CRITICAL TIMES 9:1-2
Now available online through Duke University Press
This double special issue, “Crisis Climate Politics,” is guest edited by Wendy Brown and Timothy Mitchell. A commitment to rethinking European modernity and working toward a “politics of repair” connects the diverse contributions to this issue. Scholarly essays include proposals for new critical orientations and terms: residual reification, reparative democracy, banal violence, the EconoCon. They offer critiques of privileged forms of climate governance, including philanthropy and the system of carbon accounting; analyze “crooked beasts” as expressing a generalized uncertainty related to the climate crisis; and examine an oil refinery in the US Virgin Islands. The issue also features an experimental collaboration engaging with the planetary crisis and an artistic contribution that brings together three bodies of water across two continents in a multi-media exhibition.
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.