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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the German language from the English. Her reading thus takes Marx less as a grammatical function in the argument than as a pivotal point from which to reflect, attenuate, and trouble the politics of transparent representation. If Said domesticates Marx into the argument of Orientalism , Spivak's...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 15–38.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Aimé Césaire, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and François Tosquelles. Secondly, the article aims to rearticulate the function of language in Fanon's theory of colonial disalienation by drawing on a specific trajectory in his clinico-political thought: from diagnoses of untranslatability or incommunicability...
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Hit the Tire: The Strike Mutates into a New Form
Open Access
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. [email protected] © 2022 Richard Pithouse...
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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 (3): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2024
...: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners . Montreal : Kersplebedeb , 2008 . Thiong'o Ngugi wa . Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature . London : James Currey , 1987 . Rahemtulla Shadaab , ed. “ The Future of Islamic...
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Revolution after Revolution: The Commune as Line of Flight in Palestinian Anticolonialism
Open Access
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 (2024) 7 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and inaugurates a practice of life-making and a conception of life beyond its adjudication in the language of “rights” and the “right to life.” To further elaborate on this point, I refer to political prisoner Walid Daqqah's statement that the birth of his daughter Milad, of sperm smuggled from Ayalon prison...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 131–147.
Published: 01 April 2020
...) mediation in sometimes fraught situations that might put them at risk, and develop hands-on expertise in the politics of translation. Long before “Arabic was introduced as an official language of the UN on 18 December 1973,” it had become “a language of international conferences as early as 1955...
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Thinking across Traditions of Thought
Open Access
Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 450–455.
Published: 01 December 2020
... bound together by some fundamental practices. All of this makes for a relatively vibrant tradition, albeit one facing significant challenges. European political theory and philosophy, by contrast, remains deeply limited in its engagement beyond a relatively narrow canon, despite, or perhaps because...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2019
... displacement by relentlessly neoliberal regimes, corruption, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, homophobic politics, cutbacks in education budgets, anti-worker policies, and rampant caste-based discrimination. Radical critics had characterized this as permitting a harmless venting of anger while...
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The Destruction of Loss: An Introduction
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the dilemmas of what Peter Osborne calls “epistemological melancholia” that arise from the problem of abstraction ( “Reproach of Abstraction,” 22 ). 36. Vizenor, Survivance . 37. Consider this response by Nichanian when asked to identify the surviving language of which he writes: Ach...
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The Sovereign, the Survivor, the Last Man
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 227–243.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., these are entirely historical words and concepts, introduced during the eighteenth century. At the end of that century, the reality that had first appeared in the political domain was quickly transported into the literary domain through widespread translation among what subsequently became the sovereign languages...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 224–248.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of war themselves—as they are turned into symbols of political dominance of subjugated populations in the hands of wartime victors. It is, however, the next and notably often neglected sentence from this passage in his “Theses on the Philosophy of History” that draws attention to the longue durée...
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Feminine Desire, Feminist Politics
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by new political languages and organizational forms in determinate political-historical conjunctures, once and again emancipatory thought pays its pound of flesh. The more radical the political and ontological stakes of its claims, the neater the packaging of Third World feminism and the tidier its...
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Introduction: Nonsense—Critique for the Times
Open Access
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 (2022) 5 (1): 241–248.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., the articulation of common claims and demands shape transnational cognitive frames. 22 Through processes of political translation, facilitated by the use of digital communication, a specific language is developed and reproduced across borders. 23 Italian feminists adopted, for example, the Spanish slogan...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
... makes the cultivation of this capacity increasingly difficult if not impossible? Beyond the forms of extreme violence that the internalization of capital produces, is not the language in which even revolutionary politics is formulated in opposition to ethics part of the problem? Ethical claims certainly...
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The Non-modern Crisis of the Modern University
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the modern university arrived with the dictatorship—that is, with the transition. Chilean sociologists including José Joaquín Brunner and Manuel Antonio Garretón and, later, members of the political class under the influence of the dominant language of the social sciences used the word transition to refer...
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Lessons for Losing
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 167–178.
Published: 01 August 2023
... with the occasion, it was performative and political. “I am a full-blooded Cree Indian,” he announced to his audience of Latin Americans, US Americans, and Canadians. “My mother tongue, the language I grew up in, the language I most often dream in, is one of the most beautiful languages that has ever existed...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 200–223.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of investigative exposé later perfected in early twentieth-century magazines like McClure's . An aspiration to social resonance and political relevance can also be found later in sensationalist newspapers in Latin America, which began publishing on the scale of their English-language counterparts just...
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