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Published: 01 April 2023
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 3–4.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in challenges to Western power and its ideological workings. 1 But her work was also animated by a fundamentally anthropological ethic. Raising questions about the ethnocentric sources of even self-declared post- or anti-colonial political thought and emancipatory projects, this ethic has implications...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is a broader exploration of how “other” languages take place in postcolonial theory—not only Said and Spivak's German, but Abdelfattah Kilito's Italian and Frantz Fanon's Arabic. What is the place of translation in self-representation? How do instances of textual citation complicate the self of self...
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“We Have Entered a Stage of Overproduction”: The Weight of (Un)hospitality and the Performative Self
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 174–185.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of virtual space, surveillance technologies, e-commerce, and an overburdened economy of looking. The very premise of my online presence, for instance, is a splitting of the self. The personas @mithusen26 and @mithusenseriouslyofficial26 are themselves the product of a performative split that I enact...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 114–142.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and theorization becomes a temporal practice of sociality, an inessential, inidentical sharing in language and form. In Hatoum's art, a sociality of collective form displaces the critical terms of self-possession, self-orientation, and philosophical self-reflection, where property is unmoored as a logic of reading...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... toward the implementation of a municipal electoral system ( autarquia ) and argue that it poses an Afro-utopian challenge: the issue of autarky, or the recognition of self-organization and self-sufficiency vis-à-vis postcolonial autocratic rule. At the same time, however, autocracy is often invoked...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 158–177.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in concrete conflicts. In this way, feminist struggles are producing new images of counter-power, of a popular sovereignty that challenges faith in the state, of insurgencies that have renewed the dynamics of decision and autonomy, and of self-defense and collective force. Licensed under a Creative Commons...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 353–369.
Published: 01 December 2019
... discrimination, rendering it less visible, less discernible, and so more difficult to address. He briefly formulates a notion of crypto-value embedded within algorithmic self-conception and elaborates an algorithmic ontology. The latter is distinguished from the contemporary understanding of the post-human...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., colleges, and universities) because their critical activity has been considered vital to the public good and because it is a self-regulated activity committed to processes of relentless questioning that require disciplined forms of reading and reasoning. Neoliberal practices have undermined the basis...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that the principle of economic competition encourages an efficient self-organizing effect at all times, regardless of context, one is also immediately in a position to appreciate why the art of government should always maintain its political primacy over the spontaneous order of the market. Works Cited...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... American decolonial theory self-consciously rejects thinking about colonialism as historically specific in favor of the more abstract concept of coloniality. When Latin American decolonial theory travels to Africa, its emphasis on colonial assimilation obscures a significant experience of colonialism...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
... expressed a deep rejection of the existing economic model, emphasizing its cultural concomitants and questioning the practices of self-exploitation imposed by neoliberal work culture. The first part of the essay develops a critical picture of the figure of the entrepreneur, an embodiment of meritocratic...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 66–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to “exemption” and “self-exemption” in the reproductive governance of abortion. [email protected] © 2024 Penelope Deutscher 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). abortion Dobbs power exception border...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
... are actually rooted in the iron laws of ancient hierarchies intrinsically opposed to the self-historicizing and well-informed democratic aspirations of student activism. © 2020 Gaurav J. Pathania 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 33–67.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... This analogy is not accidental. Propertized oppression supplements the promise of self-ownership that liberalism rests upon; and it compensates parts of the population for the material dispossession on which capitalism thrives. At the present historical conjuncture of formal legal equality and neoliberal...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 434–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
...María Moreno; Paco Brito Núñez Abstract María Moreno begins by examining the limits of our common legal and psychological understandings of consent. She examines how the self who gives consent fluctuates in a way occluded by the liberal notion of the contract and proceeds to consider consent...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 321–325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the vulnerability of the black subject to the state's might and authority, but indeed the “perpetual erasure” that accompanies being a black subject in a racist environment. Ultimately, the intricate analysis he offers enlarges the space to think about ideas around sovereignty: the sovereignty of the (black) self...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the video performance presented in Mroué's Three Posters (performed in 2002 and 2004), and this tension places in question the privilege of a temporally coherent, self-articulated historical or linguistic subject—the subject of critique in Muruwwa. Because there is no longer a coherent subject, art...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 99–107.
Published: 01 April 2018
... competitive interests over others in the name of (that is to say, in the illusory guise of) open competition. 2 It's interesting to consider the trajectory from the notion of “self-regulation” (of both market and government), which is a classic liberal motif, to “deregulation” (of both market...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 270–284.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of whether the means themselves are justified, that is, legal. Benjamin then moves away from this provisional alliance with positive law theory by pointing out the ways in which this approach closes in on itself, “is completely grounded in itself” (§4) and is therefore merely self-referential. We may read...
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