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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 14–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
... on choice, to others more preoccupied with reproductive justice. This article argues that the recent legal limitations on access to abortion in Poland and other countries are central to the current effort to reestablish the rule of the state of exception. It also analyzes the weak resistance of grassroots...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
... centered on brave subjectivity, the autonomous subject detached from everything, into a multitude in revolt—this is what the women's protests accomplished. Since I've been theorizing about weak resistance, this was for me a dream come true. Women were doing something that I was actually trying...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
... our country with weakness.” 1 While January 6, 2021, will stand out as the day of an attempted coup in the United States, it was an event that had been a long time in the making. After all, we have witnessed years of right-wing politicians, pundits, media, and activists who have encouraged white...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 645–662.
Published: 01 December 2022
... manifests Palestinian aspirations for freedom that have continued to permeate the prison while transforming it into a space of struggle and reproducing Palestine as resistance. Each singular/collective hunger strike interrupts the colonial order within and beyond the prison walls and asserts Palestinians...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... theory of the “one-dimensionality” of consumer society with increasing signs of resistance and opposition during the 1960s and 1970s, finally resolved to give up the idea of the proletariat as the revolutionary subject and began to identify “outcasts and outsiders” (such as the unemployed, refuseniks...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 304–317.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Abdaljawad Omar Abstract This essay considers the war in Gaza from the perspective of resistance as an anticoncept. It draws inspiration from the notion of the informe (formless) as described by Georges Bataille to understand how resistance acts as a formless operation that deforms the colonial...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and anti-Muslim sentiments, as they are articulated in populist movements all over the globe in varying constellations and to different degrees? This essay argues that, although it is a productive category for the diagnosis of our times, ressentiment alone is too weak a tool for critical theory. In order...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 445–475.
Published: 01 December 2021
... for revolutionaries, particularly in our current situation.” The necessity of this historical awareness stems from the Paris Commune's “many similarities with the experience of the Palestinian resistance.” 33 Even historical figures resonate between the two contexts, with Wasfi al-Tal (the Jordanian prime minister...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2024
... that Native Americans and Latinx and Maya migrants have to borderlands—if we reinstate difference, relation, and plurality—what becomes visible? 1 What other ways of understanding and relating become available? What modes of resistance against the violent metaphysics of the humanist border appear...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 78–86.
Published: 01 April 2022
... is a relatively simple one. It invites reflection on “Three Horizons of the Future”: Horizon 1: the participants' observations of the current state of business as usual, its weaknesses, its problems, and its assets; Horizon 2: the participants' assessment of potential disruptions, new actors, and competing...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., democratically and nonviolently). Their compromises with capitalism, their arrangements, and their weaknesses were nothing more than a way of making themselves acceptable to the masters of their time as possible masters of the future. Is it not in these terms that we should understand their fascination...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., particularly through the insurgent forms of study that took place during the student occupation of the administration buildings, students revived a politics of decolonization to get at the longue durée of racial violence they were seeking to describe and resist, and also established alliances with workers...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... , 318 . 19. Muñoz, Disidentifications , 74 . 20. Brown, “Resisting Left Melancholy,” 26 . 21. Foucault, preface, xv . 22. Bloch and Adorno, “Something's Missing,” 1 . 23. Muñoz, Cruising Utopia , 26 . 24. Muñoz, “Living the Wrong Life Otherwise...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 434–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
... it is this contradiction—a weak, precarious word for this—between, on the one hand, the demand that rape be considered on its own terms, as something that does not belong under another category but rather as a crime against humanity, and the protection of potential accusers at risk of revictimization on the other...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and other outrages, if he thought it wise. Knowing that his hand was weak and any misstep could cost him his career, Conolly, who was adamant that the Alawis had long been the masterminds of Muslim revolts in Malabar, chose to negotiate. The fear was of a costly rebellion if the revered sayyids were...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 466–478.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and social, racial, and ethnic justice. Only such movements have the capacity and imagination to lead a revolution fought by citizens for structural change and through peaceful means. In an era of neoliberal globalization and of globalized social and political resistances to it, such a new path...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
...’: Ramakrishna and His Times .” Economic and Political Weekly 27 , no. 29 ( 1992 ): 1543 – 66 . Scott James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1985 . Seely Clinton . 2019 . The Scent of Sunlight: Poems by Jibananda...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 58–84.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Amirah Silmi Abstract This essay considers the works of two Arab writers, Assia Djebar and Adania Shibli, to examine how silences in their texts are signs of both oppression and of resistance and rebellion. It seeks to show how the silences as well as the cries and incomprehensible voices...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and psychic distortion and decalage, bitter irony, and an abiding sense of the futility both of imperial modernity and of the fight against it. Young, weak-witted Stevie Verloc spends his time in his sister Winnie’s kitchen “drawing circles with compass and pencil on a piece of paper.” Stevie will eventually...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
... raison d'état that seeks to re-establish unity among state apparatuses and to enhance state power from above, and, on the other, the popular energies of resistance that have countered the coup attempt from below. Scrutinizing the conjuncture that has enabled the AKP to assume leadership over both forces...