Kiff Bamford is Reader in Contemporary Art in the School of Art, Architecture and Design, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is author of Lyotard and the ‘figural’ in Performance, Art and Writing (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Jean-François Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates (Bloomsbury, 2020). Margret Grebowicz is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She is the author of Whale Song (Bloomsbury, 2017) and editor of Gender after Lyotard (2007).
In Lyotard and Critical Practice, Kiff Bamford and Margret Grebowicz have assembled an exciting time machine of philosophical cultural criticism. With its poly-vocal passage through hitherto little-heard and little-considered aspects of Lyotard’s work, the inventor of postmodernism is credited not only with a special presentness, but with an enormous ability for the future. Reading the book is an empathic invitation to think transversally and to sharpen an idea of critique that is deeply rooted in sensual experience, especially at a time when our existence is becoming increasingly technical. * Siegfried Zielinski, Michel-Foucault-Professor for Techno-Aesthetics and Media Archaeology, The European Graduate School / EGS, Switzerland *