Sentences with phrase «negative social critique»

That's why negative social critique — what Adorno called «the unalleviated consciousness of negativity» — isn't on my view a simple miserabilism, it's actually essential to keeping issues of oppression and disempowerment alive in democratic theory.

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This claim seems to me to be far more philosophically penetrating, and more disturbing, than the often - heard but more piecemeal criticisms of modern technology's negative environmental, economic, or social - political consequences, or even the critique of present uses of technology as «inhumane» or contrary to basic human values.