Critical Times 9:1-2

This double special issue, “Climate Crisis 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.