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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...
View articletitled, Law, <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>, History: A Brief Reading of the Last Paragraph of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>”
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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...
View articletitled, From <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span> as Anti-Politics to Politics as Anti-<span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>
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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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The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
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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...
View articletitled, Niobe and Korah, Different Orders of Time: A Commentary on Paragraphs 14–17 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>”
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The Curious Case of Baruch Spinoza in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
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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...
View articletitled, The Curious Case of Baruch Spinoza in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>”
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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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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...
View articletitled, “Leben und Gewalt” or “Gewalt und Leben”: A Commentary on Paragraph 18 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>”
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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 (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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Debt and Structural Gender Violence
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 167–169.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the population is comprised of female-headed households below the poverty level. All of these elements demonstrate that when we speak of machista violence we are not only referring to violence against women by their partners, be it psychological, verbal, or physical. Such violence is also the result...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Mohamad Amer Meziane © 2021 Mohamad Amer Meziane 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). How can we think about the violence of politics without first reminding ourselves that we are and will remain surrounded...
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Gender Violence and Debt Auditing
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 170–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Eva Prados Rodríguez; Nicole Delgado © 2018 Eva Prados Rodríguez Translation © 2021 International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). What do gender violence...
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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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Benjamin on the Border
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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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Conscription and Critique
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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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Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?
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Critical Times (2025) 8 (1): 170–196.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Leire Urricelqui Abstract This article analyzes the frames of violence and suffering at play when perpetrators of violence are labeled terrorists. Building on Judith Butler's notion of grievability, it proposes the concept of forbidden grief to understand how the terrorist is constituted...
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Abolition Pedagogy: Force Fields of Critique
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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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#DisarmUC: Disrupting the Arms Race
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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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