Introduction: Sixteen and a Half Questions on “Being Critical”

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1. See, for example, Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988). It is well-known that Slavoj žižek makes this point often in his polemics against Cultural Studies as he understands them.

2. As something indivisible, an individual, I wish to emphasize, must be first individuated before he or she can be individualized. Individuation and individualization are two distinct, though connected, processes in individual formation. This is a point Bernard Stiegler emphasizes; see his Acting Out (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 76–78.

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Briankle G. Chang

Briankle G. Chang is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts