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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
... these aesthetic traditions depends on whether Adorno's aesthetics can be decoupled from the antiblack racism in the genealogy of Western aesthetics and whether Adorno's negative dialectics can be reconciled to the transformative force of art, as that force is as central in Black aesthetics as is the negative...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Through this reading, Ambedkar's political philosophy becomes legible not only as a profound challenge to what Lefort has called the “permanence of the theologico-political” but also as a radical way of combining everyday political practice with an emphatic notion of negative identity...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., Negative Exposures . The book opens with Beijing-based photographer Xu Yong's 2014 photobook Negatives ( Dipian 底片), in which sixty-four images of his photography are shown as enlargements of their negatives. The contents of the images are hard to make out at first sight, shown as they are in inverted...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... : Verso , 2005 . Adorno Theodor . Negative Dialectics . Translated by Ashton E. B. . New York : Continuum , 1973 . Adorno Theodor . “ Trying to Understand Endgame ,” translated by Jones Michael T. . New German Critique , no. 26 ( 1982 ): 119 – 50 . Allen Amy...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in nonviolence as what he calls a metaphysical category. What is lost in this shift, however, is the explicitly negative character of nonviolence as a phenomenon lacking ontology and so being. For Gandhi, nonviolence was one of a number of negative ideas, which included noncooperation and nonpossession, all...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... rendering of Marx as an Orientalist. Said is rendered an intellectual beholden to identity-thinking; that is, the negativity of class struggle is precisely the nonidentical that cannot enter into the binary logic of identity-thinking that conditions our understanding of the East and West, reason...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of the behaviors associated with neoliberal culture tied to the ideology of entrepreneurship and self-exploitation. It puts pressure on the supposed virtues of the Chilean model, and it exposes the negative emotional effects that neoliberal culture elicits. It argues that the neoliberal model has provoked various...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 215–227.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in a twofold manner, positive and negative: without it we would die rapidly, but in the course of it, we could inhale or ingest something that puts our survival at risk. Exchange is thus for us a necessity and also a threat. This is why in human societies the encounter with others is often mediated...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 327–357.
Published: 01 December 2020
... In other words, such risk-management technologies were negative and defensive, seeking to avoid disasters. 7 But this classical homo prudens has little to do with the new homo resiliens that has emerged in recent decades. The main reason for this is that the resilient response does not cope...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . 19. Brown, In the Ruins , 11 . 20. Tanner, Christianity , 7 . 21. The above translation of Adorno's words comes from Zuidervaat, “Metaphysics after Auschwitz.” E. B. Ashton's translation renders the passage somewhat less lyrically in Adorno, Negative Dialectics , 204 . 22...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., a leak that disorients the violent events of incarceration and settler colonialism, a cut through the enclosure that creates an opening toward a futurity that the Israeli state is adamant about foreclosing. For Braidotti, reworking the negative charge of violent events means shifting our imaginary...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a transversal alliance of movements, accommodating conflict and friction, they might be able to establish a negative universality, a counter-world within the world. If something at least similar to happiness is currently possible for human beings amid all the sorrow, then it is by becoming a citizen...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., so his critical operation can be described as negative, to be sure. But note that he is negating the categories that negate life, freedom, and the ideals of reciprocity. Thus, one is compelled to ask, is he not negating those categories in order to live? He is calling them into question in order...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., there emerges the early moment of Subaltern Studies . Negatively, that moment is critical of statism itself as an orientation, and more broadly of majoritarianism. Indeed, across significant ideological differences, the critique of majoritarianism can be even said to be what is negatively most shared...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 228–237.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to observable behavior or tangible objects, but can now include anything that “incites citizens’ hatred and negative emotions against the government.” The list of soft resistance denounced by the chief executive, the secretary for security, and the Communist press includes some senseless entries: complaints...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 194–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Alice Attie Work Cited Nancy Jean-Luc . The Restlessness of the Negative , translated by Smith Jason and Miller Steven . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2002 . 1. Nancy, Restlessness , 44 . Figure 4. Class Notes : Kierkegaard Figure...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 165–177.
Published: 01 April 2020
... singular into plural lines, from negative into positive signs, from masculine into feminine forms. In Rosenfeld's words, “by altering a section of daily circulation I intend to call attention to the relationship between communications systems, techniques of reproduction of the social order...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 239–251.
Published: 01 August 2019
... from that law. As Nelson points out, Radbruch's error leads him to neglect a whole other possible conception of law, namely that correct law is neither a means to other ends nor an end that is higher than all other values, but a negative condition that in fact restricts the value of all possible...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of identity thinking itself. The “East” and “West” are identities, however, only insofar as they are traversed by negativity: the West is not One, and neither is the East; they can only relate to each other as opposing identities if we are able to think the negativity (class struggle) that permeates both...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 April 2019
...,” into the name of its political alliance: PRO. It furthermore has never ceased to insist on the importance of keeping “faith that we are on the right track,” while simultaneously discrediting its detractors for their negative and pessimistic mindset, and characterizing them as incapable of embracing the “change...
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