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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 200–223.
Published: 01 August 2020
... trafficking that led the tabloid to popularity. The visuality of sensationalism works mostly in the service of power: it keeps certain kinds of violence both out of sight and overexposed. Cazals and other artists and writers who draw materials from sensationalism complicate this visuality and counter...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 114–142.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-identical subject can only—in “Six Key Movements to Unlock a Possible History of Materials”—be an effect of a hermeneutic conjuring practice, which Shibli's language resolutely disallows. We may underline Hatoum's attention to the visual in this context, in her speaking of “the visual poetry of the work...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 444–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
... taken place at the Angel of Independence in Mexico City and the Department of Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Over the past fifty years, feminist political strategies have proliferated, exerting a significant, direct impact on the visual regime...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 85–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the twentieth century, reinvented literary criticism and cultural critique in the 1950s and '60s. His grandson, one of the most prominent Arab visual artists, has been redefining the critical approach to visual representation since the Lebanese civil war. The article pits Husayn Muruwwa's critique based...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 314–320.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of geography, historicity, and visual representation. blackness postapartheid post–civil rights race black visual studies There is a black, A black man on the run Through a lonely Beijing street There he goes My God he's running again This time through Brooklyn's Howard Beach And there he...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 618–631.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the strike, we are reminded that many strikes were connected to elements of working-class life that did not directly concern production. Looking to recent historical instances of the feminist strike recorded in the visual archive, this article seeks to broaden the feminist understanding of the strike...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., reconstructs idealized memories of Kashmir as a “lost paradise,” animating a fading sense of home for the filmmaker and future generations of her family (and, by extension, for future generations of Kashmiri Pandits). But while Ghar ka Pata mobilizes the family's visual archive to document familial loss...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 347–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., practices, and materializes alternate political imaginaries. 7 In “Stateless Memory,” Marianne Hirsch moves from her personal history as a stateless person to visual works by Mirta Kupferminc and Wangechi Mutu that gesture toward counter-national forms of community and belonging. “Stateless memory...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 435–465.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and Visual Icons in an Age of Social Media: Alan Kurdi and the Emergence of an Impromptu Public of Moral Spectatorship .” Public 23 , no. 4 ( 2016 ): 343 – 62 . Noack Rick . “ Germany Is Housing Refugees within Holocaust-Era Concentration Camps .” Washington Post , January 30 , 2015...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the central principle conveyed in liberalist accounts of socialism—a violent statist suppression of personal desire and liberty. When the Cultural Revolution is inaugurated in the village, the Red Guards are described as wanting to “enhance the pleasure, visual appeal, and the ability to draw a crowd when...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 310–336.
Published: 01 August 2022
... explosion targeting a neighborhood where one of those buildings was located were spreading, the photograph is not only a visualization of a tasteless sexist “joke,” where passionate love ( aşk ) comes to stand for sexual violence 54 and the annihilation of human lives is presented as the sexual violation...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 502–518.
Published: 01 December 2024
... is one component that shapes—at times violently—the types of encounters that take place. In its relation to human action, the plane is enrolled in the visual, ethical, and political complexities and limits of undertaking “aerial solidarity” work at the border. In the period since 2017, following...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 486–487.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that disrupts the forward-moving traffic of cars in the backdrop, the image serves as a visual gesture that calls attention to the untold narratives of Islam in France. While the Seine is commonly referred to as an iconic emblem of Parisian cultural identity, it also carries the elided history of October 17...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 377–401.
Published: 01 December 2024
... resonates with the minjung art aesthetic of the woodblock print due to its usage of agrarian folk motifs and its visual intensity. In the 1980s, minjung artists used the woodblock print to document the people's resistance against state violence; its simple black-and-white graphics were often intended...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 554–559.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Gaza ya gamrati” (Oh Gaza, my heart). Assembled from our bodies, tents, and visual materials—all out of their proper place—the encampment punctures the official time of the university, which has made no time to oppose the genocide of the Palestinians. The encampment repositions Gaza in a present...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 194–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
...; I reinscribed what I hear, creating visual analogues to the intellectual adventures. At the heart of the project has been an ongoing fascination with subjects that are both challenging and extraordinary to me. While a language may be inaccessible on one level, it may be captivating and inspiring...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., of significatory or representational undecidability.” 38 So if the time of the political is to be not only read and critiqued but also lived, it must take its pulse from poetry, narrative, photography, performance, and the visual and auditory cultures of political memory. Enigma' s curiously heterogenic...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 604–617.
Published: 01 December 2022
... existencia está atada al ingreso, cuyas tareas subsidian la acumulación y cuyos territorios y medios de vida son fagocitados por mafias y corporaciones. Aproximémonos entonces brevemente, en términos visuales, a cinco huelgas (poniendo lo de huelga un poco entre paréntesis) para ver qué arroja esta...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 263–283.
Published: 01 August 2021
... “die-ins” organized to protest racialized police violence or extinction. Most of the time, however, words accompany embodied action, giving it further significance. But in verbalized acts, too, the bodily surface is full of visual and auditory cues that help us make sense of the acts of others...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2022
... photographer Leslie Shedden in the 1950s and 1960s. The book frames Shedden as a visual artist, subsuming photos that were initially taken for vastly different reasons—company accounting records, workplace documentation, individual workers' domestic use (keepsakes)—into one collection which is marketed as “art...
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