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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... In order to make this case, I turn to the thought of Hannah Arendt to develop a kairology —a temporality—of courage. Usually meaning “the right time or moment,” kairos has aesthetic, ethical, and political significance in a variety of Greek and Christian texts. 5 In its original Greek formulation...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Marc Crépon; Micol Bez Abstract The object of this article is to show how, at the beginning of his essay “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Walter Benjamin uses the questions of the right to strike and law of war to exemplify the way in which the state monopoly has no other goal than to preserve...
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Published: 01 April 2018
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 April 2020
...David Lloyd Abstract This essay addresses Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” to draw out the implications of the paradox he notes, that an exercise of a right, if it calls into question the legitimacy of the legal order, can be perceived by the state as violent, even where it is, strictly...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 66–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
... between rights-bearing and the differential distribution of expectations (for some) that rights be accompanied by particular kinds of good conduct from which others are exempt. Asking how and why abortion has served as a device for setting aside a broad range of rights, the article gives special attention...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 263–267.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the history of the racialization of women's wombs in state politics. In making the liberalization of contraception and abortion their primary aim, she argues, French feminists inevitably ended up defending the rights of white women at the expense of women of color, in a shift from women's liberation...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Joan W. Scott Abstract This essay argues for a definition of academic freedom that does not confuse it with what is considered to be a human right—the individual right to free speech. This is a freedom granted in principle by the state to scholars (usually within educational institutions: schools...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 97–108.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Pedro Fiori Arantes Abstract Brazil has around half of Latin America's twenty-five best-ranked universities, and all of them are public. Most Brazilian public universities are also socially embedded, building knowledge in dialogue with communities, and are involved in defending human rights, social...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 514–518.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Tour.” Yiannopoulos was slated to speak at thirteen college campuses in support of an alt-right platform founded upon the weaponization of “free speech,” xenophobia, and transphobia. In addition to providing materials for protest, the authors of the “Anti-Milo Toolkit” take critical aim...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 150–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Debaditya Bhattacharya Abstract While publicly funded institutions in India have provoked the punitive ire of the ruling Hindu right and systematically invited acts of state terror, a new education policy drafted by the same ruling party advocates a wholesale return to a “liberal arts” curriculum...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
... freedom, critical thought, and its important relation to democratic practices and ideals. It further suggests that academic freedom might be considered an international human right without making any claims about what the human is or can be. Finally, a case is made for the humanities in the field...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 106–132.
Published: 01 April 2019
... case for mourning as a political right, the article first analyzes Hannah Arendt's argument according to which only forgiveness can change a violent course of action, but in order for forgiveness to be offered, the crime to be pardoned must be precisely named. The article then shows how Judith Butler's...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 198–211.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Rita Laura Segato; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract Throughout the Americas, an emphasis on the ideal of the family, defined as the subject of rights to be defended at all costs, has galvanized efforts to demonize and punish what is called “the ideology of gender.” The spokesmen of the historical project...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Wendy Brown Abstract What peculiar form of freedom is cultivated and promised in right-wing political formations today? How does “illiberal democracy” sew together libertarianism and authoritarianism? How is the radical disinhibition and aggressiveness contained in these formations reconciled...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 370–395.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of technological change on the mediation of political solidarity is then examined through two principal examples: the elaboration of generic racial identity and the weaponization of culture and information by the alt-right and its fellow travelers. © 2019 Paul Gilroy 2019 This is an open access article...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 327–357.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and a seeming depoliticization of precarious forms of life—which must learn not to resist but to adapt to precarity. And, secondly, this essay concludes that, in the context of resilience, the sovereign's old right to kill is no longer invoked in the name of epistemic uncertainty (fear of the unpredictability...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 87–96.
Published: 01 April 2022
...–Cold War “peace dividend” was replaced by continuous local and regional wars. In the past thirty years, the United States in particular became post–middle class, post–civil rights, and postdemocratic. Future universities will need to confront all three legacies if they are to transform themselves...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 478–501.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and participatory fieldwork with the New Sanctuary Movement in the United States, the author looks at specific coalitions within migrants’ rights social movements to argue against traditional or otherwise familiar conceptions of the normative foundations of solidarity, such as a common social membership, a shared...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Adam Y. Stern Abstract This article offers a set of conceptual reflections on the politics of deferral . Beginning with an examination of this idea in analyses of colonialism, human rights, and liberalism, the article turns to Gershom Scholem's well-known opposition between Jewish messianism (“life...
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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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