Cured Quail Volume 3 | Spring 2024

Preorders are now open for Cured Quail Volume 3.

Cured Quail is a journal of critical theory that takes seriously the aesthetic, social and conceptual problems of illiteracy. However, illiteracy is not meant here in the customary sense of simply being unable to read or write. Rather, Cured Quail poses the question of illiteracy as that which hinders fully experiencing the words on a page, the patience required by an idea, or the particulars expressed by a work of art. For this, Cured Quail's essential starting point is to presume that the journal is unlikely to be read. This presumption is also the journal’s line of inquiry: how and under what social circumstances has the practice of reading collapsed? We contend that the compulsions of inattention pervade society as a whole and emaciate cultural experience. Cured Quail is concerned with discussions on culture, philosophy, political economy and modern and contemporary art, featuring critical essays, reviews, polemics, interviews, and other formats.

Contents of Volume 3:

• An Absolute Wrong
• Not Even Wrong: Towards a Critique of Conspiracism by coghnorti
• Swiping Plight by Leonidas Angeletos
• Use-Value Fetishism by Kornelia Hafner
• On the Abolition of Concrete by Anselm Jappe
• The Force of Music: On the Genesis of Social Obedience by Iris Dankemeyer
• Preoedipal Monsters: On the Critique of Postmodern Decay-Subjectivity and its Destructive Dissolution of Boundaries by Patrice Schlauch
• The Capitalism of Fools by Marcel Stoetzler
• Managing Decline by Jacob Blumenfeld
• Transi with Recumbence by Leopold Plume