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Trickster, Owlglass Pranks, and Dysfunctional Things. Non-Knowledge and Critique in Digital Cultures

Author(s): Leeker, Martina

Abstract

Non-knowledge and incomprehensibility are, for now, the norm in digital cultures. These states, produced part technologically, part discursively, need particular attention because they form a “politics of non-knowledge.” Against this back-drop, critique is necessary but is at the same time difficult to execute because the possibility of gaining knowledge is fundamentally put into question. A performing “practice of critique,” which tests the contemporary theorization on digital cultures by reflecting it with exaggerated affirmation and identification, is recommended as a method of critique in digital cultures. Its aim is to enable a self-awareness of digital cultures con-cerning the politics of non-knowledge.

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Leeker, Martina: Trickster, Owlglass Pranks, and Dysfunctional Things. Non-Knowledge and Critique in Digital Cultures. In: Bernard, Andreas;Koch, Matthias;Leeker, Martina: Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures. Lüneburg: meson press 2018, S. 53-78. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1641.
@INCOLLECTION{Leeker2018,
 author = {Leeker, Martina},
 title = {Trickster, Owlglass Pranks, and Dysfunctional Things. Non-Knowledge and Critique in Digital Cultures},
 year = 2018,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1641},
 editor = {Bernard, Andreas and Koch, Matthias and Leeker, Martina},
 address = {Lüneburg},
 booktitle = {Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures},
 pages = {53--78},
 publisher = {meson press},
 isbn = {978-3-95796-126-6},
}
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