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 to critique. Although the specific practice form of critique can seem to be a metaor para-practice, it is always innately part of the iterative course of practices. Thus, critique does not possess a practice external status; the specific reflexivity of critical practice does not contradict its mundanity and ubiquity. Certain branches of praxeology even go so far as to view critique as a fundamental characteristic of all practice. Deviance in the repetition, which practices exhibit following previous practices, is then viewed as the momentary spark of critique. Such a conception of critique as an unspecific property of practices can, in turn, be subject to critique. If critique is inherently part of all practice, what kind of critique conception applies to practices?