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The Ghost and the Censor: Loss in Parallax 幽灵与检查者:视差中的迷失

Critical Times Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10437037

Emily Ng

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The Destruction of Loss: An Introduction 《损失的毁灭:导论

Critical Times Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10436967

B. Iqbal, Rajbir Singh Judge

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Hit the Tire 打轮胎

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10030254

R. Pithouse

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Revisitar y recrear la huelga 重温和重建罢工

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10030234

C. Vega

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What's the Use of a Strike Archive? 罢工档案有什么用?

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10030274

Mary Jirmanus Saba

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The Body is (Not) the Land 身体是(不是)土地

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10030224

Ethan Madarieta

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Revisiting and Recreating the Strike 重访和重建罢工

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10030244

C. Vega, Tara Phillips

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“The Visual Poetry of the Work”: Critique, Form, and Life in the Art of Mona Hatoum and the Language of Theodor Adorno “作品的视觉诗歌”:莫娜·哈图姆艺术中的批判、形式和生命与西奥多·阿多诺的语言

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10235964

J. Sacks

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The Language(s) of Self-Representation: Toward a Postcolonial Theory of Voice 自我再现的语言:走向后殖民的声音理论

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10235933

Michael Allan

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The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle 经验的可译性:论法农的语言困惑

Critical Times Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1215/26410478-10235923

L. Mercier

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