"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

"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

"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

"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"

"[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...

"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 ctjournal.org/2025/09/15/o...

"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...

"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...

"[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...

"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...

"[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...

"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: @makdisi.bsky.social, "Beyond the Palestine Exception." read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

"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

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: ctjournal.org/in-the-midst...

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...

"The popular uprising in Serbia today is a direct response to this notion that anything—human life, the earth, justice, values—is up for grabs." NEW from Adriana Zaharijević, "Authoritarian Dissolutions of Humanity" ctjournal.org/2025/05/27/a...

"Can we build a potent left statism in conjunction with decentralized democratic projects? An anti-Leninist Leninism perhaps?" NEW from Wendy Brown: "After Liberal Democracy," an essay published on the Critical Times blog. ctjournal.org/2025/05/15/a...

Interesting analysis by Wendy Brown. I think too many US commentators who tend to reflexively associate "conservatism" with "anti-statism" have been taken by surprise by the aggressively illiberal form of statism embodied by Trumpism. ctjournal.org/2025/05/15/a...

Great by Wendy Brown! ctjournal.org/2025/05/15/a...