Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Simon Dalby

Introduction: Philosophical research in the study of political geography in Iran is very limited. Among the existing cases, we encounter a kind of theoretical confusion that results from a lack of sufficient scientific and philosophical accuracy. Therefore, this study seeks to address the critical philosophical geopolitical critique in the writings of Ó Tuathail and Dalby by pointing out the ne...