CRITICAL TIMES 7:3
Solidarity’s Challenge
Now available online through Duke University Press
This special issue, “Solidarity’s Challenge,” confronts the difficulties and contradictions of solidarity. Complicating our understanding of solidarity as a force that coheres and coordinates subjects in perfect unity, the issue’s introduction, scholarly essays, activist reflections, and artistic interventions probe the logics of exclusion underlying certain forms of solidarity and look for new models amid contemporary crises. The contributions to this special issue ask: within the restrictive and statist frameworks revealed by police violence, crackdowns on encampments for Palestine, and regimes of neoliberal austerity, what counterhegemonic forms of solidarity remain possible? Across militarized borders and a territorialized earth, can solidarity take us down new paths, leading us through ”modest tunnels," onto “makeshift barricades, broken ramparts, nomadic ships, steadfast olive trees,” and away from the current political order?
Critical Times Reading List on Palestine
As we witness Israel's ongoing war of obliteration in Palestine, we call readers' attention to the reflections on Palestine that we have published in every volume of the journal. Click here to access the reading list.
In the Midst | Blog
"In the Midst" conveys the difficulties of writing during critical times, and registers the importance of writing from within concrete, unfolding situations, of staying with the troubles of the moment, of thinking from particular grounds, and of allowing for responsive, experimental, and tentative interventions.
Critical Times is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to the intellectual and political project of critical theory. Recognizing the many forms that theory takes today, the journal works to call attention to the ongoing, collective reinvention of critique.
Critical Times features work from various world regions, with particular interests in theory from the southern hemisphere and other places beyond Europe and the United States, and in practices of cross-regional intellectual exchange and struggle. The journal is a project of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs and is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.