Contemporary Cultural Critique, Urban Memory and the Displacement of Originary Violence.

• Název česky: Současná kulturní kritika, urbánní pamět a vymístění původního násilý
• Autoři: SZALÓ Csaba
• Rok publikování: 2013
• Druh: Konferenční abstrakty
• Popis: In the same year as the big oil crisis of the mid 1970’s emerged as an extension of Yom Kippur War, a book titled Legitimationsprobleme in Spatkapitalismus was published in West Germany. Habermas' book became one of the best attempts to interpret the character of crisis in contemporary societies. The inspiration we can gain from Habermas' theory of legitimation crisis today consists in the importance of meaning for grasping sociologically the crisis. As in the 1970's we have to move beyond an image of a temporary breakdown of a machine like economic- political system which can be repaired by experts. Our crisis is rooted in deeper than financially and administratively mediated interactions. Simply, one has to take into consideration the meaningfulness of these interaction as well as the cultural preconditions of this meaningfulness. Following this theoretical logic I propose to develop an understanding of crisis by focusing on contemporary forms of cultural critique, especially in the field of urban memory. Today’s cultural critique has its origins in the critical spirit of the 1970s, particularly in its anti-reductionist and anti-technocratic ideals. However this critical spirit contained dilemmas over a political sensibility that emerged in the 1950s. When Koselleck’s book Kritik und Krise was published, the historical sense of time was still marked with the idea of the constitutive role of political violence. Thus, to understand contemporary forms of cultural critique, we have to take into consideration the moral delegitimisation of the idea of “originary violence” as a way out of societal crisis.