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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... instincts,’ she said, turning to the orphans, and sat on them.” 2 What critical potentials survive the ongoing catastrophe in this devastating parable? Might we consider what iterations of an anticolonial impulse persist just as imperial “benevolence” persists in our beleaguered time? What might...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of critical theory and, especially, critical praxis, leaving us disarmed today, in these unprecedented times. This essay offers a way forward by means of what it calls “counter-critical theory”: a critical method that indexes the original impulse of critical theory, but liberates it from its foundation...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
... against, realms that are overlooked by dominant logics. It is an impulse that wants to lead the letter to a moment of full perfection. Without this perfection's having borders or definitions. It is an abstraction, a sort of indeterminate, transnutritional hunger. A form of persecution that is blank...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 312–325.
Published: 01 August 2020
... uncontrollable, ebbing of any democratizing impulses expressed during recent decades. I think my work has always been pessimistic toward the present. In a certain sense, I felt like I was going against the current of the collective hopes awakened by Brazil's redemocratization and its twenty-odd years...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 300–311.
Published: 01 August 2020
... see the catastrophe the way they saw and experienced it. As renowned historian Harry Harootunian mentioned in his recent interview on his new book The Unspoken As Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives , postcolonial theory has little to offer on the genocidal impulse of historic...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and to what Wiener called “the cancer of creative narrowness and feebleness.” Beyond his strident antimilitarism, Wiener was concerned with the erosion of the creative impulse that threatened not only human desire but scientific invention as well. If information was simply appropriated by a second industrial...
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“We Have Entered a Stage of Overproduction”: The Weight of (Un)hospitality and the Performative Self
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 174–185.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... You have been subverting these kinds of fundamental distinctions for years, questioning the ways that the art system is and is not successful in securing value for the work of artists. You've associated this impulse in your work with what you call radical hospitality, where you stage relationships...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 337–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in which their relationships to colonialism and anticolonialism have been read, in favor of evaluations of their piety and how “Islamic” they are. Their writings, however, contain a different kind of engagement with anticolonialism: not a sustained meditation so much as a series of impulses, not a solid...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in these movements from the start, she contends. Quite strategically, however, the NUM (Ni Una Menos) movement transforms the force of mourning into desire, that slippery impulse that manages to bring together a political sisterhood emerging out of loss. This fundamental attachment between mourning and desire—which...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... as the decisive means to surpass the negative impulse of critique in the name of the “concrete” and the “affirmative.” 11 In order to trouble the drive to dismiss negativity (often made synonymous with poststructuralist and deconstructionist critique) as a matter of theoretical abstraction and political...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
... are they doing chez moi?” Ibid., 24. 37 Again, this development moves freedom well beyond the scope and play imagined by the neoliberal intellectuals. 38 Even the extraordinarily careful and subtle Jacqueline Rose seems to flirt with the notion that these ugly impulses are just there, deep...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in two related and complementary modes, which I will call collaborative interdisciplinarity and civic interdisciplinarity . By collaborative interdisciplinarity, I mean a constant impulse toward dialogue with those from different educational backgrounds, a genuine curiosity in the work of others...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... constraint on her, because it is not the expression of her human impulses, not the fulfilment of her human desires; because it is full of torment and without joy. She measures her situation in life by her own individuality , her essential nature , not by the ideal of what is good. In natural...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and to pitch that labor toward the world as an immanent impulse to change it. “At the very heart of critical theory,” writes Martin Jay, “was an aversion to closed philosophical systems. . . . It does not think itself capable of giving permanent answers to the age-old questions about man's condition.” 37...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 435–465.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., injustice, and death,” as we confront fragments of memories and imaginaries that are irreducible to received categories of political existence. 56 At the very least, an aesthetic representation such as this one cautions us to check the humanitarian impulse in theory and scholarship, by which I mean...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 595–616.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., Isael made the set of drawings that we present here. In these drawings, the yãmĩyxop appear as a driving force; their impulse animates Isael's work. Produced between October 2020 and March 2021, these images show some of the countless beings that are disappearing in their animal and plant forms...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 618–631.
Published: 01 December 2022
... (but useful). Undoubtedly, the impulse to dignify this type of work was a crucial aspect of the strike. To strike was, in this case, to be seen/heard, to come out of the shadows, to be recognized, and to be respected. Although street vending, domestic work, or recycling are not equivalent, they share with sex...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 198–211.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... In these crimes, capital in its contemporary form expresses the existence of an order ruled by arbitrary patriarchal impulse and exhibits the spectacle of inevitable institutional failure in the face of unprecedented levels of concentration of wealth and purchasing power. The promulgation and social...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
Published: 01 August 2019
... as an impulse to expand one's power). In fact, only one line after this passage, Spinoza returns to the conatus : “Now it is the sovereign law and right of nature ( lex summa naturae ) that each individual ( unaquaeque res ) should endeavour to preserve ( conetur perseverare ) itself as it is ( in suo statu...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in this country, situated within the story of transition from colonial to postcolonial rule. Here, through the spatial metaphor of vertical versus horizontal rule, we have framed autarky against a specific postcolonial form, autocracy, which describes the impulse toward concentration of both power and economic...
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