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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 182–214.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Judith Rodríguez Abstract This article reads the affective charge of ethnonationalism and antiblackness in Puerto Rican poetics and performance. Moving from the “legible” affect in Afro–Puerto Rican feminist poet Julia de Burgos's ethnonational poetry to the “illegible” affect experienced on stage...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
... on several non-modern crises, crises affecting (1) the modern conflict between knowledge and thought; (2) the modern dispute between the superior, technical faculties and the inferior, critical faculty; (3) the university understood as the original source of ends-driven research, on the one hand, and open...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of social precarization and exclusion. Against these murderous trends, which this article characterizes as marked by an aesthetics of cruelty, some of these struggles foreground the vulnerable character of life and the embodied dimension of politics and its affective domains. This article focuses...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 358–383.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Home Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini delivered in July 2018 at the thirty-second annual gathering of the Lega party. Its aim is to detect the presence in it of the politics of abjection (Judith Butler), a “Fascist archetype” (Umberto Eco) that affects both racialized and non...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 559–565.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., Berkeley, and juxtapose it with the struggles that have come out of the Department of Ethnic Studies since 1969. We discuss the context of COLA and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the aims, goals, and development of the movement from an ethnic studies perspective. © 2020 Ethnic Studies Graduate...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 149–157.
Published: 01 April 2018
... joined the International Women's Strike. Despite the collapse of the peace process and the resumption of war in the summer of 2015, women activists continued to struggle under the Turkish government's emergency regime. This essay addresses the ways in which the peace process and its termination affected...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of thinking time. It concludes with a speculation on the promise of a “soft” rather than “mean” time, the latter evoking imperial standardization and the former describing a terrain in which affect and history are set in rippling motion. © 2019 Vilashini Cooppan 2019 This is an open access article...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 121–128.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., restructures working time, imposes styles of reading, affects teaching, and dictates new research practices. But above all, the rearticulations of democracy due to the digital condition will mark the new state of the universities. And such a prospect can perhaps be defined within Bill Sharpe's three horizons...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and #VivasNosQueremos. What started as an act of public grief and defiance against patriarchy rapidly found an angry but also unexpectedly upbeat tone, a combination of collective fury and exhaustion expressed in highly theatrical and political performances of affection and resistance. “We are moved by desire” became...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 271–288.
Published: 01 August 2023
... mountain lakes constructed by forced laboring kin, and ravines and valley crevices that offered routes of escape from indentured labor and political violence. Such practices point to a politics of lo abigarrado (the motley), a term used to describe people whose labor itineraries and affective attachments...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 517–539.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in the course of their underwater lives and in company with seawater, marine organisms, and inanimate beings. In this way, manifestly imperial presences actively coincide with others—and with the agencies, memories, and affects such presences may be understood to express (and not). Pivotally informed by Édouard...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 423–447.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., where creativity and the imagination are potent, and social symptoms turn into affective bonds, commonly unleashed. [email protected] [email protected] © 2024 Ana Minozzo and Raluca Soreanu 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 200–223.
Published: 01 August 2020
... is arrested by the forces—visceral and affective—emanating from the vision of injured and battered bodies, abound in Cazals's film and in the sensationalist tabloid the film is largely modeled on. Both constitute compelling examples of a clash or collapse of the two sources, the two endpoints, the antinomies...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 April 2022
... limitations. 1. Ranciére, “Skopje.” 2. Zambrana, Colonial Debts . 3. Latour, “On Some of the Affects of Capitalism.” 87. Tsing, Mushroom , 29 . 88. Millar, “Precarious Present.” 89. I was able to confirm this in several conversations on this case...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 342–347.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... Here, I want to think about what lies “in between finding” for us as scholars, activists, and artists. What comes of the excess of violent dispossession, illogical imprisonment, and neoliberal policies? What comes from the affect of illegibility? Do these moments of illegibility give us something...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in landscapes affected by loss. In this sense, NUM deserves to circulate beyond the Argentine context; it deserves to engage with other traumatic, “multidirectional memories,” as Rothberg would say, in order to show the extent to which this entanglement—instead of victimization—has shed light on different forms...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of possibility, binding us to our misery. See Berlant, Cruel Optimism . In Scenes of Subjection , Saidiya Hartman explores how “staged” happiness and enjoyment worked in the context of American chattel slavery. Simulated contentment and regulated amusement of slaves played crucial roles in the affective...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., an affect based on the repression of an affect. This is why I would like to call ressentiment a second-order affect —that is, an affect that has an affect as its content. 22 Not simply a “raw feeling,” it is in a variety of ways socially constituted. Let us look at these mediating instances in more...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... For one thing, as Not One Less demonstrates, there are overlapping (and sometimes contradictory) systems of gendered oppression, from femicide to sexual violence to reproductive choice to economic precarity. Mourning here is both affective and concrete: it offers the possibility of working through...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., and political community. It reveals the ideological, affective, and phantasmatic investments that sustain the representations of the revolution as a monumental event. In contrast, the dream addresses the revolution as the limit of the generational transmission of history and tradition. It invites a reckoning...
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