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This essay investigates the notion of  counterproduction  in the writings of Alexander Kluge. In  Kongs große Stunde  (2015), Kluge identifies  counterproduction  as an essentially reparative practice. It combines a constructive ethos of care with the deconstructive attitude of critique. In this sense, repair work as  counterproduction  offers a model to overcome the age-old dichotomies of theory and praxis, as well as analysis and synthesis. As a form of critical  labor of intelligence , it also offers a new perspective on current debates on the value of critique in the humanities in general and literary studies in particular. The objects of (literary) critique transform from  matters of fact  into  matters of concern . Repair workers like the engineer or the bricoleur are attentive to the precariousness of all artifacts. For them, (literary) objects are in constant need of care. They (re-)construct and maintain integrity and functionality by (re-)assembling seemingly random and heterogeneous elements in an open-ended process, thus producing the poetic vision of a future not based on the demands of Capitalist production but on counterproductive repair work.

Critique as Counterproduction : Repair Work in Alexander Kluge