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Vol 9: 1-2 of Critical Times is out now!
This double special issue, "Crisis Climate Politics," is guest edited by Wendy Brown and Timothy Mitchell.
All articles freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
"If It Can Happen at The New School ..." by Alice Crary
Now available on our website, In the Midst:
ctjournal.org/2026/10/29/if-…
"Iran, Neoliberalism, Nihilism, and the Global Order: A Conversation with Wendy Brown" by Mohammad Hadi
Now available on our website, In the Midst:
ctjournal.org/2026/09/22/ira…
From our archive: A cluster of essays on the theme of "Imprisoning Politics"
Read the Introduction to the special section here:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new special issue, "The Great EconoCon: Climate Crisis and the Misconception of Growth" by Timothy Mitchell
Available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
"The administration’s desire to abolish gender-affirming care (and indeed, trans existence) was present before any scientific reason was sought for it, and it will remain even if the now-alleged scientific basis for it crumbles."
Jaeyoon Park, "Learning from Trump's Failure"
"Learning from Trump’s Failure: Science and the Ethics of Gender-Affirming Care" by Jaeyoon Park now available on our website:
ctjournal.org/2026/07/10/lea…
From our new special issue, "The Rise and Fall of a Caribbean Refinery: History Churning in the Wake of the American Empire of Oil" by David Bond
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new special issue, "Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air" by Heather Davis
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
Critical Times retweeted
The Weekly Read is "Reparative Democracy" by Wendy Brown. The article is featured in Climate Crisis Politics, a special double-issue of the open access journal @Critical_Times_
Read it for free: buff.ly/E4tofly
ALT A person with a flowing headscarf walks across a vast, cracked, dry desert under a clear blue sky.
From our new special issue, "Comparative Ethnographies of Crooked Beasts: An Uncertain Method for the Climate Crisis" by Nayanika Mathur @NayanikaM
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new special issue, "Counting Carbon While the Planet Burns: Accounting and Accountability in Climate Crisis Politics" by Julia Dehm @juliadehm
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new special issue: "The New Fable of the Bees; or, Private Virtues, Public Detriments" by Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt
Available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new special issue, "Reparative Democracy" by Wendy Brown.
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new special issue: "Critical Climate Materialism: Residual Reification and Reparative Critique" by Andreas Folkers
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new issue: "Thinking with Brecht: Intrusion as Method in Noor Abed's Films" by Samira Makki
Available through open access here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
From our new issue: "Radicalizing 'Bandung' in Cairo: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the Renewal of Anticolonial Marxism" by Thiti Jamkajornkeiat.
Available through open access here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
"If the 'education of desire' has a progressive political content, it must involve the discovery and exploration of new forms of cooperation." @whywinter
From our new issue: "Does the Left Need New Imaginaries?: Hope, the Education of Desire, and the Betrayal of Utopia" by @whywinter
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
Critical Times retweeted
I wrote this piece a few years to try to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s finally out now and is meant to give a sense of what and why it is happening.
Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War read.dukeupress.edu/critical…