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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in order to allow for a more open-ended and permanent re-examination of how power circulates and recirculates throughout society. Counter-critical theory is a pure theory of illusions and calls for a strategic, ecumenical practice of political disobedience, accompanied by an unrelenting and resolute...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Talal Asad Abstract This essay is an attempt at thinking through Wittgenstein's philosophy in order to clarify some aspects of what people call “religion.” Central to it is an exploration of the polarity between belief and practice and an attempt to reframe that polarity in terms of the mutually...
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Published: 01 December 2020
FIGURE 1. School of Improper Education modular logo, designed by Tuhantu Design Collective (Yogyakarta). Tuhantu responded to our call for a logo design that resists a fixed formation of shapes. The logo configuration signifies a condition that is embracing “trial and always error” practices.
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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
...Wilson Chacko Jacob Abstract History has been difficult to dislodge from its colonial trajectory in spite of at least a half-century of post-Orientalist critique. Accordingly, a critical theory that is genuinely global in its lineaments is difficult to establish as practice without more decolonial...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 241–262.
Published: 01 April 2018
... process that was both deepened and accelerated by the use of the strike as a feminist practice. The March 8 strike was a political and social strike. It made a difference because it allowed feminism to go beyond the borders of the “woman question,” to become both a mass political practice and a means...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Lucila Szwarc; Tessa Wood Abstract This essay argues that abortion, as a practice and a political cause, challenges traditional and hegemonic health frameworks and contributes to the development of a feminist approach to health. The essay focuses on experiences and activism for legal abortion...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 319–325.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Sisters Kitchen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in April 2023. Natalia Brizuela, Samera Esmeir, Alyosha Goldstein, and Rebecca Schreiber brought together scholars, activists, poets, and artists whose work critically engages the modern border regime as a geopolitical technology indispensable to practices...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 423–447.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the last century or so, both as discourse and clinical practice, the field of psy has seemed to reflect the demands of a hegemonic status quo by engaging in a particular form of individualized social reproduction. In this sense, “therapeutic cultures” would be the antithesis of solidarity, proposing...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... After apartheid, the South answers to a desire that reaches beyond race as symptom toward a practice of post-apartheid freedom. Race, the article suggests, is perhaps better apprehended as supplement where the inventiveness of the modern university has hitherto resided. Apartheid in this reckoning...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 108–119.
Published: 01 April 2018
... as a response to the crisis of the representative democracy. This essay locates the insurgent legacy of the imperative mandate in the Paris Commune, in the German councils, and in the Zapatistas’ practice of mandar obedeciendo (rule by obeying), in order to consider possible democratic alternatives...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 49–59.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., and a practice of social warfare.” 15 The irreducibility of social warfare to the class struggle that pacifies it conditions the analysis of political power as war. According to Foucaldian doxa , the 1977-1978 seminar, Security, Territory, Population , marked a major shift in the philosopher's thought...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 401–402.
Published: 01 December 2020
... between belief and practice as a starting point, scholars should attend to the variety of ways language comes to be used in contexts of embodied learning, contexts wherein the abilities and aptitudes germane to religious life are developed and honed. Turning his focus to what Wittgenstein called...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 416–434.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Marianne Hirsch Abstract Responding to current conditions of statelessness by way of Hannah Arendt's mid- twentieth century reflections, this article proposes the aesthetic encounter as a practice of alternative, counter-national community and belonging. Artistic works exploring the vulnerabilities...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 224–248.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of working towards more just futures. For Rancière, part of this political capacity lies in the equality between the production and the reception of art and in the “promise of a life reconfigured” that the distribution and redistribution of the sensible in aesthetic practice offer by creating experiences...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to postcolonial politics that aims to innovate new concepts and reanimate inherited ones. From this perspective, decolonizing political theory is less a recurring critique of Eurocentrism than an effort to shift the terrain of theorizing and thereby reinvigorate the practice of political theory...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 202–216.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the future of the university; a set of proposals for conceptual tools that might be of use; and an exploration of potential sites for experimentation with the form and practice of the university that might ensue if we use them. The terrain of contemporary debates over the future of the university...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 538–569.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., reveals the theory and practice of the general strike to have always been a weapon of Black radicalism and one especially shaped by enslaved women. With this framework established through the recovery of Wedderburn's importance, the essay offers theoretical reflections on some of the key issues...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
... senses that “critical” carries: pertaining to a crisis, opening up a practice of questioning, and linking what happens in the university to the broader struggle for democracy. I also sought to demonstrate that shutting down gender studies and gender discourse is one way for authoritarian powers...
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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. 82. Abensour...
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