postcritical
- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstˈkrɪtɪkəl/
- Formal
- The new architectural design reflects a postcritical approach that moves beyond traditional evaluations.
Examples
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Koolhaas is not responsible for architecture's postcritical turn, but there is a way in which his positioning of architecture in relation to capitalist forces left itself open to such interpretation.
Academic text (2003) -
The decoupling of form and program was thus cast as an opportunity to replace critical engagement with other maneuvers, a lesson picked up by the postcritical camp.
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The postcritical work seems to lose the sense of irony that Vidler offers us.
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And in what stands as a cogent reprise to the current postcritical turn in architecture, he continues:
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If OMA successfully negotiated this line between irony and cynicism, can we say the same of their postcritical, or "strictly operational," followers?
Academic text (2003) -
Theologians should undertake a postcritical appropriation of a distinctly precritical method: namely, the ancient faculty of rhetoric.
Academic text (1991) -
I want now to turn to Koolhaas's thoughts on form and signification, which demonstrate a complexity missing in recent postcritical claims to a fully asemantic, operational, and diagrammatic architecture.
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Another is represented by the postcritical theologies of Hans Frei and George Lindbeck, with roots in Wittgenstein, semiotic anthropology, and plain-sense readings of the New Testament.
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In his latest book, the author explores postcritical themes that address contemporary philosophical debates.
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Many artists today embrace a postcritical perspective that prioritizes experience over critique.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Postcritical is made of the part post- meaning 'after' and the familiar word critical, which is like a 'critic' who judges. So postcritical describes something that comes 'after' the critical stage or after a judgment.