Criticism, Sabotage and Subalternity Authors Manuel Pérez Asensi Universitat de València Keywords: criticism, sabotage, subaltern, post-global Abstract This essay defines a “new” kind of criticism called “Criticism as sabotage” and its necessity in the context of postglobalization and its presupositions. In order to do so, it introduces a definition of textuality as an actual performative force that modifies the receiver’s conception of the world and drives him/her to accomplish acts and discourses. This essay also illustrates “criticism as sabotage” through brief examples belonging to different semiotic registers. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
