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Published: 01 December 2020
FIGURE 9. Keywords ( Kata-kata Kunci ). Instructions for use: Name one word that represents an idea. Write it down on a post-it, then paste it onto the wall or a whiteboard. Usefulness: To map the ideas developed during discussion. The keywords can also be collected before the discussion to allow
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Reading Saba Mahmood: Delayed Words of Gratitude
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 25–28.
Published: 01 April 2019
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 58–84.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the colonized defy colonial and hegemonic narratives by resisting incorporation into the order of the intelligible and recognizable. Both writers believe in the power of words, but their words, liberated from the function of signification, release silences as they release the voices of the colonized...
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Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 7. Tal al-Zaatar painting intervention in Mestre, September 1976. Rachid Korachi paints the words “Tal al-Zaatar” in Arabic. Source: Sergio Traquandi.
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What Is the University For?
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Premesh Lalu Abstract After apartheid, that is, after what some call racism's last word, how does the university institutionalized by the operation of apartheid reason imagine itself as being in and of the world? This is a question that lies at the heart of asking “What is the university...
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On Crystallization
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 187–232.
Published: 01 August 2021
...David Marriott Abstract This essay considers the various meanings of the word “crystallization” in Frantz Fanon's main theses on national culture and his political philosophy more generally. It also further considers the implications of crystallization alongside Fanon's notion of the “nation...
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Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 11. Poem by Alejandra Pizarnik written on the bathroom wall next to the graffiti depicted in figure 10 and alongside the words “La vigilancia no es protección” (“Surveillance is not protection”) and “Incendiarias” (“Incendiaries”). Photo by Marisa Belausteguigoitia. Taken with a cell
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Thinking about Religion through Wittgenstein
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
... not, of course, looking to construct a universal definition of that word. My usage of the word “religion” in this piece as well as in other writings assumes that it is not always necessary to provide a definition in order to make its meaning comprehensible because and to the extent that its grammar already does...
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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
... the emancipation of the working class from all situations of domination—in other words, unless its goal is one of creating a society freed from all relations between masters and slaves. Thus, the following question emerges: What needs must we satisfy such that socialist emancipation is not revealed to be a mere...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 209–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
... promises to rectify. This expiatory allure of law is the danger. At those moments in which new relations are forming, law appears as salvation, and for this reason it can slyly encroach without any violence in the impressive sense of the word. But the encroachment of law is nevertheless always accompanied...
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On the Virtues of Holding Your Tongue
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 471–477.
Published: 01 December 2020
... without need of a musical score (404). Asad here is highlighting an aspect of learning and embodied practice, one that will be recognizable to those familiar with his oeuvre. Yet, its familiarity aside, this image of signs dissolving, of words fading into bodies, remains striking. Describing embodied...
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“That Great Mother of Danger”
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 257–270.
Published: 01 August 2023
... ] to which the very symbolic order is permanently exposed” (69). 14. Carlo Caduff builds upon Foucault's work, drawing from it the notion of a “public culture of danger.” Caduff's compelling argument—where the word risk is as ubiquitous as the word danger —does not engage that conceptual...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 519–527.
Published: 01 December 2020
... He went on further to state, in a Christ-like manner, “No one has instigated me, whether by their acts or by their words to this act. This is my decision and I am the only one responsible for this. Do not trouble my friends and enemies on this after I am gone.” 5 While his death was considered...
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Humanism: A Critical Reappraisal
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 29–38.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of Contemporary Philosophy does not include the word humanism nor, for that matter, the name Foucault , since both are seemingly less relevant than zombies and Einstein to today's thinkers. It is true that the editors of the volume acknowledge that they specifically want to give their readers “a sense...
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Feminine Desire, Feminist Politics
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of feminist revolt like those instantiated by Not One Less. In their words, “the reframing of a social movement, rendering it more or less visible or intelligible, is often marked by the social conditions that obscured the movement in the first place.” They go on to observe that López “embraces two distinct...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., and Indigenous lands to meet people and communities. I invite them to make a book through a process in which words are transmuted from oral to written and from spoken to read as they traverse bodies and spaces. People speak to me, and I write their words verbatim by hand. Each time they pause to inhale, I start...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... translational politics Orientalize the German Marx, rendering his words the site for reflections on language itself. Ever the comparatist, Spivak allows a certain estrangement of the German language to distinguish two different registers of representation, something she explains even before quoting Marx's...
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The Earth's Remembrance: A Conversation between Moira Ivana Millán and Jean-Daniel Lafontant
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 413–435.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... For various reasons, the conversation could not happen directly between these two important authorities. With their permission, I put them next to each other here, combining words that I felt spoke to each other. Rume Mañun! Mesi anpil ! Thank you from the depth of my heart, Moira y Papa Da. —Cecilia Lisa...
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Writing, Plot, and Desire
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . These were dramatic, heartrending readings. I read these books submerged in too much sentimentalism, which today seems unnecessary to me. By contrast, Hemingway's novel entered me in another way, as a source of astonishment, as a discovery in the most literal sense of the word. From that point forward, I...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of artworks by twentieth-century women. So, in a general sense, that's been our trajectory and the idea of the collective. SD: Why “LASTESIS” in capital letters and all one word? Is there a dramatized reflection or meaning in that name for the collective? LASTESIS: Definitely! First, we call...
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