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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Talal Asad Abstract This essay is an attempt at thinking through Wittgenstein's philosophy in order to clarify some aspects of what people call “religion.” Central to it is an exploration of the polarity between belief and practice and an attempt to reframe that polarity in terms of the mutually...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... In Harper's language, social-critical abstractionism “must necessarily negotiate a delicate relationship between clear real-world reference . . . and obvious fictive contrivance.” 55 While Black art is abstract, however, this does not mean it is opposed to figuration or realism, the typical contrasts...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., from their own history and within the real abstractions of capitalist society. Colonial nations are locked into a “stunted history,” relegated to a tragic repetition of essence, a tragic one because of an irresolvable conflict between institutions (postcolonial states like the sectarian Lebanese state...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., or forms of statehood. While I cannot say why Balibar's work has gravitated toward this subject recently, I do want to comment on its more general implications in my response to his essay. What does it mean to deploy a word like violence , or indeed nonviolence , as an abstract and universal concept...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 33–67.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Eva von Redecker Abstract This article theorizes contemporary authoritarian mobilization and its continuities with liberal modernity. It draws on the genealogy of modern property to systematically integrate two registers that often compete in explanations of authoritarianism: materialist analyses...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Joan W. Scott Abstract This essay argues for a definition of academic freedom that does not confuse it with what is considered to be a human right—the individual right to free speech. This is a freedom granted in principle by the state to scholars (usually within educational institutions: schools...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 471–477.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to the temporalities of embodied life, its sedimented patterns of relationship, with its “practices extended, taught, and grasped over time” (412). Following Wittgenstein, we should not “reify reason,” abstracting it out from our daily lives and then turning it against ourselves. Asad's question—“Can I refuse to speak...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Adom Getachew; Karuna Mantena Abstract This essay surveys some recent attempts to decolonize political theory and engage with non-Western political thinkers and traditions, especially anticolonialism. The authors' concern is that these engagements remain too centered on Western political thought...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Emily Ng Abstract The history of modern China has been filled with loss in many senses. From certain angles of vision, loss, remembrance, and forgetting orbit around figures of political repression in the People's Republic of China (PRC), particularly that of censorship. These approaches posit...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of feminine experience and the potential knowledge that it harbors about culture in determinate historical contexts. Certainly, it is only the winners in class struggle who abstract feminine oppression from its concrete social instantiation. But the reason why feminine desire does not easily translate...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Juan Obarrio Abstract This inaugural issue of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts marked both by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and by the emergence of new authoritarian political and cultural formations. Some of the essays...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 456–463.
Published: 01 December 2020
... be triangulated to produce yet another form of what Talal aptly decries as disembodied abstractionism. 5 If barzakh logic is to prevail, it requires constant vigilance against the reflex back to binary logic, and in its place, a commitment to a more restrained, patient engagement with dyadic logic, twos...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to the One + n .” In Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media , 227 – 42 . New York : Fordham University Press , 2012 . Osborne Peter . “ The Reproach of Abstraction .” Radical Philosophy , no. 127 ( 2004 ): 21 – 28 . Pandolfo...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1)
Published: 01 April 2018
...Alessandra Sanguinetti Abstract These photographs were taken during my visits to the West Bank and Gaza in 2003 and 2004. In them I portray moments in the daily life of a population struggling to get by under difficult conditions. Through images of children with their families, alone, or at play, I...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1)
Published: 01 April 2018
...Fiamma Montezemolo Abstract In her experimental twenty-minute video-essay , the artist and anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo combines fieldwork-based research and art to create a meditation on border life between the United States and Mexico. Based on years of ethnographic work in Tijuana...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Abstract This special section collects memorial essays and testimonies on the life, work, and legacy of Saba Mahmood, who died March 10, 2018. This special section collects memorial essays and testimonies on the life, work, and legacy of Saba Mahmood, who died March 10, 2018. Born in Pakistan...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 187–232.
Published: 01 August 2021
...David Marriott Abstract This essay considers the various meanings of the word “crystallization” in Frantz Fanon's main theses on national culture and his political philosophy more generally. It also further considers the implications of crystallization alongside Fanon's notion of the “nation...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 443–449.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of life in order to learn about it.” 8 The anthropologist's task is, of course, the task of the translator. And what Asad writes, at that point in his notorious treatment of Ernst Gellner, is in fact that “the anthropologist's translation is not merely a matter of matching sentences in the abstract...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 167–178.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Mary Louise Pratt Abstract This essay examines how two very different thinkers address the question of how to live loss. The first is the Canadian Cree artist and writer Tomson Highway, author most recently of Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordians , and the second is US...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 401–402.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Charles Hirschkind Abstract In the lead essay to this special section, Talal Asad explores some of the avenues opened up by Wittgenstein's work for students of religion. Highlighting some of the philosopher's key insights on the life of language, Asad argues that, instead of taking the opposition...
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