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...Wendy Brown Abstract What peculiar form of freedom is cultivated and promised in right-wing political formations today? How does “illiberal democracy” sew together libertarianism and authoritarianism? How is the radical disinhibition and aggressiveness contained in these formations reconciled...

...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...

... justice, and environmental sustainability. They are a fundamental part of the Brazilian biopolitical pact that has prevailed in recent decades. Brazil's new, openly authoritarian government has chosen this public university system as a central target, pursuing two courses of action: one a radical...

...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...

... democracy's core conventions, from the mass feminist demonstrations and strikes, to the rise of populist politics both in Europe and the Americas. Importantly, these struggles attest to the tension between failing democratic institutions and the heightening of increasingly authoritarian and cruel forms...

..., and co-mayors. In this context, the essay demonstrates, women are left with no choice but to strengthen their alliances and to radicalize their movements against the state's authoritarian regime. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 2018...

... of a “safe” society, especially in an era in which fear-mongering has helped to naturalize far-right and authoritarian systems of control. Instead, this article asks how policing is always already a violent system within the American academy and how these historical precursors normalize the current...

... in a persistent state of ending? It seems that way. Since the 1990s, there have been regular claims of its demise, whether it was the election of Bill Clinton, the Pink Tide in Latin America, the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing Eurozone debt crisis, the election of Donald Trump and other authoritarian...

..., necessitate, and nourish ressentiments. [email protected] Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. , Frenkel-Brunswik Else , Levinson Daniel J. , and Sanford R. Nevitt . The Authoritarian Personality . In collaboration with Aron Betty , Levinson Maria Hertz...

... want to address in this essay is whether and to what extent this so-called authoritarian and/or populist turn in world politics is a sign that we are entering a fascist moment. Many commentators believe that the F-word must not be used if we cannot show that history is repeating itself in exactly...

... Honni and Motha Stewart . London : Routledge , 2016 . Esen Berk and Gümüşçü Sebnem . “ Rising Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey .” Third World Quarterly 37 , no. 9 ( 2016 ): 1581 - 1606 . European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission...

... as suffering and as systematic disenfranchisement. 1 Despite my reservations, I agreed to give the talk because I realized that in this instance, as Brown suggests, the appeal to human rights was a “tactic” meant to draw international attention to the abusive powers of the authoritarian Erdoğan regime...

... history of autocratic and authoritarian rule. 9 Therefore, across the Luanda region, Projecto AGIR is for Cacuaco what PLACA (Plataforma Cazenga em Acção) and LDM (Libertadores de Mentes) are for the district of Cazenga, MUDAR is for Viana, PIKK (Plataforma de Intervenção) is for Kilamba Kiaxi...

... to live together without the permanent presence of the state, which has become unbearably pervasive. It is the everyday practice of self-government that gives rise to this process of self-education. Today it is clear that the price to pay for stability, security, and unity is too high. An authoritarian...

... the restorative fantasies of authoritarian populism (“make something great again”), Cooppan tracks the forward-looking temporalities of nation-state formation and imperialism. She notes the persistence of Eurochronology—or history's map drawn according to the linear time of empire and nation-state—in the colonial...

... of the public sphere thus leads to the fatal mistake of faith in the state , and to the resulting crisis of that very faith, a crisis that is now undeniable. Conceptions of a perfect future society installed an authoritarianism of utopia that led us to suppose that an effective appropriation of the state...

... and right-wing movements and parties from the past? Are we facing the risk that Fascism and totalitarianism will make a comeback, or are we confronting an authoritarian turn in the neoliberal governance of the world that is radically new? My aim is neither to offer definitive answers to these questions nor...

... solidarity in Korean viewers. This type of transborder art activism is not new; artists in collaboration across borders have increasingly highlighted global struggles against economic divides, ecological crises, and the rise of authoritarianism, among other causes. These contemporary solidarity movements...

... the urgent work that might have consolidated political and intellectual democratic opposition to authoritarianism. Renowned Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist Cheikh Anta Diop suggested that the conditions for the success or failure of any revolution in history, including those...

... authoritarianism. It is an everyday struggle against insanity. For people living in this world of madness, Justin Wong's art has become a lifeline. A single frame, a few strokes, a gentle scene, a spark of wisdom: these pieces tell simple truths from the heart. His forced departure from the city, like his art...