
CRITICAL TIMES 5:2
Now available online through Duke University Press
This issue covers topics ranging from the minor and the subaltern in Qadri Ismail’s work on Sri Lanka, the aesthetics of resistance to Turkey’s “security operations” targeting Kurdish towns, Islamic thinkers at the periphery of the anticolonial archive, Tanazania’s collective response to the 2011 electrical power crisis, and academic freedom and the politics of dissent. The Critical Encounters section features translated pieces on the concept of consent and on the visual and narrative strategies of the Mexican feminist movement, and an essay on the political utopias of contemporary Angolan activism. It concludes with a portfolio of photographs inspired by the late Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti.
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"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, a project of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, is a peer reviewed open access journal published by Duke University Press with the aim of foregrounding encounters between canonical critical theory and various traditions of critique emerging from other historical legacies, seeking to highlight the multiple forms that critical thought takes today.
Critical Times seeks to reflect on and facilitate the work of transnational intellectual networks that draw upon critical theory and political practice across various world regions. Calling into question hemispheric epistemologies in order to revitalize left critical thought for these times, the journal publishes essays, interviews, dialogues, dispatches, visual art, and various platforms for critical reflection, engaging with social and political theory, literature, philosophy, art criticism, and other fields within the humanities and social sciences.