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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Willy Thayer; Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This article offers a synthesis of the book La crisis no moderna de la universidad moderna and reconsiders many of its main claims, without, however, rehearsing the conceptual history that the book develops. These claims bear...
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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 (2023) 6 (2): 324–344.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and existence. Through an immanent reading of political theology's appearance in ostensibly secular black feminist thought, the article shows how these wayward metabolizations of black theology's internal and external contradictions—specifically, those that illuminate a fundamental crisis of meaning at its...
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Published: 01 December 2022
figure 2 . Protesters gather in Beirut demanding the prime minister's resignation amid a historically unprecedented financial crisis. Dar Al Sayyad .
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 108–119.
Published: 01 April 2018
... as a response to the crisis of the representative democracy. This essay locates the insurgent legacy of the imperative mandate in the Paris Commune, in the German councils, and in the Zapatistas’ practice of mandar obedeciendo (rule by obeying), in order to consider possible democratic alternatives...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., I investigate how a process of restoration has been transformed into a process of remaking the polity. In light of the crisis of hegemony of political Islamism, I explore both the nationalist politics of division that is mobilized to sustain the movement toward Turkey's “second” founding...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 99–107.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Stathis Gourgouris Abstract In the manufactured politics of crisis that we see increasingly in many societies around the world, the question of what politics can overcome the impasse of so-called democratic rule, which serves as a cover for the domination of liberal oligarchies, has become urgent...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 528–533.
Published: 01 December 2020
... mobilizations for achieving the goals of political movements. The piece also situates these two experiences in the broader context of post-financial-crisis left politics; the conclusion builds on Stuart Hall's reflections on Thatcherism and highlights the need for strategic thinking to link disparate struggles...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... not to lose its force and not to become a psychologizing and individualizing interpretative term, ressentiment needs to be understood as a mode of regression and therefore should be embedded in a theoretical framework for understanding crisis that allows us to address the social structures that enable...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 370–398.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Michael Degani Abstract This essay offers an ethnographic analysis of Tanzania's electrical power crisis in 2011 and the national disposition to endure suffering that it seemed to make evident. It shows that in asking citizens to suffer the near-total breakdown of the power supply in good faith...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 167–178.
Published: 01 August 2023
... with language loss, without losing the capacity for laughter and joyfulness. The arts of the trickster are his answer. For Rush, the question is: what changes can we be making now to head off crisis, and what language can make such change meaningful and desirable? We also see the two writers striving to make...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
... deployment of interpretation and resignification. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). crisis critique Walter Benjamin...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to include an image with this essay that would help me organize my thoughts. But words and images are insufficient. In times of debt and austerity, these are also in crisis. Words, in their fragility, hardly serve to imitate an impossible extension of the cuerpas 1 that we manage to constellate...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 183–201.
Published: 01 April 2022
... production, the university is, itself, in crisis, in a world that is in crisis. The two sides are deeply interconnected, as the crisis of the world is the crisis of a particular mode of existence and world making, to which the University-form of knowledge production (hereafter, the U-form) has greatly...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 280–303.
Published: 01 August 2024
... 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 figures, or Brexit. 1 A few years after each event that has supposedly signaled its end...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 435–465.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that, for a time at least, arrested the technocratic rhetoric of swarms, waves, tides and flows associated with the so-called refugee crisis. 1 The photograph's circulation on social media (20 million views in twelve hours) even tilted the balance, again for a time, toward using the term refugee rather than...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 170–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... expenses in response to the fiscal crisis that was approaching, substantial cuts in public funds for gender equality programs were also pointed out. 5 These cuts and reductions in funds destined for the prevention of gender violence have continued since the government's fiscal crisis was declared. 6...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 April 2019
... level of conflict that characterizes the political situation in Argentina, which is embodied in, among other things, the crystallization of two new political alliances—Macrismo and Kirchnerism—in the aftermath of the 2001 crisis, we find it useful to complicate the hypothesis that posits a radical...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the context created by global financial crisis. 2 In their magisterial account of the history of “the invisible hand” before Adam Smith, Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman map the multiple ways in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europeans started to think in terms of spontaneous self-organization...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 189–194.
Published: 01 August 2023
... asks: “How might we conceptualize coral bleaching, and more general ecological destruction, as an effect of colonial racism (vulnerability negated through violence) that is ‘World’ building (Worlding)?” Attending to this Worlding, Hayward reads ecological destruction as the “crisis necessary to ensure...
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