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Hostages to Democracy
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 80–98.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Nandini Sundar Abstract This article explores the aporias of democracy to show how both procedural and substantive democracy, or at least certain constructions of “need,” operate to render the lives of sections of the citizenry precarious. More specifically, in the context of an ongoing civil war...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 588–594.
Published: 01 December 2021
... a relaxing Tadaasana in the morning and I turn my head to [the] right, India is the first democracy I see and when Modi does a relaxing Vasisthasana and he turns left, Israel is the first democracy he can see. So in fact we have in India and Israel two sister democracies.” 1 It is not difficult to see...
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Neoliberalism's Frankenstein: Authoritarian Freedom in Twenty-First Century “Democracies”
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
...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...
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Who's Afraid of the Imperative Mandate?
Open Access
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 (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Leticia Sabsay Abstract Contemporary transnational times are characterized by renewed struggles over the meaning of democracy. In this postdemocratic moment, political and cultural practices and popular mobilizations and demands have exceeded, and ultimately questioned, some of representative...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Philipp Sperner Abstract This article engages with B. R. Ambedkar as political philosopher and key contributor to debates on global democracy and the genealogy of democratic ideas outside the West. I focus specifically on Ambedkar's use of Buddhist philosophy and the concept of śūnyatā (emptiness...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Gaurav J. Pathania Abstract The university space, the most endangered zone in Indian democracy in the present, is witnessing the ideological churnings, contradictions, and emergent possibilities of affinity among radical voices contesting culturally hegemonic practices. Student activism in general...
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University Rankings: A Dead End
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 121–128.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., restructures working time, imposes styles of reading, affects teaching, and dictates new research practices. But above all, the rearticulations of democracy due to the digital condition will mark the new state of the universities. And such a prospect can perhaps be defined within Bill Sharpe's three horizons...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of critical theory, linking its practices of reading and judgment to the kinds of inquiry and forms of living that sustain the ideals of democracy. [email protected] © 2022 Judith Butler 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND...
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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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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 377–401.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Hieyoon Kim Abstract Since the military coup in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, South Korean artists and exhibit makers have tapped into the power of art activism to support the Burmese struggle for democracy. This essay pays special attention to two of the earliest exhibitions held in Gwangju...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the self-ruling Indian village as the cornerstone of a radically decentralized polity, an alternative basis of individual self-rule and true democracy. Whether one accepts the substantive conclusions of Fanon's or Gandhi's analyses, what is noteworthy is that both frame the problem of Eurocentrism...
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The Subaltern and the Minor: For Qadri Ismail
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
... book, Abiding by Sri Lanka , is spurred by the questioning of “not just the necessity or practicality but the very ethicality of what is arguably the founding structural principle of representative democracy: majority rule.” For him, such a questioning includes the “indispensable enterprise...
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Prefatory Remarks: Crisis and Critique
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to restrain the deep social exclusion and fragmentation generated by the absolutization of market logics and their production of truth. This context raises the question: how much exclusion and social conflict can liberal democracy contain, so that these processes can become immunizing elements and not deathly...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
...). university neoliberal sacred democracy humanities In this apocalyptic moment, how might we hold imaginative space for the university of what playwright James Ijames, in TJ Loves Sally 4ever , calls “the dope-ass future?” 1 That may sound gratingly optimistic as the bombshells of our times...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., The Functioning of Democratic Institutions ; and European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Turkey . 26 See Amnesty International, Report on Turkey . 27 See the statistics kept by Turkey Purge: https://turkeypurge.com/ . 28 For the increase in the prison...
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Preliminary Thoughts on Left Governmentality
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 99–107.
Published: 01 April 2018
... with each other at an existential/structural level. Capitalism and democracy are profound enemies; pushed to the ontological limit in each case, the existence of each means the other's annihilation, war to the death. In this respect, however we may define them precisely, the crisis of capitalism...
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The Non-modern Crisis of the Modern University
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
... democratic with respect to ideology and critique. But the idea that any ideology, as long as it is expressed in “civil” terms, must be included on the menu of democracy is one of the clearest symptoms of the death or decline of the ideological in the modern sense. The weakening of ideology is thus linked...
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Abolition Pedagogy: Force Fields of Critique
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., and relations devised in and for the colony—even under the tenure of a black government, black managers, and a growing black professoriate—was at the heart of the students' strike. Students insisted that there had not been a substantial break between the time of democracy and the institutionality of colonial...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 577–587.
Published: 01 December 2021
... country, the country of the Jewish nation.” 3 He added, “There will be no second-class citizens and second-class voters . . . All of us will all be equal, all of us, Jews and Arabs, all citizens of Israel.” 4 The juxtaposing of Israel's exclusively Jewish national nature and the claim of democracy...
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