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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 108–119.
Published: 01 April 2018
... is between direct democracy and representative democracy. 34 Posing the question of the alternative between representative democracy and direct democracy means having already opted for the former, claiming as justification that it is the only political form appropriate for a large state. This objection...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 466–478.
Published: 01 December 2019
... for a pluralistic society to function well, pluralism must not only operate as a political system with policies encouraging toleration and coexistence among different ethnicities; it must also operate as a social principle of real equity, social justice, and direct democracy. For the last sixty-three years...
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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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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the political, surpassing the limits of liberal democracy either through electoral votes supporting conservative populisms or through protest and direct action in collective assemblies tending toward progressive politics and renewed forms of popular sovereignty. An examination of these dynamics at work...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
... authoritarianism constituent power democracy When the Republic was proclaimed in France during the revolution, the National Convention adopted a calendar that started anew. Napoleon abolished it once he was crowned Emperor. Although this experiment with a republican calendar was short-lived, the gesture...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 80–98.
Published: 01 April 2018
... , on the alacrity with which the government followed the Supreme Court's directions to transform the nature of Delhi. 78 See Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope , on the contexts in which court orders are ignored in liberal democracies. 79 For a parallel, see Wilson, The Politics. 80 See...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
...—the crux of political democracy as a sovereign form—getting an especially militant makeover in the direction of a social democracy that would simultaneously protect the marginalized and the oppressed. But elsewhere, Ambedkar reads political and social democracy otherwise—not through belief and idealist...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... It is in this sense that we must understand both democratic pluralism and actually existing late capitalist liberalism, which has nothing to do with democracy or ideological liberalism or liberal politics. Originally published in Spanish in Willy Thayer, El fragmento repetido: Escritos en estado de excepción...
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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 (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of Empire , 185 . 42. Allen, The End of Progress , 33 . 43. Allen, The End of Progress , 76 . 44. Tully, Democracy and Civic Freedom , 72 . 45. Foucault, The Uses of Pleasure , 8–9 , quoted in Tully, “Deparochializing,” 51 . 46. See Tully, Imperialism and Civic...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 121–128.
Published: 01 April 2022
... universities (should) function, or it is a direct attack on democracy as it has evolved in universities. What is at stake, then, is this very defining characteristic of universities. The imposition of quantifiable categories such as efficiency, productivity, cost-effectiveness, and standards-driven policy...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 99–107.
Published: 01 April 2018
... 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 is not the same as the crisis of democracy. Or, put differently: capitalism...
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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 (2022) 5 (1): 87–96.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... [email protected] © 2022 Christopher Newfield 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). higher education neoliberalism globalization civil rights racial equality racism democracy middle class governance...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
....” 56. Gilmore, Golden Gulag , 14 . 57. Davis, Abolition Democracy , 107–8 . 58. Abdulla Ibrahim, pers. corr., Fugard Theatre, Cape Town, January 17, 2019. Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory . Translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . Minneapolis...
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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 (2022) 5 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... justice,’” social democracy, and even formal inclusion and equality are animated and fueled by “the resentments . . . of aggrieved power.” 3 And Joseph Vogl has just recently titled his “short theory of the present” Capitalism and Ressentiment , 4 taking ressentiment to be the fundamental outcome...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 370–395.
Published: 01 December 2019
... a specific and effective dominance. It is necessary to examine how these relate to the whole cultural process rather than only to the selected and abstracted dominant system. —Raymond Williams The term aftermaths in the title of this issue directs attention toward historical and political...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
Published: 01 August 2019
... is contemporary with “Toward the Critique of Violence” or immediately postdates it, 3 although there are few if any direct connections between the two texts. In that fragment, which may also be a scheme for the odd “Theologico-Political Fragment,” there is much ado about the Leib , the physical body, and less...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 436–463.
Published: 01 December 2023
... specifically of Balibar—to draw attention to the significance and necessity of practices and movements of disidentification , of internal spacing and the dissolution of fetishized collectivities, and even of political “representation” as opposed to the idealization of an immanent community in democracy. 14...
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