Sami Khatib, Holger Kuhn, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Beate Söntgen
Critical Stances: An Introduction to
The Stakes of Form
Form of Critique
Heiko Stubenrauch
How to Do Materialistic Dialectics with Words? Adorno and the Resistance of Presentation
Eva Geulen
Expression and Suffering; Semblance and Mimesis
(Notes on an Enigmatic Passage in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory)
Sami Khatib
Marx, Real Abstraction, and the Question of Form
Forms of Work / Forms of Life
Birgit M. Kaiser and
Kathrin Thiele
Forms of Critique, Modes of Combat
Oona Lochner
“To Arlene on Wings of Love”: Shared Forms of Life, Art, and Writing
Beate Söntgen
Decorating Charleston Farmhouse: Bloomsbury's Experiments in Forms of Life,
Work, and Art
Writing Differently / Writing the Self
Isabel Mehl
Feedback Systems: Artwriting as Critique?
On Slowing Down and Not Being Shy
A Conversation Between Chris Kraus and Isabel Mehl
Lynne Tillman
The Horse's Eye
Masha Tupitsyn
Editing as the Practice of Criticism
Maria Fusco
ECZEMA!
Thomas Glaser
Roland Barthes' Critical Writing from the Materials of
Cy Twombly—and the Criticism of Form in the Early Texts of Lukács and Benjamin
The Scene as Form
Bettine Menke
Gesture and Citability: Theater as Critical Praxis
Mimmi Woisnitza
The Stakes of the Stage: Piscator's Scenography as a Practice of Critique and Benjamin's Discontent with the “Zeittheater”
Sebastian Kirsch
Why Streets Are No Longer Paved with Theater Gold: Critique and Stage Form(s)
List of Illustrations
Contributors