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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 15–38.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Lucie K. Mercier Abstract Fanon considered that colonial alienation produced multiple forms of relational pathologies, many of which expressed themselves in and through blockages in communication rather than through explicit conflict. Exposing the role of language as a vector of racial violence...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is a broader exploration of how “other” languages take place in postcolonial theory—not only Said and Spivak's German, but Abdelfattah Kilito's Italian and Frantz Fanon's Arabic. What is the place of translation in self-representation? How do instances of textual citation complicate the self of self...
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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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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2024
... intentions of those involved, and the material conditions of the people they need to reach. Movimiento X la Lengua is an ongoing series of the project, one that brings together people and communities that are fighting for, through, with language. In these books, language became not only the tools...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 337–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Alexandra Délano Alonso [email protected] © 2024 Alexandra Délano Alonso 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). James Baldwin writes that “a language comes into existence by means of brutal necessity...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 167–178.
Published: 01 August 2023
... with language loss, without losing the capacity for laughter and joyfulness. The arts of the trickster are his answer. For Rush, the question is: what changes can we be making now to head off crisis, and what language can make such change meaningful and desirable? We also see the two writers striving to make...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 401–402.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Charles Hirschkind Abstract In the lead essay to this special section, Talal Asad explores some of the avenues opened up by Wittgenstein's work for students of religion. Highlighting some of the philosopher's key insights on the life of language, Asad argues that, instead of taking the opposition...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 436–463.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of this illegibility drives this essay. While the radically egalitarian potential of Gandhi's language has not been substantively inherited by any significant group in the political sphere today, Godse's language has found many heirs in India as well as in other countries. [email protected] © 2023...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Misty G. Anderson Abstract If the twenty-first-century university is to repent of its racist past and present in order to become something other than an instrument of late capitalism, it will need conceptual space and language that break from the neoliberal and Enlightenment frameworks many faculty...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 632–644.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... This essay, drawing on many years of participation in popular politics in the city of Durban, shows that the road blockade is often, although not always, articulated to a politics presented in the language of dignity and marked by defiant humanism. Works Cited Freire Paulo . The Pedagogy...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 445–475.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that marks it even among the left, and open it instead onto those cases of anticolonial politics that did not play out, at least initially, as a desire for the forward march of progress and its terminus in the state form? In these cases, how do we move past the language, or more precisely, the grammar...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 200–223.
Published: 01 August 2020
... it, but they do so by staying close to the kind of obscenity characteristic of sensationalism. The last segment of the essay revisits Elaine Scarry's seminal analysis of the relationship between language and pain. It offers a frame of interpretation for the most disturbing moments in sensationalism...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 413–435.
Published: 01 December 2023
... on a planetary scale. They conclude by affirming collective struggles against this campaign and calling for a language beyond anthropocentrism. [email protected] © 2023 Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Jean-Daniel Lafontant, and Moira Ivana Millán 2023 This is an open access article distributed under...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... modern and nonmodern semiotic, grammatological, and aesthetic traditions, Guha reconceived time as a function of the limits and possibilities of human language and argued that common lives and subaltern subjects could not be accessed without admitting to the heterogenous temporal constitution—“time-knots...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
...-making and a conception of life beyond its adjudication in the language of “rights.” Critically engaging with the work of Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti, the author argues that sperm smuggling enacts an “affirmation of life” that refuses submission to the totalizing hold of physical, social...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., in the giving of a sense of relation, language, and life distinct from that coerced by the settler. And it is an act that refuses the social forms privileged through the state, rights, the subject, and the law as it calls into being a sociality in collective, inidentical struggle. The being that does or acts...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 443–449.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in “learning to live another form of life and to speak another kind of language.” 4 Asad is of course renowned for his critique of “the pseudoscientific notion of ‘fieldwork,’” 5 for his “general opinion” that “the rich historical tradition of anthropology is unduly narrowed if it is defined simply...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
... necessarily based on a theory about the world; it is first and foremost a way of being. His critical reading of Frazer marks a moment in the development of his questioning of the way the world is imagined essentially as a collection of things and language as essentially the means of representing them...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 471–477.
Published: 01 December 2020
... essay on body techniques. Mauss's work, he argued in this essay on the concept of ritual, opened up the possibility of “inquiring into the ways in which embodied practices (including language in use) form a precondition for varieties of religious experience. The inability to enter into communion...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 227–243.
Published: 01 August 2023
... but in my surviving language ( ma langue survivante ). Yes, there still are such survivor languages, pursuing their phantomatic existence throughout the world. Their survival is certainly phantomatic, but it is also symptomatic. They are symptoms of the sovereignty of languages. Sovereign languages pay them...