While the last fourth-plinth sculpture, Marc Quinn's monumental marble statue Alison Lapper Pregnant, explicitly critiqued the history of grand old men immortalised in the square, Schütte, with his architectural fantasy, has made something that is more connected with urban life.
But the IMF has to tread a careful line on this issue to avoid explicitly critiquing the laws in its 188 member countries, including states like Mali and Yemen, which have been among the worst performers on indices of gender equality.
One of the boys in her studies explicitly critiques it: "It might be nice to be a girl because then I wouldn't have to be emotionless". All humans, regardless of gender, are built for emotion and human connection.
While Whitworth wasn't explicitly critiquing our society, his nihilist tirade nonetheless snapped us out of our dazed viewing, made us forget for a moment that we have a reality TV show president who buys fast food for championship athletes, who shuts down the government because he doesn't get what he wants, who tweets out policy decisions seemingly off the cuff.
Sanders explicitly critiques unfettered capitalism, arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy and a tax on Wall Street speculation; Trump merely claims that he as a businessman knows how to reorient the economy so that the broader public once again benefits from it.
In any case, Tol's critique explicitly acknowledges the expert consensus on human-caused global warming is real and accurate.
They did two things with Beck: they created the normal-cop-in-a-normal-city paradigm, the dour guy a little down on his luck; and they used a crime series explicitly as social critique.
Also, it should be noted that autonomy or related ideas have figured importantly in other approaches to justice and social critique, either explicitly or by implication, which are not explicitly liberal (or indeed reject that framework).
Implicitly and explicitly, they offer a critique of the free market capitalism that has been recent conservative orthodoxy throughout the developed west.
Firstly, some IC critique is explicitly not engaged with academic publications.
