Exit!

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]] '''EXIT!''' (or alternatively: '''''Exit!''''') is a German journal of social criticism, and discussion group formed in 2004.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Exit! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft • Jahrgang 20, Heft 20 |url=https://zuklampen.de/buecher/sachbuch/philosophie/bk/1249-exit-krise-und-kritik-der-warengesellschaft.html |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=zu Klampen Verlag |language=de-de}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=ZDB catalogue - Detailed title record information:... |url=https://zdb-katalog.de/title.xhtml?idn=026607131&view=brief&direct=true |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=zdb-katalog.de}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Bolt |first1=Mikkel |last2=Routhier |first2=Dominique |title=Kritisk teori som radikal krise teori: Kurz, Krisis og Exit! om værdikritik, kapitalismens krise og sammenbrud. |url=https://research.ku.dk/search/result/?pure=en%2Fpublications%2Fkritisk-teori-som-radikal-kriseteori(e193c9ce-e4f2-4420-a4a4-a889a13a2097).html |journal=Arbejderhistorie: Tidskrift for Historie, Kultur og Politik (2014) |date=26 April 2007 |type=Peer reviewed journal |language=Danish |issue=2 |pages=77–93 |issn=0107-8461 |via=University of Copenhagen}}</ref> The journal is published by the publishing house ''Zu Klampen Verlag''.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Production |first=bücher de IT and |title=exit! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft |url=https://www.buecher.de/shop/politische-philosophie/exit-krise-und-kritik-der-warengesellschaft/buch/products_products/detail/prod_id/63046982/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=bücher.de |language=de}}</ref> The journal has a value-critical (German: ''Wertkritik'') approach, both to the contemporary mode of production, and its critique of traditional marxism, as well as their critique of political economy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Literature, Immanent Critique, and the Problem of Standpoint {{!}} Mediations {{!}} Journal of the Marxist Literary Group |url=https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/literature-immanent-critique-and-the-problem-of-standpoint |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=mediationsjournal.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=EXIT! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft |url=https://www.exit-online.org/text.php?tabelle=selbstdarstellung |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=www.exit-online.org}}</ref><ref name=":0">Marxism and the Critique of Value, Neil Larsen, Mathias Nilges, Josh Robinson, and Nicholas Brown, MCM' Publishing, 2014, p.xi,xii,xiv,xxv,xvl,xlvii,</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Abbildungsnachweise |date=2011-01-01 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/9783846751848_012 |work=Unsichtbare Hände |pages=217–218 |publisher=Brill {{!}} Fink |doi=10.30965/9783846751848_012 |isbn=9783846751848 |access-date=2022-04-03 |last1=Bublitz |first1=Hannelore |last2=Kaldrack |first2=Irina |last3=Röhle |first3=Theo |last4=Winkler |first4=Hartmut |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-15 |title=Claus Peter Ortlieb {{!}} Η χαμένη αθωότητα της παραγωγικότητας |url=https://www.iforinterview.com/claus-peter-ortlieb-the-lost-innocence-of-productivity/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=I for Interview |language=en-US}}</ref>

EXIT! thereby subjects "abstract labour" and its expressions of value, commodity, money and market to a categorical critique. The value dissociation criticism (German: ''Wertabspaltungskritik'') of the philosopher Roswitha Scholz occupies a large space in the journal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leicht |first=Ulrich |title=Kleine Geschichte des wertkritischen Theoriebildungsprozesses von seinen Anfängen im Jahre 1986 bis heute. Von der Zeitschrift "Marxistische Kritik" über die Gruppe "Krisis" bis zu seinem neuesten Ausgang, dem Projekt "Exit" |url=https://www.exit-online.org/textanz1.php?tabelle=theoriezeitschrift&index=19&posnr=10 |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=www.exit-online.org |language=German}}</ref>

== Content and influence == [[File:Jappe.jpg|thumb|171x171px|Jappe (philosopher)]] A few of the subjects that the journal addresses are critiques of economics, anti-politics, critique of traditional Marxism (''Weltanschauungsmarxismus; English: Worldview Marxism)'', crisis ideologies and critique of ideologies, the end of modernization, critique of anti-German ideology, critique of work and abstract time, critique of the Enlightenment & Human Rights Ideology, critique of capitalism as the theology of modernity, postmodern subjectivity, democracy and anti-Semitism, populism and "the false immediacy of the left".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Noble |first=Barnes & |title=Exit! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft: Jahrgang 20, Heft 20{{!}}eBook |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/exit-krise-und-kritik-der-warengesellschaft-robert-kurz/1143778403 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Barnes & Noble |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=[Schwerpunkte] |url=https://www.exit-online.org/text.php?tabelle=schwerpunkte |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.exit-online.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Exit! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft |url=https://meiner.de/exit-krise-und-kritik-der-warengesellschaft.html |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=meiner.de |language=de}}</ref> But big data, and criticism of monetary value theory, and a range of other topics has also been covered.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Meyer |first=Thomas |date=2018-12-31 |title=Big Data und die smarte neue Welt als höchstes Stadium des Positivismus |url=https://dev.meiner.cloudpublish.co.uk/article/607/big-data-und-die-smarte-neue-welt-als-hochstes-stadium-des-positivismus |journal=Exit! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft |volume=15 |issue=15 |pages=111–157 |doi=10.28937/9783987373367_6 |issn=2752-0323|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Urban |first1=Andreas |last2=von Uhnrast |first2=Alexander |date=2022-04-25 |title=Geldtheorie mit Januskopf |url=https://dev.meiner.cloudpublish.co.uk/article/585/geldtheorie-mit-januskopf |journal=Exit! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft |volume=19 |issue=19 |pages=219–253 |doi=10.28937/9783866749634_9 |issn=2752-0323|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[File:RobertKurz.jpg|thumb|137x137px|Kurz (Philosopher)]] Some of the authors featured in the journal include Robert Kurz, Roswitha Scholz, Claus Peter Ortlieb, Tomasz Konicz, Anselm Jappe etc.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-10 |title=Claus Peter Ortlieb ist gestorben |url=https://www.krisis.org/2019/claus-peter-ortlieb-ist-gestorben/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Krisis |language=de-DE}}</ref> The journal originated in the German speaking world, but have had all the more influence internationally due to translations to Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Spanish, and others.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kapitalismuskritik für das 21. Jahrhundert Mit Marx über Marx hinaus: Das theoretische Projekt der Gruppe "EXIT!" |url=https://www.exit-online.org/text.php?tabelle=selbstdarstellung |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=www.exit-online.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Palim-Psao |date=2011-10-02 |title=« Vertus féminines. Crise du féminisme et management postmoderne », par Robert Kurz - Critique de la valeur-dissociation. Repenser une théorie critique du capitalisme |url=http://www.palim-psao.fr/article-vertus-feminines-crise-du-feminisme-et-management-postmoderne-par-robert-kurz-85625964.html |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Critique de la valeur-dissociation. Repenser une théorie critique du capitalisme |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> There has also been a rather rich translation of the works of the EXIT! group, with 15 languages being covered only on their own site.<ref>{{Cite web |title=[Transnationales] |url=https://www.exit-online.org/text.php?tabelle=transnationales |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.exit-online.org}}</ref> There has been a especially high amount of translation specifically to Portuguese and Spanish with several scholars and institutions adopting the theories of EXIT! in Brazil.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Toledo |first1=Carlos de Almeida |last2=Boechat |first2=Cássio Arruda |last3=Heidemann |first3=Heinz Dieter |date=2012-12-27 |title=Vinte anos de um grupo de estudos do Labur – Crise e Crítica do Sistema Fetichista Produtor de Mercadoria e da Modernização Retardatária Brasileira. |url=https://www.revistas.usp.br/rdg/article/view/53847 |journal=Revista do Departamento de Geografia |language=pt |pages=154–170 |doi=10.7154/RDG.2012.0112.0009 |issn=2236-2878|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gênero {{!}} Ensino de Sociologia |url=https://ensinosociologia.fflch.usp.br/genero-2 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=ensinosociologia.fflch.usp.br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Exit! - Crise e Crítica da Sociedade das Mercadorias (em português) |url=http://www.obeco-online.org/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.obeco-online.org}}</ref><ref name=":4" />

== History == [[File:CPO300x450.jpg|thumb|207x207px|Claus Peter Ortlieb (mathematician)]] The group Exit! emerged from a split in the Krisis group. Krisis was founded by the philosopher Robert Kurz and others in 1986.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Pagliuso Regatieri |first=Ricardo |title=Livro investiga desdobramentos da obra do sociólogo Robert Kurz – USP – Universidade de São Paulo |url=https://www5.usp.br/noticias/cultura/livro-investiga-desdobramentos-da-obra-de-robert-kurz/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www5.usp.br|date=10 January 2013 }}</ref> Kurz was to become its most active and prominent author, and the group were to become instrumental in the development of value dissociation criticism.<ref name=":3" /> Before the split of the group occurred in 2004, Kurz had already managed to publish his seminal work ''Schwarzbuch Kapitalismus'', which Die Zeit had proclaimed one of the most important publications of the decade.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=ZEIT ONLINE {{!}} Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl. |url=https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2F1999%2F51%2F199951.p-kurz_.xml |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.zeit.de}}</ref> However, when the group split, Robert Kurz ended up co-founding the new group with the name of ''Exit!.<ref name=":4" />''<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-07-20 |title=Publizist und Philosoph Robert Kurz ist tot |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/publizist-und-philosoph-robert-kurz-ist-tot-a-845455.html |access-date=2022-03-29 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-12-31 |title=Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America |url=https://www.krisis.org/2004/thoughts-on-violence-and-modernity/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Krisis |language=de-DE}}</ref>'' According to those who would become involved in Exit!, the split was the result of a putsch by a minority of the editorial staff of Krisis.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last1=von Bosse |first1=Hanns |last2=Haarmann |first2=Petra |last3=Hausinger |first3=Brigitte |last4=Ortlieb |first4=Claus Peter |author-link4=Claus Peter Ortlieb |date=2004-04-11 |title=Regarding the Krisis Group Division. |url=https://www.exit-online.org/textanz1.php?tabelle=transnationales&index=1&posnr=23&backtext1=text1.php&PHPSESSID=ac859106df6861045746afba94e7fe73 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=exit-online.org}}</ref> But those who remained with Krisis claimed that it had to do with personal reasons between the members.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-12-31 |title=Krisis 28 – Editorial |url=https://www.krisis.org/2004/krisis-28-editorial/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Krisis |language=de-DE}}</ref> A few members of EXIT! published a communiqué stating among other facts, that a theoretical conflict had developed due to Kurz critical engagements with anti-Germans. They noted that the majority of the old editorial board from Krisis would start a new project, that was to become EXIT!<ref name=":5" /> They also stated that they wanted to keep developing theory that was free of "an ideology of the pro-western ¡hurrah!", as well as expressed an aim to "''we want to offer to the rising social movements a useful critical-solidary reference, instead of the pattern of "left populist" and anti-Semitic thought''".<ref name=":5" />

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== External links == * [https://www.exit-online.org/ EXIT! - Official website] [https://www.exit-online.org/text1.php?tabelle=transnationales&index=3 (Articles in english)], [https://exitinenglish.wordpress.com/ (More articles in english)] * Audio recording of an EXIT! seminar (Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse) from 2013 (in german) * Audio recording of an EXIT! seminar (Krise und Transformation) from 2014 (in german) Category:Magazines established in 2004 Category:German philosophy Category:German-language magazines