ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Critical Times is a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by Duke University Press and 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 publishes scholarly essays, interviews, dialogues, dispatches, visual art, and various other forms of critical reflection and response. We welcome submissions that engage with social and political theory, literature, philosophy, art, anthropology, and other fields in the humanities and critical social sciences.

Critical Times seeks to redress missed opportunities for contact between the Global South and Global North, and to counter current divisions of knowledge. Calling hemispheric epistemologies into question in an effort to revitalize left thought for our times, the journal features translated works by authors writing in languages other than English whose thought does not circulate widely in the Anglophone academy. We publish work on a wide range of regional and intellectual traditions, and we encourage situated submissions that attend to historical and political conditions with the aim of grasping their complexity and identifying sites of potential transformation.

Critical Times publishes essays that address contemporary authoritarian and neo-fascist politics, nativist cultural formations, and debt and other forms of economic exclusion, as well as work on emancipatory social worlds and forms of life. We publish essays that analyze emerging forms of occupation, colonialism, and dispossession; race and racism; gender violence; war and apartheid; neoliberal legal and economic regimes; sovereignty and post-national power; border regimes and migration; technology and biopolitics; ecology, climate change, and environmental justice; and religion and secularism. We also feature contributions on critical aesthetics; the intellectual work of social movements; contemporary challenges and alternatives to the university; communism, socialism, and anticolonial struggles; transnational solidarity; radical democracy; civil disobedience; abolition and Black study; and revolt and revolution.