Volume 36 - Ways to be Critical - Summer 2013

The critic is dead. Long live the network! So it goes in our world of diffuse and shared knowledge. But if criticism has evolved into criticisms, how can we interpret and learn from the babble of opinions? This dilemma comes in tandem with the crisis of publishing. With declining print sales and slashed subsidies, many critics are out of work. Two fundamental tasks lie reviving the productive value of criticism, and finding new profitable ways to broadcast it to the world.