Post-critique Between Experience and Power: A Meta-Critical Study of Rita Felski's Project

This study re-examines Rita Felski?s postcritique as an attempt to recalibrate the relation between interpretation and experience, while subjecting the project to a meta-critical scrutiny. Through close analyses of Uses of Literature, The Limits of Critique, and Hooked: Art and Attachment, it unpacks Felski?s genealogy of suspicious reading and probes the conceptual quartet of recognition, enchantment, attachment, and transformation. The findings show that Felski?s historical narrative is reductively Western-centric; that her postcritical reader presumes a liberal neutrality misaligned with contexts structured by power, class, and gender; that explicit criteria for moving between suspicion and attunement are absent; and that the socio-technical mediator-algorithms and platforms-remains largely untheorized. In response, the study proposes an Evaluative Matrix comprising seven criteria-representational fairness, conceptual operability, evidential rigor, political accountability, transition criteria, mediational awareness, and cultural transposability-designed to operationalize assessment of postcritique. An applied Arabic lens demonstrates conceptual transformation upon cultural transfer: recognition functions as collective memory, attachment as symbolic resistance, and enchantment as ethical awakening. The study ultimately argues for a renewed critical horizon that balances suspicion and attunement, integrates the algorithmic medium as a constitutive agent of meaning, and reconceives reading as an epistemic-ethical event co-produced by human agency and machinic infrastructures.