Critical Times 3:3

Vol. 3, No. 3 (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.

Capping the issue are dispatches from global student movements and an artistic intervention from the KUNCI Study Forum and Collective.

Scholarly Essays

Resilience and Sovereignty in the Context of Contemporary Biopolitics

RODRIGO DE LA FABIÁN

“Merde Alors!”: A Neo-Fascist Daddy Is Marching on Brussels

LORENZO BERNINI

From Violence as Anti-Politics to Politics as Anti-Violence

ÉTIENNE BALIBAR

Artistic Intervention

The School of Improper Education

KUNCI STUDY FORUM & COLLECTIVE

FIGURE 9. Keywords (Kata-kata Kunci). Instructions for use: Name one word that represents an idea. Write it down on a post-it, then paste it onto the wall or a whiteboard. Usefulness: To map the ideas developed during discussion. The keywords can also be collected before the discussion to allow participants to learn about one another’s aspirations for the activity

Special Section

GRAMMARS OF RELIGION: TALAL ASAD ON WITTGENSTEIN

Introduction: On Seeing from “a Religious Point of View”

CHARLES HIRSCHKIND

Thinking about Religion through Wittgenstein

TALAL ASAD

Homo Discens

GIL ANIDJAR

Thinking across Traditions of Thought

HUMEIRA IQTIDAR

Writing in the Eye of the Storm

BRUCE B. LAWRENCE

“Ethics and Aesthetics Are One”

KHALED FURANI

On the Virtues of Holding Your Tongue

CHARLES HIRSCHKIND

Critical Encounters

GLOBAL STUDENT STRUGGLES
IN AND AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY

Introduction: Global Student Struggles in and against the University

DONNA HONARPISHEH

1388 Safar

SLAVS AND TATARS

Being a Feminist in the Fallist Movement in Contemporary South Africa

MBALI MAZIBUKO

Palestinians inside Israel: A Student Movement without a University

MAJD KAYYAL
TRANSLATED BY Lubna Safi

الفلسطينيّون داخل إسرائيل: حركة طلّابيّة دون جامعة

مجد كيّال

Not Paradise but Prison: Stand against the Continuing Siege of Kashmir

PINJRA TOD

स्वर्ग नहीं, बिल्क जेल: कश्मीर की घेराबंदी के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाएं

पिंजरा तोड़

Excerpt from The Official Anti-Milo Toolkit

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Beezer De Martelly, Julia Havard, Amanda Armstrong-Price, Juliet Kunkel, AND Sarah Cowan

Rohith-Movement, Conversion, and Renaming: Notes from Hyderabad

DICKENS LEONARD

Political Struggle in Search of Strategy

ZACHARY MANFREDI

Cultural Politics of Historically Marginalized Students in Indian Universities

GAURAV J. PATHANIA

#DisarmUC: Disrupting the Arms Race

BLU BUCHANAN and AMARA MILLER

COLA, COVID, and 50/500 Years of Struggle: A Dispatch from the University of California, Berkeley, Wildcat Strike

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, ETHNIC STUDIES GRADUATE COLLECTIVE