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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Layal Ftouni Abstract How is life affirmed under conditions of death, destruction, and debilitation? This article addresses this question by looking at the practice of sperm smuggling in Palestine as a life-affirming practice. The practice of sperm smuggling emerges in a context where reproductive...
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The Value of the Surface: Reappreciating Embodiment, Labor, and Necessity in Arendt's Political Thought
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 263–283.
Published: 01 August 2021
... well-known skepticism toward the ideals of the animal laborans (the human being reduced to the function of the laborer) in politics, I argue, Arendt was attentive to the affirmative aspects of bodily existence. From her early writings to the unfinished The Life of the Mind , we find a continuous...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 April 2022
... cycles of violence. Nevertheless, living amid these processes of ruination and the debris they leave behind can also enable new capacities, expressions of potentiality committed to the persistence of minoritarian forms of life, or, as I prefer to call them, affirmative affectivities . And, once again...
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Hit the Tire: The Strike Mutates into a New Form
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 632–644.
Published: 01 December 2022
... be recognized as fully or equally human. This is far from being a new affirmation. The Mandé Charter of 1222, a set of political axioms developed in parts of modern Mali, Senegal, and Guinea, declared that “Every human life is a life.” More recently in Haiti, “Tout moun se moun” (Every person is a person...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... As a result of this feigned positivity, they seek to hide the fallacies of the neoliberal model. There is, in other words, a massification of positivity. But this is not a matter of a healthy optimism, of a hope-inducing optimism that is life-affirming and forward-looking, but rather of an alienated...
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The Intricacies of Sovereignty
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 321–325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... not being registered at all—being subdued into desolation and, in fact, emptied out; stripped of its capacity to affirm itself. By Sithole's own admission, this is indeed the precariousness that circumscribes this mode of critique and indeed black life at large. He insists that “the black register does...
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Introduction: Reproductive Injustices
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 3–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and theorizes this practice as an “affirmation of life” within the context of multiple reproductive injustices and denials (including the denial of identification to those born from sperm smuggling). She inquires into the meanings and scope of what this resistance as life-affirmation involves, and more...
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Introduction: Nonsense—Critique for the Times
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to life, and the essays contained herein may be said, each in a different way, to be an affirmation of life in contexts of ongoing colonial, settler, and state-juridical destruction. “The I think must be capable of accompanying all my presentations [ Das: Ich denke , muß alle meine...
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Humanism: A Critical Reappraisal
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 29–38.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Didier Fassin 1. Mahmood, “Humanism.” 2. Mahmood, “Humanism,” 2 . 3. Mahmood, “Humanism,” 2 . 4. Fassin, Life , 20, 82 . 5. Mahmood, “Humanism,” 3 . 6. Foucault, Order of Things , 387 . 7. Foucault, Order of Things , 387 . 8. Sartre...
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Feminine Desire, Feminist Politics
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to the willful assertion of its purportedly autonomous self-determination. It is a truth that will have been apprehended only through the very experience that López aims to capture. Though the author begins from the idea that life in common presumes an embodied subject, for the same reason, she also criticizes...
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At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... guide him to see utopia as an affirmative project. Rather, reading Mahagonny as a project of immanent critique, he gestures toward negativity as a mode of undoing the present order from within the midst of “damaged life.” Adorno's resistance to the substantiation of the utopian dimension in a positive...
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Writing in the Eye of the Storm
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 456–463.
Published: 01 December 2020
... because the two positions cannot always be kept apart—even if it were desirable to do so” (405). To speak “at once from inside and outside because the two positions cannot always be kept apart” is what I have called elsewhere barzakh logic, a fuzzy logic that both affirms and denies, while neither...
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Adorno's Problematic Entanglement with Blackness
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
... culture could . . . become culture, insofar as . . . it was forced to turn its resources of spirit toward negation and critique. —Hortense Spillers black life cannot help but be lived as critical reflection. —Fumi Okiji There are substantive correlations and recent interlocutions between...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and absurd but essential and actual. For Amel, insight lies not in saying that discourse is contradictory but only in saying that we must be able to grasp reality in a concept. 12 Marx's disavowal of compassion, then, returns in his affirmation of the rational unfolding of history defined as a history...
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The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of counter-communities, encompassing radically oppositional body practices, desires, economies, networks, and, as Jack Halberstam says, other “willfully eccentric modes of being.” 41 In short, they take up Marx's affirmation of proletarian realities of life but apply it to the field of gender relations...
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Special Section: On the Work of Saba Mahmood
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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. © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0...
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Of Goats, Theorems, and Laws: Fictions Adrift
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 68–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
... pushing him away, quite literally, from history, to the point that there are those who have never heard of Selkirk and who have come to believe that Robinson did exist. Among them is Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, who once affirmed while visiting the archipelago that “this marvelous island has been...
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Checklists: On Puerto Rico's SoVerano
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 277–299.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and precarization, the checklists affirm the will to target the productivity of coloniality here and now. 49 The checklists not only record but also store, one might say, the power of removal, dislocation, and interruption, in order to build life anew. This latter project has been pursued through autonomous...
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The New Neoliberal Turn in Argentina: Omnipotence, the Sacrificial Mandate, and the Craving for Punishment
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 April 2019
... relationship between—and simultaneous deployment of—the “punitive” elements of this interpellation and its new, entrepreneurial dimension. This last component, opposed to the first only nominally, exalts individual potency and delivers an “amicable” appeal to a wholesome and reconciled common life. Taking...
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Brazilian Universities under Attack: From the Biopolitical Pact to the Necropopulist Moment
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 97–108.
Published: 01 April 2022
... continued unabated, with the militarized “pacification” of favelas causing thousands of civilian deaths. 3 As Giorgio Agamben has argued, the biopolitical rationality that affirms a right to life can also make life more vulnerable; 4 it can also give rise to a necropolitical regime, as described...
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