CRITICAL TIMES 8:3
Now available online through Duke University Press
The scholarly essays in this issue look to scenes of solidarity, resistance, and revolution. The issue includes a special section on “Imprisoning Politics” with contributions that examine the prison’s political functions and unsettle the distinction between liberal and nonliberal carceral systems. Scholarly essays in the issue include a reading of Brecht alongside Palestinian filmmaker Noor Abed; an intellectual history of four thinkers from the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization; a genealogy of criminological positivism in 19th-century Italy that explores the emergence of the political prisoner as “society’s internal enemy”; a study of life-writing by the terror-accused in contemporary India; and a haunting archival encounter with a prison library assembled by Palestinian political captives inside Israeli prisons. The issue also features translated prison poems by the Egyptian movement poet Ahmed Fouad Negm and an artistic contribution of collages depicting scenes from Tarrafal, Cabo Verde, the site of a 20th-century penal camp for Portuguese political prisoners and anti-colonial freedom fighters.
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
In the Midst conveys the difficulties of writing during critical times, and registers the importance of writing from within concrete, unfolding situations, 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.