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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Amy Allen Abstract Although Rosa Luxemburg is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance, much of the current discussion of her work fails to contend with her commitment to a rather orthodox reading of the Marxist theory of history. This article argues that all of the features that make Luxemburg's work...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Wilson Chacko Jacob Abstract History has been difficult to dislodge from its colonial trajectory in spite of at least a half-century of post-Orientalist critique. Accordingly, a critical theory that is genuinely global in its lineaments is difficult to establish as practice without more decolonial...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and are translated in lively and productive ways. As Edward Said points out, theory travels; 5 the challenge is to hold on to the specificity of its initial interventions, defined by geography and history, while we simultaneously put it to work in other places, at other times, for different uses. This requires...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Vilashini Cooppan Abstract This article considers how time, space, and history are mobilized across a contemporary range of debates in postcolonial studies, world literature theory, and memory studies. The time-maps surveyed all revolve around Eurochronology and its contestations, and range from...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... never explicitly acknowledged colonial histories. What is needed, instead, this article suggests, is consideration of the very implications of the “colonial modern”—that is, an acknowledgement of the colonial constitution of modernity—for Frankfurt School critical theory's idea of historical progress...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Susana Draper; Daffne Valdés Vargas; Paula Cometa Stange; Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem; Marlena Gittleman Abstract In this interview, Colectivo LASTESIS reflects on the history of the collective and their understanding of feminist performance as a way of expanding different feminist theories...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval . New York : Norton , 2019 . Hartsock Nancy . “ The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism .” In The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader , edited by Harding Sandra , 35 – 54...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to a critique of historicism, then to a disavowal of history, on to postcolonial criticism, and ultimately to a cosmopolitical stance. It suggests that Guha's most important contribution to global critical theory is not his historiographical achievements but his unique phenomenology of time. Mobilizing both...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 517–539.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... The article develops a hermeneutics of benthic becoming at intersections in literary studies, critical theory, cultural geography, and recent subsea turns in the oceanic (and more broadly environmental) humanities. Wrecky concretion, I argue, configures the thickening presences of empire's remains...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
... history to the comprehension of Jews as ‘animals, monkeys for example’” ( Sacks, “The Visual Poetry of the Work,” 122 ). 73. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory , 335 . 74. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory , 177 . 75. In Georg Bertram's reading of this issue in Adorno, even this potentiality...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 280–303.
Published: 01 August 2024
... accounts of neoliberalism, both in academic and more public-facing literature. Across diverse disciplines, from the more established domains of critical literature on neoliberalism in political economy, political and critical theory, and history, to case studies in sociology, education, and geography...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . “ The Origins of Totalitarianism : Not History, but Politics .” Social Research 69 , no. 2 ( 2002 ): 381 – 401 . Brown Wendy . “ American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-democratization .” Political Theory 34 , no. 6 ( 2006 ): 690 – 714 . Brown Wendy . “ Neo...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... has become a critical watchword across the humanities and social sciences. It challenges disciplines to attend to their implication in histories of imperial domination and racial hierarchy and to reckon with the continuing ideological imprint of this past. Political theory has joined this effort...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... positioning of Said as espousing an idealist reading of history and himself as giving the truly materialist reading, the former bound by will and consciousness and the latter free from these ideological implications. 16 Yet Amel's embrace of a “scientific” understanding of Marx's theory of revolution...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in the question of whether critique can hold out a transformative promise without succumbing to the predicaments of universalization and totalization would be to evoke a historical philosophical scene, one that is distinctive to the history of Frankfurt School critical theory, even while it also exceeds...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of nations, the equality of races, and so on—are now questionable on multiple counts. It is difficult to resurrect an anticolonialism grounded in these and other elements central to the persistence of imperialism itself. We now have the benefit of more than three decades of postcolonial theory, which has...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Bernard E. Harcourt Abstract Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht's short-lived project for a critical theory journal, Krise und Kritik , foundered in 1931 on the shoals of positivism. Since then, a series of anti-foundational challenges to traditional critical theory has fragmented the landscape...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., she argues, these theorists tacitly advance a subject of Theory that is normatively imperialist. Adorno could have foreseen this, given that his major critique of Hegel and Marx was that “they failed to acknowledge that the antagonism that they saw as the fundamental driving force for history...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 48–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , 2011 . Bockman Johanna . “ The Long Road to 1989: Neoclassical Economics, Alternative Socialisms, and the Advent of Neoliberalism .” Radical History Review , no. 112 ( 2012 ): 9 – 42 . Braidotti Rosi . “ Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology .” Theory, Culture...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 347–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Lecture” by Jane Taylor returns us to the questions of technology, race, embodiment, and thresholds of the human with which the issue opens. At once an essay, a lecture, and a puppetry performance, “PAN” stages an improbable crossroads in intellectual history between early primate research, race theory...
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