Critical Times

A peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to the intellectual and political project of critical theory

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Issue 8:3 of Critical Times is out now!

All articles available here: https://t.co/hNmRdlZy9z

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From our new issue: "Radicalizing 'Bandung' in Cairo: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the Renewal of Anticolonial Marxism" by Thiti Jamkajornkeiat.

Available through open access here: https://t.co/xgRoTuO8PA

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@whywinter From our new issue: "Does the Left Need New Imaginaries?: Hope, the Education of Desire, and the Betrayal of Utopia" by @whywinter

Freely available here: https://t.co/vjK6sZRHXB

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"If the 'education of desire' has a progressive political content, it must involve the discovery and exploration of new forms of cooperation." @whywinter

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I wrote this piece a few years to try to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s finally out now and is meant to give a sense of what and why it is happening.

Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War https://t.co/KNQQ9ZCs2u

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"Now is her third season of displacement and yearning, after the loss of a world that remains raucously alive in her heart."

Read "On Ethnographic Barbarism" by @mu_kha2 in the Critical Times website:

https://t.co/OJriNp9G8q

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From our new issue: "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War" by @minlayla77 traces key elements of the political economy of Sudan's war and situates it within a longer history of state violence.

Freely available here: https://t.co/ufyD26SF04

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"What was the point of scholarship in general and anthropology in particular if it could not help us now?"

Munira Khayyat, "On Ethnographic Barbarism"

Now available on the Critical Times website:
https://t.co/OJriNp9G8q

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The latest issue of Critical Times includes an interview with Makhosazana Xaba, renowned South African feminist poet, writer, and translator of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) into isiZulu.

Read the wide-ranging conversation here:
https://t.co/K8pAROkWtY

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From our archive: Milad Odabaei's essay on reverberations of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

"Sickness of the Revolution: Loss, Fetishism, and the Impossibility of Politics"

https://t.co/fbT8L4G0EG

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The Weekly Read is "Race and Caste: Crisis and Histories of the Postcolonial Contemporary" by Ruchi Chaturvedi and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi. The article is the introduction to a special issue of the open-access journal Critical Times (8:2). https://t.co/HgefEt4QcJ

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"Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality, Part I" is the first of two special issues guest-edited by Ruchi Chaturvedi and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi on the topic of race and caste.

As always, all Critical Times articles are available to everyone through open access.

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Issue 8:2 of Critical Times is out now!
https://t.co/UcWYwsX8lR

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Khaled Furani's "Paradoxes of Liberating Palestine: A Letter to Michael Walzer on his 90th Birthday"

Available now on our website:

https://t.co/HDjsvCv3DL

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"In this diluvian moment when no one is spared, Palestinian liberation can be your ark too."

Khaled Furani

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"Flirting with the Absolute and the Limitless: Neoliberal Violence as Seen from the South"

An exchange between Gisela Catanzaro and Zeynep Gambetti (@zgambetti)

https://t.co/OEiOf3F7yJ

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"Some of neoliberalism's methods were invented in the periphery and then brought back to the core to be refined and adapted. Decisive, in our view, is not so much the ideal or idealized rationality guiding neoliberalism ('neoliberal reason'), but what has been done in its name."

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An Exchange between Daniel Loick and Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz

Available now on the Critical Times blog:

https://t.co/p1VwMIQaIK

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"Neoliberalism has other effects in regions where, in addition to surplus populations, there are those which I would call 'waste,' and this produces effects other than resurgent fascist tendencies"

Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz

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An Exchange between Daniel Loick and Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz

Now available on the Critical Times blog:

https://t.co/p1VwMIPCTc

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"By paying closer attention to the hatred of surplus populations in contemporary global fascisms, we can see another dimension of authoritarian domination: not just objectification—disposing the other—but also abjection, disposing of the other."

Daniel Loick