Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8662448
{"title":"The School of Improper Education","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8662448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8662448","url":null,"abstract":"The School of Improper Education is a long-term col lec tive learn ing pro cess initi ated in 2016 by KUNCI Study Forum & Collective. When KUNCI en vis aged the School of Improper Education, orig i nally called the School of Invisible Economies, the in ten tion was to cre ate a pro gram that would also al low us to re flect on our ex is tence as a col lec tive. The ini ti a tion of KUNCI in 1999 was part of the wave of civil so ci ety or ga ni za tions that bloomed af er thir ty-two years of liv ing un der mili tary dic ta tor ship. When we be gan to work on the idea of build ing a school, we felt that we had made some in roads through our past pro jects. At the same time, how ev er, we felt that what we had done was not suf cient. Over the course of Indonesia’s ex per iment with the pro cess of de moc ra ti za tion, we were faced with on go ing po lit i cal po lar i za tion, re li gious rad i cal i za tion, gen derand sex u al i ty-based op pres sion, and the in for mal cen sor ship of the me dia in post-1998 Reformasi Indonesia. Against this back drop, we lo cated a new po lit i cal chal lenge that re quired us as a col lective to prac tice think ing and liv ing to gether in a sus tain able way. On re flec tion, it seems more apt to re fer to the school as our life line, rather than treating it as a mere pro ject. The School of Improper Education emerged as a means to em brace the un known and pre car i ous ness, to un learn the pro duc tiv ity re gime of school ing, and to ex pand our ver nac u lar vo cab u lar ies for study ing. We per ceive the school as a means to sur vive on go ing uncertainties in the con tem po rary so cial and po lit i cal sit u a tion through the act of study ing to geth er. The school re flects the tra jec tory of our think ing about re search in ac tion and our in ten tion to learn about study ing to geth er. The School of Improper Education works by ex plor ing the his tor i cal rem nants of var i ous prac tices of study, in or der to carve out “an al ter na tive.” As the starting point for this en deav or, we experimented with four ped a gog i cal prac tices: (1) the Jacotot method (reconceptualized in Jacques","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123391747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8662400
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Beezer De Martelly, Julia Havard, Amanda Armstrong-Price, J. Kunkel, Sarah Cowan
{"title":"Excerpt from The Official Anti-Milo Toolkit","authors":"Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Beezer De Martelly, Julia Havard, Amanda Armstrong-Price, J. Kunkel, Sarah Cowan","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8662400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8662400","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The organizers of the Anti-Milo Toolkit aimed to contribute to a broader counter-movement that would make it easier for university campuses to challenge and de-platform white supremacist and fascist speakers sheltered under the auspices of “free speech.” This toolkit gathers info-tracts, syllabi, flyer templates, and other activist materials collected and widely distributed across campuses in preparation to protest Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos's 2016 “Dangerous Faggot Tour.” Yiannopoulos was slated to speak at thirteen college campuses in support of an alt-right platform founded upon the weaponization of “free speech,” xenophobia, and transphobia. In addition to providing materials for protest, the authors of the “Anti-Milo Toolkit” take critical aim at appropriation of liberal-academic vocabularies by right-wing groups and Yiannopoulos's history of outing trans and undocumented students at his events, and call for widespread action against the spread of violent rhetoric targeting marginalized communities in order to maintain the university as a space of sanctuary. Because of its accessibility via digital channels and its wide range of short and readable pieces written in a variety of styles, and because of the collective's wide network of organizing connections, the kit circulated very broadly.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131681960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8662440
Berkeley Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective University of California
{"title":"COLA, COVID, and 50/500 Years of Struggle","authors":"Berkeley Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective University of California","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8662440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8662440","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This short dispatch reflects on the recent cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) student movement at the University of California. We outline a short history of student labor activism at the University of California, Berkeley, and juxtapose it with the struggles that have come out of the Department of Ethnic Studies since 1969. We discuss the context of COLA and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the aims, goals, and development of the movement from an ethnic studies perspective.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126506988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8517759
Nuno Ramos, Marlena Gittleman
{"title":"Los desastres de la guerra/The Disasters of War","authors":"Nuno Ramos, Marlena Gittleman","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8517759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8517759","url":null,"abstract":"Venho trabalhando com a ideia de Répli ca—em formatos, gêneros e configurações os mais variados—desde o começo de meu trabalho. A “répli ca” congelada de um gesto, estampada na matéria espessa de uma pintura que pesa mais de 400 quilos; a réplica do espaço de uma galeria, 10 por cento menor do que o orig i nal, como uma enorme maquete, reproduzida e instalada na própria Galeria (As vezes, 1996); a réplica de um de bate entre Foucault e Chomsky, reencenada milimetricamente (On hu man na ture, 2019)—os exemplos seriam inúmeros, e acompanham meu trabalho, sem que eu busque por isso explicitamente, como uma de suas constantes mais fiéis. Em Lucientes (Los desastres de la guerra), toda a série Los desastres de la guerra, de Goya, é replicada em formato orig i nal, com uma única atuação sobreposta a ela: a exposição à fumaça fuliginosa de um maçarico desajustado. Com isso, um misto do pó de breu da técnica da água-for te, com que essas gravuras fo ram feitas originalmente, da fuligem da fumaça que acompanha o fogo retratado nas imagens e da memória algo destruidora que há em toda mancha esfumaçada, pousa nestes trabalhos, numa literalização, ela mesma replicante, dos elementos retratados e da técnica que os produziu. Como se sabe, todo o trabalho de Goya foi redimensionado em sua fase tardia, da “maneira negra” das pinturas às séries de gravuras “Los caprichos” e “Los desastres de la guerra,” deixando para trás qualquer resquício da poética de Corte que caracterizava seu trabalho inicial. A vi olência das invasões napoleônicas e a desilusão com seus resultados parecem estar no centro de tudo isso. Com todas as enormes diferenças, algo semelhante ocorre em diversos lugares do mundo hoje,","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132725995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8517735
A. Athanasiou
{"title":"At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do","authors":"A. Athanasiou","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8517735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8517735","url":null,"abstract":"This essay engages with the question of critical possibility—or, the possibility of critique—and, more specifically, the political temporalities that sustain critical potential in the present and for the future. The essay asks whether and how the aesthetic can serve as a resource for making sense of the question of possibility and for developing a conception of critical subjectivity. To question what critical theory might still do in the present treats critique as an experience of the im-possible, and yet as a transformative force for shifting the conditions of possibility for knowledge production. In this way, this essay seeks to address the aporetic elements in the utopian thinking of critical theory.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132008014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8517711
Leticia Sabsay
{"title":"The Political Aesthetics of Vulnerability and the Feminist Revolt","authors":"Leticia Sabsay","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8517711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8517711","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Contemporary transnational times are characterized by renewed struggles over the meaning of democracy. In this postdemocratic moment, political and cultural practices and popular mobilizations and demands have exceeded, and ultimately questioned, some of representative democracy's core conventions, from the mass feminist demonstrations and strikes, to the rise of populist politics both in Europe and the Americas. Importantly, these struggles attest to the tension between failing democratic institutions and the heightening of increasingly authoritarian and cruel forms of social precarization and exclusion. Against these murderous trends, which this article characterizes as marked by an aesthetics of cruelty, some of these struggles foreground the vulnerable character of life and the embodied dimension of politics and its affective domains. This article focuses on the social movement Ni Una Menos to examine the ways in which vulnerability has been mobilized by some contemporary feminist popular struggles, focusing on the current investment in cultural activism opposing the curtailment of bodily life along gendered, sexualized, and racialized lines. Ultimately, this intervention seeks to ponder the emancipatory potential of a political aesthetics that weaves vulnerability into the gendering of democratic claims.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124529374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8517719
Sergio Delgado Moya
{"title":"An Archive of Violence","authors":"Sergio Delgado Moya","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8517719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8517719","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay makes the case for sensationalism as an archive of violence. It traces the ways in which the Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals draws from the sensationalist tabloid Alarma! in the making of his film Las Poquianchis (1976), a film version of the story of human trafficking that led the tabloid to popularity. The visuality of sensationalism works mostly in the service of power: it keeps certain kinds of violence both out of sight and overexposed. Cazals and other artists and writers who draw materials from sensationalism complicate this visuality and counter it, but they do so by staying close to the kind of obscenity characteristic of sensationalism. The last segment of the essay revisits Elaine Scarry's seminal analysis of the relationship between language and pain. It offers a frame of interpretation for the most disturbing moments in sensationalism and in Cazals's film: moments defined by the screening of gruesome violence, traumatic bodily injury, violence by sexual means, and death.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115819600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8189881
Hala Halim
{"title":"Translating Solidarity","authors":"Hala Halim","doi":"10.1215/26410478-8189881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8189881","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This interview with veteran Egyptian translator and interpreter Nehad Salem is preceded by an introduction that situates her biography and formation in relation to the key, interconnected international/internationalist forums in which her career unfolded. A dedicated Third Worldist, Salem participated in crucial events of the liberation period, including the resistance in Port Said during the Suez War, and taught in Algeria in the wake of decolonization. Spotlighting her work in institutions such as the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization, the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association, and UNESCO, the interview addresses issues of gender and agency in relation to the translator/interpreter, and the poetics and politics of literary translation. The interview traces details about the literary history of the liberation period through Salem's work in the journal Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings, edited by, among others, the Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat, and her translations of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and the Egyptian poet Salah Jahin.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123773806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-7862517
David Theo Goldberg
{"title":"Coding Time","authors":"David Theo Goldberg","doi":"10.1215/26410478-7862517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7862517","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyzes the various ways algorithmic logic structures, streamlines, and delimits the conception of time and memory; orders the logics of social arrangement; and delimits the political. The author considers the ways in which algorithms extend racial discrimination, rendering it less visible, less discernible, and so more difficult to address. He briefly formulates a notion of crypto-value embedded within algorithmic self-conception and elaborates an algorithmic ontology. The latter is distinguished from the contemporary understanding of the post-human. The essay concludes with a reflection on a politics of street encounter as a counter to prevailing algorithmic constraints on the political. “Coding time” accordingly concerns the coding of time, the conception of time embedded in coding, the sociality and value that coding produces, and the implications for being and being human that the time of coding is manifesting.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131535315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical TimesPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/26410478-7862541
M. Hirsch
{"title":"Stateless Memory","authors":"M. Hirsch","doi":"10.1215/26410478-7862541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7862541","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Responding to current conditions of statelessness by way of Hannah Arendt's mid- twentieth century reflections, this article proposes the aesthetic encounter as a practice of alternative, counter-national community and belonging. Artistic works exploring the vulnerabilities and the vicissitudes of statelessness by Mirta Kupferminc and Wangechi Mutu inspire a definition of stateless memory as a suspension or hiatus in time and space. Stateless memory, the article suggests, can mobilize the memory of painful pasts in a different time frame than the progression toward preordained futures that often seem inevitable in the space-time of the nation-state and the catastrophes it causes and suffers.","PeriodicalId":432097,"journal":{"name":"Critical Times","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122751746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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