摘要
The paper explores examples of contemporary experience in order to demonstrate the moralisation of new areas of behaviour （especially in relation to environmental issues）. It sketches a Foucauldian framework for understanding the historical transformation of experience, in terms of the ＂apparatus of experience.＂ On that basis, it presents a novel account of critique, in which critique is seen as the potentially transformational, experiential practice of re-experiencing the contemporary apparatuses of experience. In other words, critique is ＂experience squared.＂ It is this re-experiencing of our everyday experience that permits us, to a certain extent, to ＂get over ourselves＂ and thus to reflect critically on the processes of moralisation and de-moralisation in which we participate.
The paper explores examples of contemporary experience in order to demonstrate the moralisation of new areas of behaviour （especially in relation to environmental issues）. It sketches a Foucauldian framework for understanding the historical transformation of experience, in terms of the ＂apparatus of experience.＂ On that basis, it presents a novel account of critique, in which critique is seen as the potentially transformational, experiential practice of re-experiencing the contemporary apparatuses of experience. In other words, critique is ＂experience squared.＂ It is this re-experiencing of our everyday experience that permits us, to a certain extent, to ＂get over ourselves＂ and thus to reflect critically on the processes of moralisation and de-moralisation in which we participate.
