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Critical Times 3:2

Vol. 3, No. 2 (2020)

Essays in this issue explore the violence behind contemporary spectacle and the possibilities of radical aesthetics, unsettling our understanding of regimes of the sensible in the process. Subjects range from feminist protests to the films of Felipe Cazals, from the art of Maria Eichhorn to Beckett’s Endgame. Critical encounters and aesthetic contributions provide new angles on Puerto Rico's people's assemblies, survivors of the Armenian genocide, and Goya's relevance to Brazil's political realities.

Scholarly Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Vulnerability
and the Feminist Revolt

Leticia Sabsay

An Archive of Violence: The Obscene Visuality of Sensationalism

Sergio Delgado Moya

Art, Dispossession, and Imaginations of Historical Justice: Thinking with the Works of Maria Eichhorn and Dilek Winchester

Banu Karaca

At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do

ATHENA ATHANASIOU

Critical Encounters

Checklists: On Puerto Rico’s SoVerano

ROCÍO ZAMBRANA

From the Ottoman Empire to Post-1923:
The Catastrophe as Seen by the Angel of History

DENIZ YONUCU and TALIN SUCIYAN

Artistic Intervention

Los desastres de la guerra
The Disasters of War

NUNO RAMOS
Translated by Marlena Gittleman

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Figura/figure 2. Los desastres de la guerra: Con razón o sin ella (2018). Fumaça sobre impressão em papel (smoke on printed paper).