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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 330–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Pablo Oyarzún Abstract This article offers a reading of the concluding paragraph of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” It discusses Benjamin's assertion that only a philosophical-historical approach can provide the key to a critique of violence in light of his essay's discussion...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 384–399.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Étienne Balibar Abstract This article discusses violence in its intrinsic relationship to politics. This conjunction of politics and violence is not just a special feature of our historical experience; rather it can never be separated from it, albeit with distinct forms and to different degrees...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 167–169.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and name those who have increased the debt through undemocratic and corrupt processes for decades. To demand accountability from the people responsible for the current crisis. To talk about gender violence is not only to talk about the “Ley 54.” 2 We also need to talk about cuts in TANF...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Mohamad Amer Meziane Work Cited Balibar Étienne . “ From Violence as Anti-Politics to Politics as Anti-Violence .” Critical Times 3 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 384 – 99 . Butler Judith . The Force of Nonviolence . London : Verso Books , 2020 . Fanon Frantz...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 170–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Eva Prados Rodríguez; Nicole Delgado In the case of women, there are multiple factors that link gender relations and public debt. For example, we can identify the number of public funds allocated for programs to eliminate violence against women. Another possible approach would be to look...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Robin Celikates Abstract Violence manifests as a force that dissects: it disjoins, divides, breaks up lives and bodies, communities, the environment. It also constitutes a field of forces that theory, in its critical registers, is trying to dissect, to anatomize, to take apart, to lay open, to open...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 200–223.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Sergio Delgado Moya Abstract This essay makes the case for sensationalism as an archive of violence. It traces the ways in which the Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals draws from the sensationalist tabloid Alarma! in the making of his film Las Poquianchis (1976), a film version of the story of human...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 209–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of violence. After describing how this characterization of moral relations both reproduces and inverts the underlying schema of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals , the article outlines the procedure whereby Benjamin's initial definition of violence as an “intervention” into moral relations is supplemented...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Marc Crépon; Micol Bez Abstract The object of this article is to show how, at the beginning of his essay “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Walter Benjamin uses the questions of the right to strike and law of war to exemplify the way in which the state monopoly has no other goal than to preserve...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 295–305.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky Abstract Walter Benjamin's critique of violence assumes that violence is deeply intertwined with the division of time and space. Niobe serves as an example that allows Benjamin to give an account of the violent conditions of the order of time that is constituted under...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
Published: 01 August 2019
... where Benjamin quotes a text of Spinoza's, albeit between the lines, is in “Toward the Critique of Violence” (1921). Still, in this essay Benjamin is far from enthusiastic about the author of the Ethics . He names Spinoza as a proponent of natural law theory, which Benjamin dismisses in his search...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Dario Gentili Abstract This article is focused on the analysis of paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” The article focuses on two sets of fundamental claims: those addressing the function of the police within the legal order of the state and those addressing...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 320–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Petar Bojanić; Edward Ðjordević Abstract In paragraph 18 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” the terms life , living , and violence , and the relations among them, complicate Walter Benjamin's justification of divine violence—his text's main discovery. This article seeks to reconstruct Benjamin's...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 April 2020
...David Lloyd Abstract This essay addresses Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” to draw out the implications of the paradox he notes, that an exercise of a right, if it calls into question the legitimacy of the legal order, can be perceived by the state as violent, even where it is, strictly...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 306–319.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Michelle Ty Abstract This essay offers a critique of contemporary regimes of migrant repression in light of Walter Benjamin's reflections on borders and their constitutive relation to legal violence. In paragraphs 15–17 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Benjamin evokes the legend of Niobe, who...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 270–284.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Başak Ertür Abstract This article focuses on the discussion of general conscription in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay “Toward the Critique of Violence.” In the essay, Benjamin presents conscription or compulsory military service alongside his discussions of police violence and capital punishment...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of the postapartheid state and university could have—should have—acted otherwise. This proposal is called abolition pedagogy , a refusal of the long-standing relationship between education and violence, and a reading of the pedagogic labor involved in antiviolence work. In the midst of the recent student protests...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2020
... militarization and mobilization of lethal force within universities. Such normalized violence reproduces historical inequities within academia and has material consequences for students and workers. Finally, the authors explore how social movements like Disarm UC disrupt police violence within the university...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Milad Odabaei Abstract Conventional accounts of the 1979 Iranian revolution emphasize the loss of the revolution's “true” spirit in the violence of the Islamic state. In contrast, this essay foregrounds a recurring dream of parricide in the generation of children of revolutionaries to explore...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 202–211.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and those who have left this world, introducing the Afghan corpse as witness to the violence of serial imperial war, and witness to the violence of Afghanistan as erasure. daulatzai@berkeley.edu ghumkhor@unimelb.edu.au © 2023 Anila Daulatzai and Sahar Ghumkhor 2023 This is an open access...
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