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postcritical

postcritical

9.5
Relating to a time after careful review and decision
  • adjective
  • /ˌpoʊstˈkrɪtɪkəl/
  • Formal
: postcrítico
  • The new architectural design reflects a postcritical approach that moves beyond traditional evaluations.

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The postcritical work seems to lose the sense of irony that Vidler offers us.

    Academic text (2003)
  • And in what stands as a cogent reprise to the current postcritical turn in architecture, he continues:

    Academic text (2003)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2003)
  • 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.

    Academic text (1993)
  • In his latest book, the author explores postcritical themes that address contemporary philosophical debates.

  • Many artists today embrace a postcritical perspective that prioritizes experience over critique.

Surface Forms

postcritical positive

Morphology

postcritical = critical (transparent) = post + critical

Formed by the productive prefix 'post-' (after) added to the adjective 'critical', yielding the clear meaning 'after or beyond critical'.

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.