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The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon's Language Puzzle

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Lucie K. Mercier
Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 15–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10235923
Published: 01 April 2023
... that language makes for it. —François Tosquelles “Translatability” may strike us as a surprising point of departure for an investigation of Fanon's philosophy. Fanon only ever wrote in French and has been criticized for his condescending attitude toward Creoles and “patois,” which he deemed incapable...
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Translating Solidarity: An Interview with Nehad Salem

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Hala Halim
Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 131–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8189881
Published: 01 April 2020
...Hala Halim Abstract This interview with veteran Egyptian translator and interpreter Nehad Salem is preceded by an introduction that situates her biography and formation in relation to the key, interconnected international/internationalist forums in which her career unfolded. A dedicated Third...
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The Language(s) of Self-Representation: Toward a Postcolonial Theory of Voice

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Michael Allan
Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10235933
Published: 01 April 2023
...Michael Allan Abstract This essay tracks Karl Marx's famous line “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” as it travels from a translated epigraph in Edward Said's Orientalism to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” What follows from this minor textual detail...
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Introduction: Mahdi Amel Reading Edward Said Reading Marx

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Nadia Bou Ali
Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-9355225
Published: 01 December 2021
...Nadia Bou Ali Abstract This roundtable revolves around the translation of selections from Amel's book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? On Edward Said's Marx in “Orientalism , ” published in Arabic in 1986. The importance of bringing this Arabic text to an English and global...
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Introduction: On Debt, Blame, and Responsibility: Feminist Resistance in the Colony of Puerto Rico

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Rocío Zambrana
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 125–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8855275
Published: 01 April 2021
...Rocío Zambrana Abstract The essays translated in this cluster explore the work of debt, blame, and responsibility in the continuation of and resistance to colonial life in contemporary Puerto Rico. In the colony of Puerto Rico, debt represents the continuation of the colonial condition—Puerto...
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Clausewitz and la pensée 68

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Éric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, Ames Hodges, Katharine Wallerstein
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 49–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-1.1.49
Published: 01 April 2018
... second volume, Wars and Revolution . 2 Fontaine, Guerre civile. 3 Glucksmann, Le Discours, 389 (“Autour d'une pensée de Mao Tse-toung”). 4 Translator's note : The standard translation of Clausewitz's formula is “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” 5...
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The Sovereign, the Survivor, the Last Man

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Marc Nichanian, Philip Gerard
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 227–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10437027
Published: 01 August 2023
... Studiums, die das Dasein in Schrift verwandelt . 2 Let me try to translate: “Le mouvement vers l'arrière est la direction de l’étude, celle qui transforme l'existence en Écriture” (The backward movement is the direction of study, which transforms existence into Writing). One is obliged to write “Writing...
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On Zionism and the Concept of Deferral

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Adam Y. Stern
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 20–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-9536468
Published: 01 April 2022
... of this passage, Derrida emphasizes Portia's analogical thinking: the “theological-political translation” that turns the pardon into a site of incarnational exchange between the “sublime greatness” of God and the human body (or bodies) of the Christian sovereign. 68 Derrida's essential point is that Portia's...
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Homo Discens

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Gil Anidjar
Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 443–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8662312
Published: 01 December 2020
... to refer quite matter-of-factly to the “teachings” of Zoroaster or to those of the Buddha. And rightly so, for much of the (translated) vocabulary of what we persist in calling “religions” is ostensibly pedagogical (though the Greek etymology of that term might, of course, give us pause). Consider...
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Introduction: Nonsense—Critique for the Times

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Jeffrey Sacks
Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10235913
Published: 01 April 2023
... substitution.” 2 To introduce this special issue on “Critique and Translation,” I want to linger with this Fanonian substitution and ask what sort of act it would be and what sense of the social it would give. It is an act that does not promise a “transition” but only its own mere taking place...
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“. . . and will do none”: Gewalt in the Measure of a Parenthesis

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Anne-Lise François
Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 285–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7708355
Published: 01 August 2019
..., as if private persons had unmediated access to inwardly guaranteed truths. 3 A related mistake would be to hear Benjamin as championing civilization as the path toward nonviolence, as one might have been tempted to do by Jephcott's translation of the sentence “Gewaltlose Einigung findet sich überall, wo...
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“That Great Mother of Danger”

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Gil Anidjar
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 257–270.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10437047
Published: 01 August 2023
... (or entropy), leaves little room to think destruction, a concept mostly absent from the vocabulary of modern physics ( History of Thermodynamics , 22). 24. Asad, “Concept of Cultural Translation.” 25. Jankélevitch, La mort . 26. Farman, On Not Dying . 27. Freud, Totem...
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Thinking at the Extremes

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Robyn Marasco
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 110–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8855259
Published: 01 April 2021
... Theodor W. Hegel: Three Studies . Translated by Nicholsen Shierry Weber . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 1993 . Adorno Theodor W. Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life . Translated by Jephcott E. F. N. . London : Verso Books , 2005 . Althusser Louis...
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The Politics of Pure Means: On Paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”

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Dario Gentili
Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 261–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7708339
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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The Curious Case of Baruch Spinoza in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”

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Massimo Palma
Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7708315
Published: 01 August 2019
... .” In Gesammelte Schriften , vol. 2 , bk. 1, 16 – 35 . Benjamin Walter . “ Erfahrung .” In Gesammelte Schriften , vol. 2 , bk. 1, 54 – 56 . Translated as “Experience” in Selected Writings , 1 : 3 – 5 . Benjamin Walter . Gesammelte Briefe , edited by Gödde Christoph and Lonitz...
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For Mourid Barghouti (1944–2021): A Portfolio

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Hareth Yousef, Ahmad Diab
Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 495–500.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-9799782
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Figure 5. Kids running in front of the façade of Barghouti's likely family home. Photo by Hareth Yousef, 2021. Figure 5. Kids running in front of the façade of Barghouti's likely family home. Photo by Hareth Yousef, 2021. 1. Translated from the Arabic by Ahmad Diab and Alexander Key...
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Counter-Critical Theory: An Intervention in Contemporary Critical Thought and Practice

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Bernard E. Harcourt
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-1.1.5
Published: 01 April 2018
.... The resistance to the Muslim Ban followed precisely a liberal civil and political rights model: civil rights lawyers and even attorney generals went to court and sued President Trump, while others offered their expertise as area experts or translators. In effect, the critical resistance predominantly used...
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The Non-modern Crisis of the Modern University

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Willy Thayer, Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby, Ramsey McGlazer
Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7615011
Published: 01 April 2019
... university. If we were to create a map of today's academic practices, marking identities and hierarchies with little flags, we would see that the lines of influence, the colonizations, grafts, and transplants, the compromises and translations have intersected so often that we would find flags of all...
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The Return of Nonviolence

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Faisal Devji
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8855243
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the lexicon of Euro-American politics that have been redefined there by way of translation from languages and traditions outside Europe. For before its elevation by nonviolence into the primary target of moral and political action, violence had been a secondary category, the supplement of power, sovereignty...
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The Deep River of Feminism: From Ni Una Menos to Non Una di Meno

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Lidia Salvatori
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 241–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-9536591
Published: 01 April 2022
... as occasional translator and interpreter; and a variety of interviews and informal chats. From the start, the book presents a challenge: how to conceptualize and document an ever-transforming movement even more varied than the sum of the voices it contains? López highlights that her writing emerged from...
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