K&K - Kultur og Klasse https://tidsskrift.dk/kok <div id="focusAndScope"> <h3>Fokus og område</h3> <p><em>K&amp;K – Kultur og Klasse</em> er et humanistisk, fagfællebedømt forskningstidsskrift. Tidsskriftet bringer artikler om aktuelle teoretiske og analytiske problemstillinger indenfor alle områder af humaniora: Litteratur, billedkunst, teater, film, musik, medier og kulturstudier.</p> <p>De fleste numre af <em>K&amp;K </em>er tilrettelagt som temanumre, gerne med fokus på aktuelle tvær- og kulturfaglige emner af kultur- eller kønspolitisk relevans. Temanumre annonceres som åbne kald og redigeres af den faste redaktion, evt. i samarbejde med specialister indenfor det pågældende område.</p> <p><em>K&amp;K </em>modtager også gerne uopfordrede artikler udenfor tema. Endvidere indeholder det en kritisk anmeldersektion om væsentlige nordiske bogudgivelser inden for de nævnte områder.</p> <p>Artikler kan skrives på dansk, svensk eller norsk. <em>K&amp;K </em>bringer desuden vægtige internationale artikler eller boguddrag i nordisk oversættelse med henblik på at berige den nordiske akademiske kultur.</p> <p>Redaktionen er sammensat af førende forskere fra de nordiske lande.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Tidsskriftshistorik</h3> <p>Tidsskriftet <em>K&amp;K – Kultur og Klasse </em>er et af Danmarks ældste humanistiske forskningstidsskrifter. Det har eksisteret siden 1967 og udkom de første år under navnet <em>Poetik. Tidsskrift for æstetik og litteraturvidenskab. </em> Ved lanceringen i 1967 blev der lagt vægt på, at tidsskriftet ikke var for ”intellektuelle tandlæger”, men at det både skulle have en kritisk dagsorden <em>og</em> skulle formidle ny international forskning. Siden lanceringen har forskning og kritik gået hånd i hånd. Fra og med nummer 29, 1974 skiftede tidsskriftet navn til <em>Kultur &amp; Klasse</em>, og fra dobbeltnummeret 65/66, 1989 til akronymet <em>K&amp;K –</em> en titel, tidsskriftet har beholdt og som også i dag viser tidsskriftets interesse i emner med samfundsmæssig relevans. Tidsskriftet har desuden bevaret en international og tværfaglig, forskningsorienteret profil og lægger vægt på at lancere og formidle nye videnskabelige tendenser inden for kulturforskningen.</p> <p>I mange år udkom tidsskriftet på Forlaget Medusa. Fra 2010 – 2013 udkom K&amp;K på Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Siden 2014 er tidsskriftet hovedsageligt udkommet elektronisk.</p> </div> The Editorial Board da-DK K&K - Kultur og Klasse 0905-6998 <p>Tidsskriftet følger dansk ophavsret.</p> Det kritiske subjekt https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145761 Mikkel Bolt Ann-Sofie Lönngren Jonas Ross Kjærgård Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 1 12 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145761 Kritik efter postkolonialiteten https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145762 <p>How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today’s era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at “deconstructing” Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In <em>Refashioning Futures</em>, he proposes a <em>strategic</em> practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted.</p> David Scott Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 13 36 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145762 Et kritisk posthumant subjekt? https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145763 <p>This paper studies a discussion about <em>posthumanism</em> between the two influential feminist philosophers Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway in the journal, <em>Theory, Culture &amp; Society</em> 23, no. 7-8 in 2006. In the journal Braidotti describes Haraway’s thinking as “high posthumanism”, while Haraway, interviewed in the journal, on the other hand is very critical of the term. She prefers thinking with other terms such as <em>cyborgs, companion species or the Chthulucene</em>. With the starting point in this historical discussion, the paper traces it into Braidotti’s recent book <em>Posthuman Feminism</em> (2021) and Haraway’s <em>Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene</em> (2016). A central concern in the discussion is the critical subject: How can the critical subject be understood and operate in a posthumanist framework? Can there be critical potentials in more-than-human positions and perspectives? How to think critical subjectivity as relational with other species and the material world? Based on these questions, the paper investigates posthuman feminism through more-than-human perspectives on the critical subject.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 37 54 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145763 Carla Lonzi och krisens kritik 1969-1970 https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145764 <p>Departing from the Italian critic, art historian, and feminist Carla Lonzi’s essay ”La critica è potere” (Critique is power) from 1970, this article discusses a crisis immanent to the concepts of art and history that dominated the late 1960s Italy. In line with Lonzi’s argumentation, this crisis resulted in what the communist Massimo Cacciari described as ”negative thinking” in 1969, and what Lonzi in her essay describes as a ”critique of the crisis”. Beyond a universal consciousness and its presupposed identities, as they were reproduced within the party form and at academic institutions during this period, artists, workers, and intellectuals turned away from formal organization, and to informal, collective practices. The separatist, decentralized and anti-authoritarian network Rivolta Femminile, founded by Lonzi in 1970, show how the subjects of crisis and critique emerge from a patriarchal and colonial regime of sexual repression.</p> Frida Sandström Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 55 86 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145764 ”Jag är bara här” https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145765 <p>The article takes as its starting point Leo Tolstoy’s character Pierre Bezukhov. His passive presence at the battle of Borodino, in Tolstoy’s <em>War and Peace</em>, is contrasted with today’s climate activism, exemplified by the Swedish human ecologist Andreas Malm. In his book <em>How to Blow up a Pipeline</em>, Malm argues that global warming forces scientists and scholars to become activists, and activists to turn to violence. This analysis, the article argues, is based on a simplistic notion of action (”one acts or one does not”) and a strong conviction of being right. If this certitude is problematic, it is also typical of our time. Where, then, does this tendency to simplify the complicated, and replace all uncertainty with sureness, come from? One answer is that activism requires determination, which in its turn presupposes access to the truth. Another explanation lies in the binary operations of the digital media we all rely upon. At the most basic level, these operations exclude all approximation, all nuances, all doubt: the options are one or zero. Against this background, it becomes crucial to defend a research practice that refrains from simplifications. In Sloterdijk, the article finds an argument for interrupting the affective impulses that reach us constantly. From Popper, it fetches an understanding of research as an event. Via Marx’s well-known formulation that philosophers must change the world, not just interpret it, the text then moves to Adorno’s defense of theoretical thinking. The question is, however, whether critical theory has any edge left. Has it not just become a part of the academic apparatus it once reacted against? The article finds an answer in Lyotard, and his idea of a theoretical apathy. This idea reminds a lot of the starting point of the article: Pierre Bezukhov’s comic but clear-sighted passivity on the battlefield.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> Sven Anders Johansson Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 87 108 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145765 Efter det kritiske subjekt https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145766 <p>The article revisits the question of the critical subject through a reading of Jacques Rancière and Fred Moten. It starts out by giving an account of a longer historical trajectory where the notions of critique and revolution have run into the ground. David Scott’s nuanced analysis of the shift from an anticolonial romantic revolutionary perspective to a tragic postcolonial stance is both affirmed and challenged. Affirmed in so far as Scott’s analysis is embedded in a broader historical context, challenged by the presentation of two attempts to think the notion of a critical subject after the disappearance of a previous notion of an antisystemic subject. The second half of the article is a discussion of Rancière’s notion of a political subjectivation that is not based on pre-existing identities but is a break with the logic of a functionalist society. Followed by a discussion of Moten’s concept of Blackness that follows the Afro-Pessimist reading of the radical dispossession of Blacks but turn it into a possibility for a different kind of community.</p> Mikkel Bolt Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 109 136 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145766 Et anti-fascistisk manifest https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/145767 <p>Anmeldelse af:</p> <p>Judith Butler:<br><em>Who’s afraid of gender?</em></p> <p>Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024</p> Dag Heede Copyright (c) 2024 Forfatterne og tidsskrift (K&K - Kultur og Klasse) 2024-05-28 2024-05-28 52 137 137 144 10.7146/kok.v52i137.145767