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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Michel Foucault power counter-critique A new journal is at issue, and indeed the only one to have overcome my firmly rooted conviction that I could never again get involved in anything like it [. . .] I cleared the way for the plan's acceptance by the publisher Rowohlt by appointing myself...
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The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Daniel Loick Abstract This article explores the normative structure of counter-communities. These communities do not simply fulfill a compensatory function for excluded or oppressed groups; their specific sociality is transcendent of society at large. The article outlines this notion...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Smith's invisible hand was, after all, truly and purposively, that is, for technical rather than ideological reasons, “invisible.” This article argues that there is a counter-positivism or tactical irony contained within the logic of such a controversial thesis; namely, that when one acknowledges...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
... anti-violence remain political? And to what extent is counter violence a form of violence that enacts a break within the space of violence itself by being oriented toward its dissolution? 4 Defining anti -violence as politics thus raises a dialectical problem as soon as one defines politics...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 530–542.
Published: 01 December 2021
... struggle can and must be fought. Relocating Amel in the specific context of the cultural and political struggle he was fighting when writing his critique of Orientalism appears indeed to be the best way to make sense of his own interpretation of Said's reading of Marx. Written in 1985, when...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and anti-caste activism in particular offer a complex interplay of caste, gender, culture, and politics in the university space, traditionally defined as neutral. Envisioning a democratic, socially just, and genuinely secular nation, historically marginalized students challenge and critique hegemonic...
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Introduction
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 347–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of historical violence, and with the recovery—or creation— of alternate archives that unleash their critical force in an unfolding present. The confluence of times, the tasks of critique and the commitment to justice are preoccupations central to the creative pieces that appear in the issue. As Bouchra...
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At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do
Open Access
Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... negative utopianism, might be reappropriated in the present political and affective moment as a performative way to put forward what Foucault, apropos of his own critique of reason, called an “art of living counter to all forms of fascism, whether already present or impending.” 21 In this section...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2023
... broke away from Hinduism. The story of Ambedkar's promise and his struggle to break free encapsulates how deeply intertwined his political and social activism for Dalits is with his work on political philosophy and the critique of the political ideology of Hinduism. In order to understand Ambedkar's...
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Stateless Memory
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 416–434.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Marianne Hirsch Abstract Responding to current conditions of statelessness by way of Hannah Arendt's mid- twentieth century reflections, this article proposes the aesthetic encounter as a practice of alternative, counter-national community and belonging. Artistic works exploring the vulnerabilities...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 85–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
... understanding of the inward-turning Arab left—that elements of the leftist critique of the 1950s survive and run counter to this loss of hope. This challenge to assumptions about the post-1967 moment materializes in the grandfather-grandson relationship between Husayn Muruwwa and Rabih Mroué. Muruwwa...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and the possibilities for opposition that might counter it. I would like to thank Andrew Arato and Massimiliano Tomba for their incredibly insightful critiques of earlier versions of this paper. I am grateful to Juan Obarrio and Judith Butler for their patience and encouragement. 20 While the trials were...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
... to which we are all relationally and differentially exposed. 4 I suggest that it is by paying attention to the political aesthetics that current feminist and women's movements are mobilizing—an aesthetics that resonates with the exposure and critique of vulnerability—that one can shed light...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as the object of critique and analysis. Through a reading of Gandhi and Fanon, the authors argue that anticolonialism, while engaged in a critique of the West, also had a positive or reconstructive theoretical agenda, one that has been taken up in creative ways in postcolonial political thought. Taking cues...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to a critique of historicism, then to a disavowal of history, on to postcolonial criticism, and ultimately to a cosmopolitical stance. It suggests that Guha's most important contribution to global critical theory is not his historiographical achievements but his unique phenomenology of time. Mobilizing both...
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Mahdi Amel on Edward Said: Mechanisms of Expansion in the Reproduction of Knowledge and Capital
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 501–508.
Published: 01 December 2021
... disenchantment with Marxism—accentuated further by the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90)—and the resurgence of culturalist discourses of Arab authenticity and nativist claims of Islamic fundamentalism. While many intellectuals began a process of self-critique by making Arab thought and society the object...
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The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Marc Crépon; Micol Bez Abstract The object of this article is to show how, at the beginning of his essay “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Walter Benjamin uses the questions of the right to strike and law of war to exemplify the way in which the state monopoly has no other goal than to preserve...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 320–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Petar Bojanić; Edward Ðjordević Abstract In paragraph 18 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” the terms life , living , and violence , and the relations among them, complicate Walter Benjamin's justification of divine violence—his text's main discovery. This article seeks to reconstruct Benjamin's...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 295–305.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky Abstract Walter Benjamin's critique of violence assumes that violence is deeply intertwined with the division of time and space. Niobe serves as an example that allows Benjamin to give an account of the violent conditions of the order of time that is constituted under...
View articletitled, Niobe and Korah, Different Orders of Time: A Commentary on Paragraphs 14–17 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span> of Violence”
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2019
... for the global market. Despite these rapid transformations and counter-transformations, the question of what constitutes modern knowledge and education has continued to haunt Indian academics, in a particular form that goes back to the early twentieth century. A critique of “Western” knowledge had...
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