# Exit!
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[[File:Roswitha Scholz.jpg|thumb|184x184px|[Scholz](/source/Roswitha_Scholz) ([Philosopher](/source/Philosophy))
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'''EXIT!''' (or alternatively: '''''Exit!''''') is a German journal of social criticism, and discussion group formed in 2004.[{{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}}][{{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}}][{{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}}] The journal is published by the publishing house ''Zu Klampen Verlag''.[{{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}}] The journal has a [value-critical](/source/Value_criticism) (German: ''Wertkritik'') approach, both to the contemporary [mode of production](/source/produktionsweise), and its critique of traditional marxism, as well as their [critique of political economy](/source/critique_of_political_economy).[{{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}}][{{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}}][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,][{{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 }}][{{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}}]
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](/source/Roswitha_Scholz) occupies a large space in the journal.[{{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}}]
== Content and influence ==
[[File:Jappe.jpg|thumb|171x171px|[Jappe](/source/Anselm_Jappe) ([philosopher](/source/Philosophy))]]
A few of the subjects that the journal addresses are [critiques of economics](/source/Critique_of_economics), anti-politics, critique of [traditional Marxism](/source/Marxism) (''Weltanschauungsmarxismus; English: Worldview Marxism)'', crisis ideologies and critique of [ideologies](/source/Ideology), the end of [modernization](/source/Modernization_theory), critique of [anti-German](/source/Anti-Germans_(political_current)) ideology, [critique of work](/source/critique_of_work) and abstract time, critique of the [Enlightenment](/source/Age_of_Enlightenment) & Human Rights Ideology, critique of [capitalism](/source/capitalism) as the [theology](/source/theology) of [modernity](/source/modernity), [postmodern](/source/Postmodernism) subjectivity, democracy and [anti-Semitism](/source/Antisemitism), [populism](/source/populism) and "the false immediacy of the left".[{{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}}][{{Cite web |title=[Schwerpunkte] |url=https://www.exit-online.org/text.php?tabelle=schwerpunkte |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.exit-online.org}}][{{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}}] But big data, and criticism of monetary value theory, and a range of other topics has also been covered.[{{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 }}][{{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 }}]
[[File:RobertKurz.jpg|thumb|137x137px|[Kurz](/source/Robert_Kurz) ([Philosopher](/source/Philosophy))]]
Some of the authors featured in the journal include [Robert Kurz](/source/Robert_Kurz_(philosopher)), [Roswitha Scholz](/source/Roswitha_Scholz), [Claus Peter Ortlieb](/source/Claus_Peter_Ortlieb), [Tomasz Konicz](/source/Tomasz_Konicz), [Anselm Jappe](/source/Anselm_Jappe) etc.[{{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}}] 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.[{{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}}][{{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}}][{{Cite web |title=[Transnationales] |url=https://www.exit-online.org/text.php?tabelle=transnationales |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.exit-online.org}}] 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](/source/Brazil).[{{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 }}][{{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}}][{{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}}][{{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 }}] Kurz was to become its most active and prominent author, and the group were to become instrumental in the development of value dissociation criticism.[{{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}}] However, when the group split, Robert Kurz ended up co-founding the new group with the name of ''Exit!.[{{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}}]''[{{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}}]'' According to those who would become involved in Exit!, the split was the result of a [putsch](/source/putsch) by a minority of the editorial staff of Krisis.[{{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}}] But those who remained with Krisis claimed that it had to do with personal reasons between the members.[{{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}}] A few members of EXIT! published a communiqué stating among other facts, that a theoretical conflict had developed due to [Kurz](/source/Robert_Kurz) critical engagements with [anti-Germans](/source/Anti-Germans_(political_current)). They noted that the majority of the old editorial board from Krisis would start a new project, that was to become EXIT!