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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 14–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Here women's solidarity moves us beyond the heroic paradigm of exceptionality and offers an egalitarian means of resisting the state of exception's deadly norms of femininity through weak resistance and mutual aid. 20 Schmitt argued for the need for sacrifice among the absolute sovereign's...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 66–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the United States. This essay explores some of the singular forms of that responsibilization by concentrating on three terms: revocability , exception , and qualification . These, too, can be understood as hinges of power in proximity with some of the plural combinations of biopolitical, disciplinary...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 110–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
... unexpectedly and unpredictably, from within a state of apparent normality.” It is not a question of the state of exception (Schmitt) but of the tendencies present in each and every case. It is not a question of finding the accurate measure of suffering or magnitude of destruction, discovering a principle...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 270–284.
Published: 01 August 2019
... to strike granted to organized labor as a legal subject, are presented in the “Critique” as legally sanctioned exceptions to the state's monopoly over legal violence. Importantly, we may notice that a reformulation has taken place in the course of Benjamin's discussion of these exceptions: the state's...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 3–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... idea of the “competent parent.” Revocability, exception, and disqualification, Deutscher shows, are all names for hegemonic legal positions that coexist in the present. According to the logic of “states of exception,” in a dynamic that is key to the ongoing encounter between fascism...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 481–500.
Published: 01 December 2021
...: Occasionally one comes across exceptions, or if not exceptions then interesting complications, to this unequal partnership between East and West. Karl Marx identified the notion of an Asiatic economic system in his 1853 analyses of British rule in India, and then put beside that immediately the human...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 588–594.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Rahul Rao [email protected] © 2021 Rahul Rao 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). In 2017, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Tel Aviv on a state visit, his Israeli counterpart...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in Palestine: The Place and No-Place of Radical Thought” in Ramallah, December 2015, during a moment when the permanent state of exception that is the norm for Palestinians living under occupation was in full evidence. 1 This was a conference that will, I hope, become a model for many such collaborative...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 321–325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... What I Like , 96, 102 . 8. Sithole, Black Register , 222 . 9. Agamben, States of Exception . 10. Sithole, Black Register , 225 . Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . States of Exception . Translated by Attell Kevin . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 August 2019
... to justify the creation of the legal order of the state). Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . Means without End: Notes on Politics , translated by Casarino Cesare and Binetti Vincenzo . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2000 . Agamben Giorgio . State of Exception...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 80–98.
Published: 01 April 2018
... from the colonial to the postcolonial period, are strengthened rather than overturned by “reasons of democracy.” After 9/11 and the expanding states of exception that anti-terror laws carve out within standard legal norms, we know how the ostensible aim of defending democracy and liberal rights against...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 384–399.
Published: 01 December 2020
... distinct. Again, there is no question of distributing each of these into neatly separated boxes, using typologies so as to ensure that “extreme violence” remains a “state of exception” from which we are protected by “normal” politics. On the contrary, my aim is to understand what takes place when violence...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 237–259.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in the territory of [the] nation-state, creating zones of exception with different laws and no democratic oversight.” 67 What he refers to as “zones of exception” could also be described as spheres of immunity , corresponding to the etymologies of immunity in both Latin ( immunitas ) and Mongolian ( darkhlaa...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2022
... essay on Jonah belongs to the “esoteric dossier” of Benjamin's debate with Schmitt on the state of exception. 79 The dispute focuses again on the “complex relation,” or “economy,” between the norm of law and its force of application. 80 In his chapters on political theology, Schmitt claims...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the university enters directly and permanently into a state of exception . When its governance, its regulations, its autonomy, its normal temporality—that is, the time during which the exception is still measured against the stability of the norm—are confiscated, interrupted by the operations of business...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 131–147.
Published: 01 April 2020
... concerning the future of a state. I was always in the Security Council. Never—this was an exception. HH: You must have a metaphor for translation. What do you compare it to? NS: No, it's incomparable, because it's a very special job, interpreting. HH: And translation per se? NS...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
... , 2014 . Açiksöz Salih Can . “ He is a Lynched Soldier Now: Coup, Militarism, and Masculinity in Turkey .” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 13 , no. 1 ( March 2017 ): 178 - 80 . Agamben Giorgio . State of Exception . Translated by Attell Kevin . Chicago and London...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2019
... rules India. How do universities figure in this project? An ideologue of contemporary Hindutva wrote recently: “Those who considered the RSS the enemy of ‘secularism and nationalism’ no longer hold state power. However, they still hold the dominant position in academia.” 2 This is the simple...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 149–157.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., and co-mayors. In this context, the essay demonstrates, women are left with no choice but to strengthen their alliances and to radicalize their movements against the state's authoritarian regime. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 2018...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2022
... exceptions. This is in part because the wider political and cultural conditions that might lead to hoped-for trials are deeply entrenched in a wider neocolonial geopolitical context that allows, for example, the US State Department to publicly urge restraint by the Egyptian military against protesters while...
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