Critical Times
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A peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to the intellectual and political project of critical theory
Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now! Featuring @UssamaMakdisi, Ajay Skaria, @HennyZiai, Zamansele Nsele, @ArtistSenzeni, Adil Hasan Khan, and Leire Urricelqui. All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…


"[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states." From the latest issue of Critical Times, Leire Urricelqui on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…
![Critical_Times_'s tweet image. "[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states."
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Leire Urricelqui on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gwe8S65bEAcbdhe.jpg)
"What happens to religion in the Philosophical Investigations? Is it gone, or is it everywhere?" From the latest issue of Critical Times, @HennyZiai on Wittgenstein, Talal Asad, and nonsense: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

my article on the genealogy of the general strike — had been meaning to repost this soon anyway, cool that people are finding it
very cool paper that traces back the concept of the general strike to Robert Wedderburn, a Black abolitionist and communist from 19th century Jamaica
very cool paper that traces back the concept of the general strike to Robert Wedderburn, a Black abolitionist and communist from 19th century Jamaica
From the latest issue of Critical Times: @UssamaMakdisi, "Beyond the Palestine Exception." read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

Critical Times Volume 8, Issue 1, is online and available open access. View the TOC and read "Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom" by Ajay Skaria: buff.ly/gxOd4YW
Part of a 40 piece panel first shown at Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2022 ! I continue to work in monumental scale ! Ode to Theodorahs of now and then . #visitartists #artistsonX
Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now! Featuring @UssamaMakdisi, Ajay Skaria, @HennyZiai, Zamansele Nsele, @ArtistSenzeni, Adil Hasan Khan, and Leire Urricelqui. All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…
"[E]ach of these ships—and the other ships they inspired—helps create a floating canvas of transinsurgency that carries the seeds of decolonization through the sea." From the Critical Times archive, @NikolaCosmi on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…
![Critical_Times_'s tweet image. "[E]ach of these ships—and the other ships they inspired—helps create a floating canvas of transinsurgency that carries the seeds of decolonization through the sea."
From the Critical Times archive, @NikolaCosmi on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtLxupKbMAIeQIW.png)
"But save in caricatural stoicisms, there is no such thing as a freedom of the mind that does not strive for a freedom in action." NEW from Ajay Skaria for "In the Midst," the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/06/06/the…

"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism." NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronica_gago) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/new… 📸: Analia Cid