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Published: 01 December 2022
figure 7 . Outraged by the state murder of two protesters this morning, rural men and women in South Lebanon use a downed electricity pole to barricade the entrance to their work facility. Dar Al Sayyad .
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
... histories of the modern world. This article thus moves on two fronts in order to meet the stated objectives of expanding the field of critical theory while tracking “untimely traditions” and the horizons they've drawn. It will offer a history of anticolonial practice that was simultaneously theorized within...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 118–124.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible. Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 565–576.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Honaida Ghanim Even as the law grants Jews an exclusive right to self-determination in Israel, it does not demarcate the borders of the state. Instead, the law situates the state in the Land of Israel, that is to say, the historical land of Palestine that extends from the Mediterranean Sea...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 577–587.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Lana Tatour 5. Halbfinger and Kershner, “Israeli Law Declares.” 6. O'Toole, “Deepening Apartheid.” 7. Tatour, “New Law Old News.” 8. Jabareen and Bishara, “The Jewish Nation-State Law,” 46 . 9. The term “liberal settler colonial state” has been coined...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... If violence is inescapable, this is not because recourse to it would be the only possible strategy against state violence, systemic racism, or colonialism—an argument that only those who read Frantz Fanon too hastily would actually make. Fanon asserted that decolonization was always a violent phenomenon...
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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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Published: 01 December 2022
figure 10 . Rural protesters debate whether destruction of private property is a legitimate response to state repression. Dar Al Sayyad .
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in “We Have Entered a Stage of Overproduction”: The Weight of (Un)hospitality and the Performative Self
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Published: 01 April 2021
figure 1 . Mithu Sen, How to be a SUCKcessful Artist . Lecture performance, video still from 1:12. Shown at “States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism,” SFSIA (Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art) 2019, Berlin.
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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 (2018) 1 (1): 108–119.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Massimiliano Tomba Abstract The imperative mandate is a medieval institution that arose in a context in which power was not monopolized by the state, but rather distributed in a plurality of municipalities and assemblies with specific political authority. This system, based on the plurality...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 263–267.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Françoise Vergès Abstract This article draws from Françoise Vergès's book, Le ventre des femmes: Capitalisme, racialisation, féminisme , * which traces the history of the colonization of the wombs of Black women by the French state in the 1960s and 1970s through forced abortions and the forced...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Dario Gentili Abstract This article is focused on the analysis of paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” The article focuses on two sets of fundamental claims: those addressing the function of the police within the legal order of the state and those addressing...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Banu Bargu Abstract This essay analyzes Turkey's contemporary moment in light of the significance of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and the countrywide state of emergency it precipitated. The essay specifically examines two different forces unleashed by July 15: on the one hand, an assertive...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of territorial precedent and corporeal autonomy that stand in opposition to the continuum of Chilean racism and its myriad devastating sociocultural and ecological effects. These hunger strikes wrest the ordering of life, and the processes and temporality of dying, from the state. In this way, the hunger strikes...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
... have internalized. The apocalyptic crises that came to a head in the United States in the summer of 2020 and built to January 2021 can help us make that break. Writing from the “red state” of Tennessee, which was “purple” in living memory, on a patch of university earth that is the ancestral home...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
... universities worked with the managers of the security infrastructure of the state to orchestrate a national police shutdown of the student and worker movement. This essay is an effort to sustain an objection to that coordinated effort, and to work through a proposal for how the new managers...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 445–475.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Nasser Abourahme Abstract What is a revolution that neither overthrows a state order nor institutes a lasting one of its own? What happens if we disassociate revolution—the novel beginning, the break, the upending of order, the social transformation—from the movement of historical necessity...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 506–509.
Published: 01 December 2020
... state of emergency as an intensification of the long and brutal history of oppression by the Indian state impacting the lives and democratic aspirations of the people of Kashmir. Raising their voices against the continuing lockdown and in support of and solidarity with the people of Kashmir, Pinjra Tod...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 125–129.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Rico's status as an unincorporated territory of the United States. Ariadna Michelle Godreau-Aubert, Vanesa Contreras Capó, Anayra Santory Jorge, and Eva Prados Rodríguez show furthermore how debt actualizes a racial and gender order that exceeds colonialism as a juridical-political predicament...
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