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"Neoliberalism has other effects in regions where, in addition to surplus populations, there are those which I would call 'waste,' and this produces effects other than resurgent fascist tendencies."
An Exchange between Daniel Loick and Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
An Exchange between Daniel Loick and Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Neoliberalism has other effects in regions where, in addition to surplus populations, there are those which I would call 'waste,' and this produces effects other than resurgent fascist tendencies."
An Exchange between Daniel Loick and Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
An Exchange between Daniel Loick and Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
"By paying closer attention to the hatred of surplus populations in contemporary global fascisms, we can see another dimension of authoritarian domination: not just objectification—disposing the other—but also abjection, disposing of the other."
An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"By paying closer attention to the hatred of surplus populations in contemporary global fascisms, we can see another dimension of authoritarian domination: not just objectification—disposing the other—but also abjection, disposing of the other."
An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
"The paradox of the figure of the Palestinian... arises because the same Palestinian who, on the one hand, appears as a violent existential threat, on the other appears as a psychic but no less existential threat—this time as a figure who perhaps replicates your own past history."
Simona Sawhney
Simona Sawhney
Avoiding Gaza: An Open Letter - Critical Times
I am taking the liberty of writing an open letter to citizens of Israel, especially those of you who consider Israel a homeland for Jewish people. Though for a long time this letter has been on my min...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"The paradox of the figure of the Palestinian... arises because the same Palestinian who, on the one hand, appears as a violent existential threat, on the other appears as a psychic but no less existential threat—this time as a figure who perhaps replicates your own past history."
Simona Sawhney
Simona Sawhney
"If, like colonialism, fascism lives its most virulent afterlife today in the admiration of those it most despised, our collective task—yours as well as ours—would be to resist and challenge such admiration, with all the strength we can muster."
Simona Sawhney, "Avoiding Gaza: An Open Letter"
Simona Sawhney, "Avoiding Gaza: An Open Letter"
October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"If, like colonialism, fascism lives its most virulent afterlife today in the admiration of those it most despised, our collective task—yours as well as ours—would be to resist and challenge such admiration, with all the strength we can muster."
Simona Sawhney, "Avoiding Gaza: An Open Letter"
Simona Sawhney, "Avoiding Gaza: An Open Letter"
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"[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...
From the Critical Times archive, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
June 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"[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...
From the Critical Times archive, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
"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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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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September 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"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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Maria José de Abreu
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"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"
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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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September 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"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...
Maria José de Abreu, "On the Disappearance of Fireflies"
Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/09/15/o...
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"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"
"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics."
-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."
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-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."
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August 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"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"
"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...
-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."
Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/t...
August 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"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...
-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."
Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/t...
"[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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Adil Hasan Khan on India's citizenship crisis: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"[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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Adil Hasan Khan on India's citizenship crisis: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
"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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Ajay Skaria on Gaza and academic freedom: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
July 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Ajay Skaria on Gaza and academic freedom: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
"[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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
July 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"[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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
"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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Hengameh Ziai on Wittgenstein, Talal Asad, and nonsense: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
July 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"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...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, Hengameh Ziai on Wittgenstein, Talal Asad, and nonsense: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
From the latest issue of Critical Times: @makdisi.bsky.social, "Beyond the Palestine Exception."
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July 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
From the latest issue of Critical Times: @makdisi.bsky.social, "Beyond the Palestine Exception."
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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
June 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
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...
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...
June 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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...
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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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:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
Volume 8 Issue 1 | Critical Times | Duke University Press
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June 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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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,
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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,
"[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...
From the Critical Times archive, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
June 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"[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...
From the Critical Times archive, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
"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...
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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June 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"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...
NEW from Enzo Traverso for "In the Midst," the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/06/09/f...
"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...
NEW from Ajay Skaria for "In the Midst," the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/06/06/t...
June 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"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...
NEW from Ajay Skaria for "In the Midst," the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/06/06/t...
"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
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
June 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"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
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
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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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June 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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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
"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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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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June 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
"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...
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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May 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"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...
NEW from Debaditya Bhattacharya
ctjournal.org/2025/05/29/w...