Die Beweglichkeit der Kritik. Zur Wechselbeziehung von Kontextualisierung und Objektivierung im digitalen Zeitalter

Abstract

Given that digitisation and datafication go hand in hand with post-truth phenomena and claims to neutrality, we plead for an agility of critique. The problems of post-truth phenomena and claims to neutrality are that they are associated with relativistic and technocratic tendencies. These tendencies require an agility of critique that contrasts post-truth phenomena with a movement from contextualisation to objectivation and the claimed neutrality with a movement from objectivation to contextualisation. However, such agility of critique faces significant challenges: Conceptually, this agility is accused of being relativistic itself, and from a scientific-historical perspective, objectivation and contextualisation are regarded as incompatible forms of reflection. The goal of our contribution is therefore a rehabilitation of the agility of critique, which we theoretically substantiate with Bourdieu’s participant objectivation and the concept of the divided habitus.