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... these aesthetic traditions depends on whether Adorno's aesthetics can be decoupled from the antiblack racism in the genealogy of Western aesthetics and whether Adorno's negative dialectics can be reconciled to the transformative force of art, as that force is as central in Black aesthetics as is the negative...

...Zeynep Gambetti Abstract This essay interrogates whether existent analytical tools remain adequate to identify and assess what is perceived as the revival of fascistic tendencies today, ultimately arguing that they are not. Fascism cannot be expected to assume the same forms it did a century ago...

...Athena Athanasiou Abstract This essay engages with the question of critical possibility—or, the possibility of critique—and, more specifically, the political temporalities that sustain critical potential in the present and for the future. The essay asks whether and how the aesthetic can serve...

... how the contradictions inherent in the current legal category of consent obscure how rape functions, not only as a major crime on par with murder but also as a weapon in the preservation of the patriarchal symbolic economy and as a key element in the arsenal of war. The author asks whether it's time...

...Neil Vallelly Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new round of obituaries for neoliberalism, with some declaring that we have entered the stage of “postneoliberalism.” Rather than weighing in on the debates about whether neoliberalism has or has not ended, this article reflects...

...Christian Sorace Abstract This essay is a critical exploration of Peter Sloterdijk's philosophy of spherology. It asks whether we can live apart from protective spheres, find new forms of being-in-common, and discover new forms of immunity in the wreckage of sphere-based existence. It argues...

...), the article analyzes the difficulties that the term terrorist presents for equal grief, inherently dividing the population between grievable lives and those whose grief will be forbidden. Concluding by considering the contemporary violence in the Gaza Strip, the article examines whether there is space...

... by reflecting on the question of whether or not violence is sanctioned, and it soon becomes clear that a critique of violence cannot be approached by remaining restricted within the framework implied by this initial question about the justification of violence. A critique of violence does not answer...

... and to give way to a situation in which there is no question of whether or not power, or indeed violence, has been applied, only a question of what value has been assigned to its use. There is, in short, no doubt that law has sanctioned the use of violence, and that political surrogates have been put...

... freedom in light of these attacks? My suggestion is that we must reformulate and publicize the critical nature of our work as central not only to the university but to democracy more broadly, to the extent that critical thought, whether inside or outside the university, is essentially related to dissent...

..., for many years now. We joined the women's strike almost immediately because as a union we know that capitalism doesn't end at the factory gates. It influences our whole lives: where we live, how we live, what we buy, where we spend our vacations, whether we have any spare time, and how we spend that time...

... signify but also what has been recently instituted in its name or even in reaction to its existence, whether as expressions and implementations in the first case, or counter-measures and palliatives in the second. Let's not forget that the word “crisis” is linked to judgment and decision...

... of instrumentality. Compared to natural law theory, which judges means in relation to whether they serve just ends and is therefore driven entirely by instrumentalism, positive law theory can be seen, at least provisionally, as shunning all criteria of instrumentality, as it focuses primarily on the question...

... as an assistant professor and was finishing the revisions of her groundbreaking book Politics of Piety . Among this rapacious group of characters, Saba was fierce and luminous in argument. It matters not whether and when we disagreed—where specifically we broke on how to position or pull an argument in the heavy...

... grounded their findings in a psychoanalytical framework—and thus, whether one shares it or not, have been able to claim results on an explanatory level—this framework or a functional equivalent for it is either missing in most of the contemporary studies of ressentiment or introduced ad hoc (as when Wendy...

... about the law was whether to include the principle of “equality.” Religious members of the Knesset objected to the inclusion of equality because they feared it would impinge on religious issues. 21 As a compromise, the principle of equality was excluded from the text, but the term “democratic...

... of rethinking, from a minority perspective and from that of the critique of social science and of representation, the problem of democracy; of considering whether representative democracy, understood not as an egalitarian mode of government or as the best possible system one can conceive” but as a form...

...figure 10 . Rural protesters debate whether destruction of private property is a legitimate response to state repression. Dar Al Sayyad . ...

... © 2023 International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs 2023 Erratum for Amaryah Shaye Armstrong, “Losing Salvation: Notes toward a Wayward Black Theology,” Critical Times 6, no. 2 (2023): 324–44. The last line of this essay should read: “Whether tending to the liveliness...