{"id":26518,"date":"2019-08-19T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=26518"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:40:25","slug":"entry-3-what-criticism-by-marti-peran-feb-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/entry-3-what-criticism-by-marti-peran-feb-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry #3: \u201cWhat Criticism?\u201d by Mart\u00ed Peran (Feb 2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trenchant rumbling in <a href=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/que-critica\/\">Mart\u00ed Peran\u2019s \u201cWhat Criticism?\u201d<\/a> might remind one of Marx\u2019s provocation, \u201cFor a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing.\u201d In both cases, the urgent moment of impasse presents the opening onto <em>utopia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Aesthetic experience today offers the prevailing \u201cmodel of existence\u201d \u2013 the \u201cculture industry,\u201d to use the old-fashioned term \u2013 in which \u201cculture\u201d becomes the production line and shopping mall of aesthetic goods and services. But, as Peran indicates, the aesthetic is an experience built on buyer\u2019s remorse. Enjoyment, as the psychoanalysts like to point out, is already a symptomatic defense against its own beyond. Following the thread of Peran\u2019s text, one could argue that the aesthetic experience \u2013 as the determinate negation of the existing \u2013 today functions as a defense against the <em>critical spirit\u00a0<\/em>upon which the aesthetic dimension as such is based.<\/p>\n<p>Peran\u2019s polemic targets criticism today for its proportional investment in pluralism and relativism, as a mode of analysis and evaluation based on a passion for mere tolerance. Since art criticism is addressed to the aesthetic <em>par excellence<\/em>\u2013 namely, art \u2013 art criticism becomes the worthiest of targets. Peran distinguishes his call for the critical spirit from \u201cthe absurd accumulation of exquisite knowledge\u201d \u2013 to be sure, a nonchalant accumulation of incompatible ideas. Rather, criticism should, Peran writes, articulate \u201ceffective instruction on: the absence of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cabsence of truth\u201d is no doubt a call to reject the merely tolerant mind that neutralizes controversy. But the phrase also suggests a complementary meaning: the stipulation of truth as <em>categorically absent<\/em>. Surely, such a proposition presents a situation for which we are never \u201csufficiently equipped and prepared.\u201d Pluralism reassures by simultaneously positivizing, relativizing, and reifying truth. By contrast, the utopic space of public discourse may in fact function as a space of absence, not merely because the truth must be revealed and directly told, nor because the space presents a neutral and empty common ground where interlocutors freely come and go choosing their own ideological adventure. The space of public discourse becomes a space of absence precisely because the truth is fundamentally an object and site\u00a0<em>of contest<\/em>, wherein the stakes must be argued in the context of contradiction and controversy. Perhaps the proper image of truth here approaches Adorno\u2019s prescription: \u201cThe splinter in the eye is the best magnifying glass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trenchant rumbling in Mart\u00ed Peran\u2019s \u201cWhat Criticism?\u201d might remind one of Marx\u2019s provocation, \u201cFor a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing.\u201d In both cases, the urgent moment of impasse presents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":26520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6008],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6584],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Entry #3: \u201cWhat Criticism?\u201d by Mart\u00ed Peran (Feb 2006) &#8211; 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