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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 April 2020
...David Lloyd Abstract This essay addresses Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” to draw out the implications of the paradox he notes, that an exercise of a right, if it calls into question the legitimacy of the legal order, can be perceived by the state as violent, even where it is, strictly...
View articletitled, From the <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span> of Violence to the <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span> of Rights
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
... trajectories for critique in an effort to oppose censorship, the criminalization of knowledge, and the destruction of both academic freedom and the politics of dissent. Focusing on recent attacks on gender studies, the essay argues that new alliances must be forged on a transnational model to support academic...
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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
... substitution.” 2 To introduce this special issue on “Critique and Translation,” I want to linger with this Fanonian substitution and ask what sort of act it would be and what sense of the social it would give. It is an act that does not promise a “transition” but only its own mere taking place...
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Abolition Pedagogy: Force Fields of Critique
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Kelly Gillespie; Leigh-Ann Naidoo Abstract As the South African student movement of 2015–16 began to develop a deeper critique of the character of the transition out of apartheid and its minimal effect on the institutions of colonialism and apartheid, the administrators of postapartheid...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 114–142.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jeffrey Sacks Abstract This article addresses the work of the German-language philosopher and theorist Theodor W. Adorno and the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum in order to ask after the form of the subject and the sense of life privileged in critique. I consider the form of the subject...
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View articletitled, “The Visual Poetry of the Work”: <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span>, Form, and Life in the Art of Mona Hatoum and the Language of Theodor Adorno
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 85–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Maya Issam Kesrouany Abstract This article explores the theory and practice of critique in the works of the Lebanese Communist intellectual Husayn Muruwwa (1910–1987) and his grandson Rabih Mroué (b. 1967). Husayn Muruwwa, one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the second half...
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Critique as Care
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 13–22.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Judith , and Mahmood Saba . Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . Butler Judith . “ What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue .” Transversal Texts , May 2001 . eipcp.net/transversal/0806/butler/en...
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Prefatory Remarks: Crisis and Critique
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Critical Times inaugural issue crisis critique This inaugural issue of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts at once marked by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and the emergence...
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The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
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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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Conscription and Critique
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 270–284.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Başak Ertür Abstract This article focuses on the discussion of general conscription in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay “Toward the Critique of Violence.” In the essay, Benjamin presents conscription or compulsory military service alongside his discussions of police violence and capital punishment...
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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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The Curious Case of Baruch Spinoza in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
Published: 01 August 2019
... where Benjamin quotes a text of Spinoza's, albeit between the lines, is in “Toward the Critique of Violence” (1921). Still, in this essay Benjamin is far from enthusiastic about the author of the Ethics . He names Spinoza as a proponent of natural law theory, which Benjamin dismisses in his search...
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The Politics of Pure Means: On Paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Dario Gentili Abstract This article is focused on the analysis of paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” The article focuses on two sets of fundamental claims: those addressing the function of the police within the legal order of the state and those addressing...
View articletitled, The Politics of Pure Means: On Paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span> of Violence”
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 330–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Pablo Oyarzún Abstract This article offers a reading of the concluding paragraph of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” It discusses Benjamin's assertion that only a philosophical-historical approach can provide the key to a critique of violence in light of his essay's discussion...
View articletitled, Law, Violence, History: A Brief Reading of the Last Paragraph of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span> of Violence”
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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...
View articletitled, “Leben und Gewalt” or “Gewalt und Leben”: A Commentary on Paragraph 18 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the <span class="search-highlight">Critique</span> of Violence”
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 552–559.
Published: 01 December 2021
... features with Mahdi Amel's, as well as with the critique articulated by the Syrian intellectual Sadik Jalal al-ʿAzm, 14 Aijaz Ahmed captured the dramatic character of Marx's vision of the nexus between colonial dispossession and the future of revolution. What Said dismissed as a “Romantic redemptive...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 202–216.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Keri Facer Abstract This essay argues that thinking about university futures requires not only practices of critique and desire, but practices of rigorous and reflexive imagination. Building on Bill Sharpe's three horizons framework, it argues that debates about university futures are dominated...
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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 (2): 324–344.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Amaryah Shaye Armstrong Abstract This essay argues that critiques of redemption in contemporary black theory necessitate a rethinking of black theology in terms of loss so as to upend the political theological order of redemption and damnation that justifies antiblack governance of thought...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
... so attractive to contemporary scholars—her revolutionary radicalism, her accounts of spontaneity and democracy, and her critique of imperialism—are undergirded by her commitment to that theory, along with its commitments to unilinearity, necessity, and progress. This theory provides the systematic...
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