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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 68–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the spread of his proposals, the Robinsonades, and their validation by ostensibly scientific discourses which have asserted their truth value over and above that of literary fictions. In closing, it demonstrates Townsend's own grounding in fiction, and considers the role the shaping power of literature might...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 327–357.
Published: 01 December 2020
... life itself. This shift, from protecting bodies to protecting life, is related to resilience's biopolitical matrix, which mediates between the molecular fiction of life and an ecological eschatology. The essay concludes, in the first place, that the discourse of resilience entails a naturalization...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , and Rumsey Alan . “ Introduction: Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology and the Opacity of Other Minds .” Anthropological Quarterly 81 , no. 2 ( 2008 ): 407 – 20 . rodríguez freire raúl . “ Of Goats, Theorems, and Laws: Fictions Adrift .” Translated by Núñez Paco Brito . Critical...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., staying alive, and struggling for democracy. As someone trained in philosophy and literature, someone who works with texts, language, arguments, fictions, and ideals, I want to insist that the value of the humanities has to be part of any effort to defend both critical thought and academic freedom...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., such as Rughonath Vaishnavi and Prem Nath Bazaz, were Kashmiri Pandits who supported the movement for an independent Kashmir. 3. Prominent in this memorial archive are the fictional, cinematic, and editorial works of Siddhartha Gigoo and his father Arvind Gigoo; Rahul Pandita's memoir Our Moon Has Blood...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle . Oakland : PM Press , 2012 . Power Nina . One-Dimensional Woman . London : Zero Books , 2009 . Rooney Ellen . “ Feminists Reading Novels, Now, and Again, and Again .” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 50 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 441...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 66–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Litman Leah , Murray Melissa , and Shaw Kate . “ Justice Samuel A-leak-o? ” November 21, 2022 , in Strict Scrutiny , podcast, 42:43. https://crooked.com/podcast/justice-samuel-a-leak-o/ . Litman Leah , Murray Melissa , and Shaw Kate . “ Turning Fan Fiction...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 479–492.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Neither a documentary nor fiction, but a hypothesis, The Tempest Society follows three individuals from different backgrounds—Isavella, Elias, and Giannis—that form a theater group by the same name in present-day Athens. They gather in a former warehouse turned into a theatrical space, to examine...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 106–132.
Published: 01 April 2019
... not be understood as giving up on the search for truth. As he argues in his posthumous fragments, the search for truth is something we must not renounce, and although the world consists of fictions—that is, although the world is a great fiction—there are some fictions that are more real than others. 43 Moreover...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 320–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., the Judaism with which Benjamin occasionally flirts, often ineptly—all fuel his argument and the justification of the idea regarding a new or different kind of violence, apart from the kind recognized by legal theory. The fiction of mere or bare life ( das blosse Leben )—that is, a life that seems...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 233–262.
Published: 01 August 2021
... “sub-Saharan” migrants are, for their part, confined to trying at night to climb, 7 like sci-fi heroes or Spider-Man, the seven-meter-high wall that separates the North African forests from Spain. Here, futurism (which borrows heavily from the imagination of science fiction) and archaism form...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 237–259.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Trier's film Melancholia (2011); and Chi Ta-Wei's queer- and trans-themed speculative fiction, in which life continues on an uninhabitable planet in biospheres. From these examples, it would seem that humans are unable to live without spheres just as a person cannot live without an immune system...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 202–216.
Published: 01 April 2022
... “SF”—storying, fictions, science, speculation, fabulation—as tools to think with in this space, and there are some novel experiments emerging using these tools to envisage new university futures in the second horizon (including, for example, Dylan McGarry and colleagues' “Pluriversity for Stuck Humxns...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 289–303.
Published: 01 August 2023
... opens with a traumatic prologue. It is 1969. Burner (Brandon Oakes) and Anna (Roseanne Supernault) are in a kitchen on the fictional Red Crow Reserve. He sits at the table, rolling a joint; she stands by the stove, making toast. Anna's husband, Joseph (Glenn Gould), enters with a case of beer. Burner...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of colonial warfare produces humanist fantasies of savagery and death that uphold a fiction and allows the state to control and target peoples and worlds. The border thereby forgets its metaphysical nature and seeks to become reality: the site of creation of the “reality” of citizenship as a historical...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 131–147.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Nations , xvi. 6. Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Movement , 8 . 7. Halim, “The Pre-postcolonial and its Enduring Relevance,” 83 , drawing on Halim, “Third Worldist and Internationalist Thematics in Edwar al-Kharrat's Fiction.” For some of the relevant scholarship on the cultural aspect...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... connotations such as witches or Medea (the mother who killed her children), Latin American women's movements have been equally inspired by fictional and mythical characters of transgression such as La Malinche, the native polyglot woman given as a trophy of conquest to Hernan Cortés, and Antigone, a “feminine...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
... became possible when boundless conquest and exploitation started undermining not just the nation-state or the rule of law, but also the very distinction between law and exception, war and peace, soldier and civilian, perpetrator and victim, fact and fiction. The importance of colonial and imperialist...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 493–517.
Published: 01 December 2019
... engaged in behaviors that are embedded within processes of animistic projection. The absolute threshold between the human, the animal, and the object has increasingly been understood as an anthropocentric fiction that props up instrumental reason. Harry Garuba has made a compelling claim: “How do we...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 434–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
... mutations, though the fictional story of The Accused has a “happy” ending that I will predictably elide even as I doubt that someone could be interested in a movie about rape as if it were a simple police procedural (or could one?). Butler adduces examples of how desire and love make contracts flimsy...
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