Work

Critical Intimacy

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Critical intimacy is a notion aimed at addressing commonality from within some of the things that matter most in life: theory, sex, and art. It draws on the momentum of the strong presence of theory in the humanities along with the demand for social justice, the momentum of the emergence of intimacy as a political concept, and that of field literature and socially based art. It allows us to reconsider the “we” of theoretical thinking, relationality, and creation, as well as to address one’s elective or involuntary affinities with ideas and practices which should be maintained, reassessed, or disappear from the world. Its modality is that of the from within: it comprises nuanced proximity and opening to the outside, lovingness and lucidity, criticality as a mode of attachment.

Source: HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

DOI: 10.60949/n9z8-7e17

Author: Lampropoulos, Apostolos

Institution: Université Bordeaux Montaigne

Language: English

Topic: Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: EXC 2020: Temporal Communities. Literatur als Praxis in globaler Perspektive