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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the “superiority of the subjugated” with Hegel and explains its social-theoretical relevance by turning to Marx and Engels. This tradition of thought offers two explanations for the superiority of subjugated sociality, one that relies on a philosophy of history (the servant's way of existence anticipates a coming...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as the object of critique and analysis. Through a reading of Gandhi and Fanon, the authors argue that anticolonialism, while engaged in a critique of the West, also had a positive or reconstructive theoretical agenda, one that has been taken up in creative ways in postcolonial political thought. Taking cues...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of ordering things known as “the economy” has become the dominant playing field and decisive electoral issue of modern politics. Within this broad contemporary context, Michel Foucault made a strange theoretical intervention that, to this day, continues to baffle readers. During a lecture, he argued that Adam...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
... violence as the intentional infliction of bodily harm, and beyond the widespread assumption that violence is the absolute other of politics, that politics and violence are incompatible. The commentaries in this special section further explore the theoretical space opened up by Balibar's work in light...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 December 2021
... readership is twofold: it sheds light on the work of an influential and widely read Arabic critical social theorist and philosopher; and the translation of this critical theoretical work from “the margin” opens up central epistemological and conceptual problems in Marxist theory and its relation...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... not to lose its force and not to become a psychologizing and individualizing interpretative term, ressentiment needs to be understood as a mode of regression and therefore should be embedded in a theoretical framework for understanding crisis that allows us to address the social structures that enable...
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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 (3): 645–662.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Lena Meari; Samera Esmeir; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This interview with Lena Meari considers the history and present of Palestinian hunger strikes. Meari reflects on the political and theoretical dimensions of hunger strikes by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli colonial prisons...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This special section gathers activist texts and theoretical reflections on the International Women's Strike of March 8, 2017. Contributors from Turkey, Argentina, Poland, and Italy consider the strike's implications and effects, emphasizing the ways in which it both indexes...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
Published: 01 August 2019
... for a criterion with which to judge Gewalt . This article seeks to investigate Benjamin's apparent hostility to Spinoza and to reexamine the relationship between the two, from both a theoretical and a political perspective. The circle itself is a key concept in the essay, because it is the shape of eternal...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 493–517.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Jane Taylor Abstract In this text, the script of a performance/lecture, which combines live puppetry, digital film, and a lecture, is paired with a prefatory essay that seeks to address the theoretical questions raised by the play about embodiment, mind, AI, and the staging of consciousness...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 501–508.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., uncharacteristically entertaining Sartre's accusation that structuralism was the latest form of imperialist bourgeois ideology. 2 In this commentary, I will locate this text within Amel's project in general and in his theoretical treatment of the production of knowledge and its material effects in particular...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 481–500.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to pages 170 to 173 out of the 366-page Arabic edition. 2 We read the following in Said's text: “What the early Orientalist achieved, and what the non-Orientalist in the West exploited, was a reduced model of the Orient suitable for the prevailing, dominant culture and its theoretical (and hard...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 496–501.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in the leftist revolutionary imagination, an image analogous to (and perhaps even rivaling) the proletariat as a revolutionary class. This image brought together several elements that gave it its power: the fetish of uniting theoretical research and political action, culminating in the ability for political...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 209–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
... reflecting on the scope and consequences of certain “observations,” which, as a result of this remark, function as the “data” for the ensuing argument. The data here are doubtless of a theoretical character, in contrast to the “temporal data” (§19) to which Benjamin refers in the closing paragraph...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with the subtlety of the author's own approach, what follows is not a polemic, either with López, or the more or less organic intellectuals of Ni Una Menos or the Argentinean women's strikes. Rather, it is an attempt to decipher the theoretical frameworks and political stakes of López's essay. My remarks are aimed...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... diasporas. Both the Latin American and the African movements referred to here—such as the African Decolonial Research Network (ADERN) or work of scholars associated with the theoretical program called Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality (MCD) in Latin America—shared a concern with what this article...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 517–529.
Published: 01 December 2021
... be ascribed under any circumstances to the usurpation of Marx's mind by conventional Orientalistic verbiage. Marx's explanation (regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with it) testifies to his theoretical consistency in general, and to his keen realism in analysing specific historical situations...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to decolonize political theory, arguing for a shift in focus from Western political thought to what they call the “positive or reconstructive theoretical agenda” in Gandhi's and Fanon's anticolonial thought. The anticolonial impulse, in this sense, involves political reformulation that exceeds the critique...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
... or cut with ideology. 4 Amel attempted to fuse this epistemological account of rupture with dialectics: this is perhaps his central theoretical preoccupation. He argued that the overcoming of capitalist structures requires a corrective to structuralism through an account of contradiction, which...
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