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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 11

"[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, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · 12d

"How, in a moment when the left seems to have lost its political grammars and political imagination, can it be sure that it is not adopting the very language of antagonism against the right that the right itself brought into being?"

Maria José de Abreu

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On the Disappearance of Fireflies - Critical Times

In his Scritti corsari (Corsair Writings, 1973-75), Pier Paolo Pasolini made claims that shocked many of his interlocutors in Italy and elsewhere. His critique of the idea of progress would certainly ...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · 23d

"Pasolini's 'Scritti corsari' warn of this odd dance between opposites, between the old and the new worlds, where the opposite of fascism is not always anti-fascism..."

Maria José de Abreu, "On the Disappearance of Fireflies"

Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/09/15/o...

On the Disappearance of Fireflies - Critical Times

In his Scritti corsari (Corsair Writings, 1973-75), Pier Paolo Pasolini made claims that shocked many of his interlocutors in Italy and elsewhere. His critique of the idea of progress would certainly ...

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · Aug 23

"And yet, it is precisely the days before—the days that matter most—that we, the other inhabitants of this earth who stand with Gaza, are no longer able to support augment or touch. Our collective political protest in many parts of this earth has waned. Not because we don’t care but because we fail"

Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics."
-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."

Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/t...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics."
-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."

Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/t...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Aug 4

"[C]onducting authority as unbounded has brought into terminal crisis the operation of the fundamental status attached to this authority—that is, of a citizen."

From the latest issue of Critical Times, Adil Hasan Khan on India's citizenship crisis: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jul 28

"The semantic power of academic freedom is all the more intense because it is inseparable from another even more charged principle: equality."

From the latest issue of Critical Times, Ajay Skaria on Gaza and academic freedom: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jul 22

"[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, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jul 15

"What happens to religion in the Philosophical Investigations? Is it gone, or is it everywhere?"

From the latest issue of Critical Times, Hengameh Ziai on Wittgenstein, Talal Asad, and nonsense: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jul 1

From the latest issue of Critical Times: @makdisi.bsky.social, "Beyond the Palestine Exception."

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

Cover of Critical Times, Vol. 8, Issue 1, April 2025. Features a red line drawing on white background: an owl with outstretched wings flies above an old-fashioned alarm clock showing 2:00. To the right is a partial outline of a robed figure. A green and gray band at the bottom reads “8:1 April 2023” and “CRITICAL TIMES Interventions in Global Critical Theory.”

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 23

We will be highlighting individual articles from the issue over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out. As always, all Critical Times article are available to everyone through open access.

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 23

Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!

Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social

All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Jun 23

New issue of @criticaltimes1.bsky.social !

including:

@makdisi.bsky.social:
Beyond the Palestine Exception

Ajay Skaria:
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom

@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social:
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?

and more, open access at:

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Volume 8 Issue 1 | Critical Times | Duke University Press

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

In my article, “Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?” @criticaltimes1.bsky.social , I interrogate how the category of the terrorist is constructed and deployed to expose the moral hierarchies of grief,

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 11

"[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, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here:
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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 9

"Although neoliberalism and post-fascism are not synonymous, they are now precarious allies."

NEW from Enzo Traverso for "In the Midst," the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/06/09/f...

Fascism: Thinking the Present with History - Critical Times

Reflections on Authoritarian Times What is fascism? A new wave of authoritarian governments on a global scale has relaunched this debate, but this word that spontaneously rises when we think of Donal...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 7

"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/t...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 3

Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...

Authoritarianism Archives - Critical Times

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."

NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...

📸: Analia Cid

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · Jun 3

Two more contributions on authoritarianism to the "In the Midst" blog facilitated by @criticaltimes1.bsky.social, one by our project member Debaditya Bhattacharya on India and Kashmir, one by Adriana Zaharijević on Serbia:
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In the Midst | Blog - Critical Times

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our colleague Debaditya Bhattacharya has written an insightful piece on the articulation of authoritarianism in India, examining the context and consequences of the recent acts of war

Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · May 31

"In the custodial state...the citizen enters the scene in a mode of resignation–a way of being held in perpetual custody–as the only guarantee of protection both from state power and by it."

NEW from Debaditya Bhattacharya

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War, Hate, and Custody: The Kashmir “Problem” and the Indian “Solution” - Critical Times

Reflections on Authoritarian Times On May 10, 2025, after four terrifying days of shelling and missile and drone attacks along the northern and western border states between India and Pakistan, a cea...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · May 31

Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...

Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · May 31

"In the custodial state...the citizen enters the scene in a mode of resignation–a way of being held in perpetual custody–as the only guarantee of protection both from state power and by it."

NEW from Debaditya Bhattacharya

ctjournal.org/2025/05/29/w...

War, Hate, and Custody: The Kashmir “Problem” and the Indian “Solution” - Critical Times

Reflections on Authoritarian Times On May 10, 2025, after four terrifying days of shelling and missile and drone attacks along the northern and western border states between India and Pakistan, a cea...

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