Over the last decades, many scholars, feminist and others, have argued that critique must be reframed in different and more ‘productive’ ways because its ‘conventional’ formulation and practice have outlived its usefulness as a conceptual tool. Instead, they have called for affirmation or affirmative critique and a more generative mode of critical engagement in the search for new imaginaries, transformative potentialities and other futures. New feminist materialist thought’s emergence is, we argue, symptomatic of this contemporary intellectual landscape that claims to move beyond critique. While sympathetic with the desire to rethink a form of critique that speaks to the (urgent) politics of the present and the remaking of political imaginaries, we argue that the theoretical gesture to move beyond critique may offer a potentially troubling remapping organised around certain kinds of repression (of the undetermined and ambivalent work of critique) and amnesia (of feminist genealogies and over different feminist projects’ conceptualisation of matter) that yield a politics without politics.

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女权主义问题、批评和政治的未来

在过去的几十年里，许多学者、女权主义者和其他人认为，必须以不同的和更“富有成效”的方式重新定义批评，因为它的“传统”表述和实践已经超过了它作为概念工具的用处。相反，他们呼吁肯定或肯定的批评，以及在寻找新的想象、变革潜力和其他未来的过程中，批判性参与的更具生成性的模式。我们认为，新女权主义唯物主义思想的出现是这种声称超越批判的当代知识景观的征兆。虽然同情重新思考一种批评形式的愿望，这种批评形式与当前的（紧急）政治和政治想象的重塑有关，