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Inaugural Volume

Vol. 1, No. 1 (2018)

This inaugural volume of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts marked both by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and by the emergence of new authoritarian political and cultural formations. Some of the essays in this issue analyze the sudden consolidation of right-wing populisms, their underlying totalitarian undercurrents, and the attendant shattering of the political and juridical regimes of truth that held sway until recently. Other contributions aim at exploring the popular potential for progressive forms of governance on the left, observing its current achievements and pitfalls, or seeking radical precedents in the historical past.

Special Section

Emergencies, XXXI Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres, Rosario, Argentina, October 8, 2016

Transnational Feminist Strikes and Solidarities

Edited by Ramsey McGlazer
This multilingual special section gathers activist texts and theoretical reflections on the International Women's Strike of March 8, 2017. Contributors from Turkey, Argentina, Poland, and Italy consider the strike's implications and effects, emphasizing the ways in which it both indexes and advances, both speaks to and spurs, a radical re-politicization of feminism. Texts by Rita Segato and Françoise Vergès provide critical frameworks for understanding this process. All of the texts collected here—essays, dispatches, chronicles, manifestos, and an interview—indicate the urgency and the promise of a feminism that refuses racism, capitalist exploitation, environmental depredation, and state violence.
EDITORIAL STATEMENT

Introduction

Ramsey McGlazer
DISPATCH

Peace and Beyond: Women’s Activist Alliances under Turkey’s “Regime of Emergency”

Nisa Göksel
Activist Text

Critical Times / The Earth Trembles

Verónica Gago, Ni Una Menos
Translated by Ramsey McGlazer, Verónica Carchedi, Liz Mason-Deese
Activist Text

Critical Times / La tierra tiembla

Verónica Gago, Ni Una Menos
Reflection

A Manifesto in Four Themes

Rita Laura Segato
Translated by Ramsey McGlazer
Reflection

Manifiesto en cuatro temas

Rita Laura Segato
Interview

Migrating Tactics: An Interview with Ewa Majewska and Katarzyna Rakowska

Marianne Kaletzky, Ramsey McGlazer
Activist Text

The Strike that Made a Difference

Paola Rudan, ∫connessioni Precarie, Non Una di Meno Roma
Reflection

On Women and their Wombs: Capitalism, Racialization, Feminism

Françoise Vergès
Activist Text

Call to the International Women’s Strike – March 8, 2018

Ni Una Menos
Activist Text

Llamamiento al paro internacional de mujeres – 8 de marzo 2018

Ni Una Menos

Scholarly Essays

EDITORIAL STATEMENT

Prefatory Remarks: Crisis and Critique

Juan Obarrio

Counter-Critical Theory: An Intervention in Contemporary Critical Thought and Practice

Bernard E. Harcourt

Year One: Reflections on Turkey’s Second Founding and the Politics of Division

Banu Bargu
translation

Clausewitz and la pensée 68

Éric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato
Translated by Ames Hodges, Katharine Wallerstein

Neoliberalism’s Frankenstein: Authoritarian Freedom in Twenty-First Century “Democracies”

Wendy Brown

Hostages to Democracy

Nandini Sundar

Preliminary Thoughts on Left Governmentality

Stathis Gourgouris

Who’s Afraid of the Imperative Mandate?

Massimiliano Tomba

Poetry

Notes on Vallejo and Redemptive Poetry

César Vallejo, Gabriela Nouzeilles

Notas sobre Vallejo y poesía emancipatoria

César Vallejo, Gabriela Nouzeilles

Artistic Interventions

class=RASTROS / TRACES, Fiamma Montezemolo.

Traces

Fiamma Montezemolo
class=With Respect to Residue, Raqs Media Collective, 2004.

Foreground Maneuvers

Raqs Media Collective
class=Enclosed, Alessandra Sanguinetti.

Enclosed

Alessandra Sanguinetti