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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Layal Ftouni Abstract How is life affirmed under conditions of death, destruction, and debilitation? This article addresses this question by looking at the practice of sperm smuggling in Palestine as a life-affirming practice. The practice of sperm smuggling emerges in a context where reproductive...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Alawi. The critical potentiality of this life will be extrapolated into the present by considering the death-defying horizons opened by the newly expanded repertoire available to a mystical tradition, which allows reflection on the anticolonial as an ontology refused and yet a promise. Finally...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the case for a general theory of the ethical life of counter-communities and applies it to the examples of queer and diasporic forms of collectivity. In closing, the article explores the success conditions of counter-collectivization as well as names some social-theoretical implications. Works Cited...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 233–262.
Published: 01 August 2021
... happens when bodily growth, heart rate, respiration, and body heat are integrated into technologies for the detection of life with a view to their measurement (biometrics) and the constitution of a database needed for border surveillance? What happens when life is turned against itself? How to disobey...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Judith Butler Abstract The recent attack on academic programs and scholars is an effort to shut down critical thought, attesting to the link between critical theory and social transformation. Following Frantz Fanon's meditation on how questioning implicates embodied life, this essay lays out three...
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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 (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 (2019) 2 (2): 320–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Petar Bojanić; Edward Ðjordević Abstract In paragraph 18 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” the terms life , living , and violence , and the relations among them, complicate Walter Benjamin's justification of divine violence—his text's main discovery. This article seeks to reconstruct Benjamin's...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of social precarization and exclusion. Against these murderous trends, which this article characterizes as marked by an aesthetics of cruelty, some of these struggles foreground the vulnerable character of life and the embodied dimension of politics and its affective domains. This article focuses...
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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 (2018) 1 (1)
Published: 01 April 2018
...Fiamma Montezemolo Abstract In her experimental twenty-minute video-essay , the artist and anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo combines fieldwork-based research and art to create a meditation on border life between the United States and Mexico. Based on years of ethnographic work in Tijuana...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 268–269.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... Those who strike investigate and activate resistances and disobediences, the production of alternate forms of life, and rebellious bodies. Those who organize—women, lesbians, trans people, feminized bodies of the world—seek to propagate a virus of defiance. In a demonstration of force...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
... with their claim to cultivate traditional values and restore order? This paper reflects on the complex recent histories—of neoliberalism, of nihilism, and of what Marcuse termed “repressive desublimation”—that generate the force and legitimacy of this novel development in Euro-Atlantic political life. Licensed...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 209–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Peter Fenves Abstract This article shows that Walter Benjamin's initial characterization of the “sphere of moral relations” as divided by two mutually exclusive poles, law and justice, without a mediating third term such as “ethical life” or “moral education,” generates the basis for his critique...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 295–305.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of Korah receive a new life and do not have to make amends for the guilt of their parents. Bearing in mind Niobe's guilt and her serving as “a stone marking the border ( Grenze ) between human beings and gods,” and given that Korah's children are spared after Moses has received the commandments, we can...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 306–319.
Published: 01 August 2019
... moments, when Benjamin imagines extralegal justice, or divine violence, as a de-creative force that annihilates the borders that confer the sentence of life-destroying guilt. migration border violence and policing Walter Benjamin illegal immigration fate To pass through, we pull off our limbs...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 300–311.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of focusing attention on the experiences of survivors after catastrophic experiences of genocides. The survivor as described in this interview is neither a wretched of the earth, who is forced to live a tortured life, nor a subaltern whose voice cannot acquire speech. The survivor instead is an existence...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of life. © 2020 Talal Asad 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). religious reasons tradition practice abstraction the secular In what follows I try to think about religious tradition through Wittgenstein's...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 488–495.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Mbali Mazibuko Abstract This short essay offers reflective feminist insight into the Fees Must Fall Movement of 2015–16 that was led by students and workers at universities in South Africa. It considers the ways in which Black feminist life is negotiated and embodied in a contemporary student...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 April 2019
... relationship between—and simultaneous deployment of—the “punitive” elements of this interpellation and its new, entrepreneurial dimension. This last component, opposed to the first only nominally, exalts individual potency and delivers an “amicable” appeal to a wholesome and reconciled common life. Taking...
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