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Restructuring the Specialized University
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
... interdisciplinary initiatives in academia and highlighting the challenges often presented by specialization when amplified in the corporate sphere, this essay imagines a future university of 2050 in which interdisciplinarity has become structurally integral and transformative. The essay closes by proposing concrete...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 109–120.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... As they grapple with the questions of university abolition, the authors of this article examine the structural violences of universities at large, while being attentive to the particularities of the UCSC wildcat strike. The authors draw on the wildcat imaginaries that emerged, in both inchoate and more developed...
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What Kind of Freedom Is Academic Freedom?
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., existing university structures—with a mission dedicated to producing critical knowledge for the public good, conceived of as an ethical commitment to securing justice apart from the juridical limits of the state. Here is the self-definition offered by the Solidarity academics: Who Are We? We...
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From 1990 to 2020
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 87–96.
Published: 01 April 2022
... continue to have global implications. I'm going to list the core negative elements of the incumbent university structure of the United States. A preliminary note: many commentators would likely explore one or the other of two important achievements. The first is the technological revolution associated...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
...” ( Dreyfus and Rabinow, Michel Foucault ). Foucault did think that structuralism was the most advanced of the human sciences. However, he was not interested in a universal theory of discourse or power; his interest was in histories of discourses and practices. In this sense, structuralism itself deserved...
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Modes of Regression: The Case of Ressentiment
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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 (2024) 7 (3): 448–477.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Hill . Black Feminist Thought . 2nd ed. New York : Routledge , 2009 . DuFord Nathan Rochelle . Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2022 . Einspahr Jennifer . “ Structural Domination and Structural Freedom: A Feminist...
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Bleeding Forms: Beyond the Intifada
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 304–317.
Published: 01 August 2024
... structure. It argues that resistance overflows the condition it seeks to dismantle and bring down in the world. The essay explores the difference between Bataille's account of the operation of the formless and Frantz Fanon's understanding of the tabula rasa, highlighting how resistance can break down...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to universalism). The wish for it to be otherwise is paradoxically a wish to be able to deny the need to learn. Further, as Robin Celikates argues, social learning of the kind to which critical theorists wish to apply the term “progress” occurs in the context of structures of domination and oppression. 45...
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A Manifesto in Four Themes
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 198–211.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of an inevitably violent expropriation. Dismantling this structure very gradually will thus be the condition of possibility for any and every process capable of reorienting history and putting an end to the patriarchal prehistory of humanity . My claim for the precedence and universality of patriarchy...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 150–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... freedom or democratic rights—the substantive agendas of liberal education—be the political calling of the university? This is the question that structures the object(s) of inquiry pursued in the sections below. The following reflections were provoked by a workshop's call to draft manifestos...
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#DisarmUC: Disrupting the Arms Race
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and to bear witness. Beyond verbal commitment to the “Principles of Community,” what was the university going to do to ensure that it wasn't feeding the anti-Black and militarized machine that is policing in the United States? Drawing on experiences in our communities, and with an eye toward structural...
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The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... society has made the principle of the proletariat” when it demands the negation of private property, it also simply universalizes its own condition when it calls for the abolition of the family. Marx and Engels's argument concerning the nation-state and nationalism has a very similar structure...
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The Location of Anticolonialism; or, Al-Afghānī, Qāsim Amīn, and Sayyid Quṭb at the Peripheries
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 337–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
... movement toward canonizing a few select thinkers and histories risks reifying the differential inclusion and erasures of an archive. The terms on which historical works and thinkers attain disciplinary sanction, the specific roles they are made to perform, and the historiographic discourses that structure...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
... up for critique and transformation, especially when violence takes hidden, invisibilized, or structural forms. As Étienne Balibar's work exemplifies, for theory to do this, it not only needs to take account of the resistance and struggles of its age; it also needs to move beyond clichés about...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 479–485.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of security points to the way the university reproduces Brahmanical and patriarchal structures to limit women's mobility. In this dossier, their contribution speaks out against the Indian state's policies in Kashmir, which again, with a vocabulary of “safety” and “protection,” have turned Kashmir into an open...
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Mahdi Amel on Edward Said: Mechanisms of Expansion in the Reproduction of Knowledge and Capital
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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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Collective Memory at Canada's Prison for Women
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 260–279.
Published: 01 August 2024
... as a historically sedimented context for meaning and mattering. The social dimension of collective memory is structured around an antagonism between hegemonic public memory and insurgent countermemory. The ethical dimension issues a command to anyone to listen and respond to the countermemory of the oppressed...
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Mahdi Amel and the Nonidentical
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... between specific thinkers and for thereby creating a homogenizing effect, such that everything that the intellectual thinks is subsumed within the thought structure of the nation. 5. Yet another form of identity-thinking appears in Said's thought, which Amel terms “logical positivism.” Said's thought...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 300–311.
Published: 01 August 2020
... but also their complicity with certain segments of the non-Armenian population. The interview took place in her office at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she teaches Ottoman and Turkish history. Deniz Yonucu: Talin, drawing on archival documents, reports from eyewitnesses, and oral...
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