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A commitment to critical theory may be seen as an addiction like any other. Contrary to most, however, it meets with a relatively high level of social approval. It is even tinged with a touch of intellectual prestige, which is the kind of prerogative mostly reserved nowadays for nonprofit activities. One such is philosophy, commonly understood as the gratuitous display of the human predisposition for mental restlessness. Intelligence, after all, is that peculiar human talent that can be described as a practice of suspicion of and chronic discontent with the obvious and the banal. Critical theory is a stubborn and proud addiction to this practice.
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Braidotti, R. (2009). Meta(l)flesh. In: Detsi-Diamanti, Z., Kitsi-Mitakou, K., Yiannopoulou, E. (eds) The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620858_13
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