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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Bernard E. Harcourt Abstract Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht's short-lived project for a critical theory journal, Krise und Kritik , foundered in 1931 on the shoals of positivism. Since then, a series of anti-foundational challenges to traditional critical theory has fragmented the landscape...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... as a resource for making sense of the question of possibility and for developing a conception of critical subjectivity. To question what critical theory might still do in the present treats critique as an experience of the im-possible, and yet as a transformative force for shifting the conditions of possibility...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Gurminder K. Bhambra Abstract Theorists working within the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory have not been immune to calls to “decolonize” that have been circulating in and beyond the academic world. This article asks what it means to seek to decolonize a tradition of thought that has...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Wilson Chacko Jacob Abstract History has been difficult to dislodge from its colonial trajectory in spite of at least a half-century of post-Orientalist critique. Accordingly, a critical theory that is genuinely global in its lineaments is difficult to establish as practice without more decolonial...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Judith Butler Abstract The recent attack on academic programs and scholars is an effort to shut down critical thought, attesting to the link between critical theory and social transformation. Following Frantz Fanon's meditation on how questioning implicates embodied life, this essay lays out three...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 December 2021
... readership is twofold: it sheds light on the work of an influential and widely read Arabic critical social theorist and philosopher; and the translation of this critical theoretical work from “the margin” opens up central epistemological and conceptual problems in Marxist theory and its relation...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
... novels by Joseph Conrad and V.S. Naipaul, to a video installation and essay by the South African artist William Kentridge, to the critical study of the Indian Ocean world. Traversing literature, art, critical theory, and personal story, the essay provides an imaginative and imagistic guide to new ways...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
... backbone for Luxemburg's thought. In the wake of postcolonial, Indigenous, Black, and feminist critiques of the Marxist theory of history, this feature of Luxemburg's work considerably complicates her legacy for contemporary critical theory. [email protected] © 2024 Amy Allen 2024 This is an open...
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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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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Carlos Palacios Abstract Critical theory has long resisted the notion that an “invisible hand” can operate within the real social dynamics of a free market. But despite the most radical desires of the socially critical imagination, the optimization of that “spontaneous order” or depersonalized way...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 517–539.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... The article develops a hermeneutics of benthic becoming at intersections in literary studies, critical theory, cultural geography, and recent subsea turns in the oceanic (and more broadly environmental) humanities. Wrecky concretion, I argue, configures the thickening presences of empire's remains...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 319–325.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Natalia Brizuela; Samera Esmeir; Alyosha Goldstein; Rebecca Schreiber Abstract This section presents selected contributions to the workshop “Relations beyond Colonial Borders: Indigeneity, Racialization, Hospitality,” convened by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs at the Three...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and anti-Muslim sentiments, as they are articulated in populist movements all over the globe in varying constellations and to different degrees? This essay argues that, although it is a productive category for the diagnosis of our times, ressentiment alone is too weak a tool for critical theory. In order...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
... dialectics of art. Critically focusing on Adorno's discussion of “the ideal of blackness” in Aesthetic Theory , this article will argue that such decoupling remains incomplete, that he resolutely did not believe in the transformative force of art, and that these issues are connected, at least in Adorno's...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 85–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the emergence of a theory of critique from a practice of literary and cultural criticism in Muruwwa's work. This theory assumed a post-socialist consciousness while fully recognizing the absence of a socialist reality. Muruwwa uses the Arabic word naqd to refer both to applied criticism—a materialist practice...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 324–344.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of Religion . 2nd ed. Aurora, CO : Davies Group , 1999 . McDowell Deborah E . “ Reading Family Matters .” In Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women , edited by Wall Cheryl , 75 – 97 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 1989...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Robin Celikates Abstract Violence manifests as a force that dissects: it disjoins, divides, breaks up lives and bodies, communities, the environment. It also constitutes a field of forces that theory, in its critical registers, is trying to dissect, to anatomize, to take apart, to lay open, to open...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 337–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Murad Idris Abstract Recent decades have seen a turn toward colonialism and anticolonial thought in the discipline of political theory. This turn has done the crucial work of bringing questions of dispossession, racialization, and the critical imaginaries of marginalized bodies of thought...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of financial capital by means of more centralized, faster decision-making processes that bypass democratic protocols (as in Brazil, India, or Turkey). Let us briefly consider how the essays gathered in this issue engage some of these processes, while recasting the intellectual traditions of critical theory...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., 2005–2017 .” South African Crime Quarterly , no. 63 ( 2018 ): 27 – 42 . Allen Amy . The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . Allen Amy . “ Adorno, Foucault, and the End of Progress...
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