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IntroductionNonsense—Critique for the Times

Sacks, Jeffrey; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235913

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The Translatability of ExperienceOn Fanon's Language Puzzle

Mercier, Lucie K.; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235923

Fanon considered that colonial alienation produced multiple forms of relational pathologies, many of which expressed themselves in and through blockages in communication rather than through explicit conflict. Exposing the role of language as a vector of racial violence and colonial oppression,...

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The Language(s) of Self-RepresentationToward a Postcolonial Theory of Voice

Allan, Michael; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235933

This essay tracks Karl Marx's famous line “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” as it travels from a translated epigraph in Edward Said's Orientalism to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” What follows from this minor textual detail is a broader...

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Voice and Silence in Assia Djebar and Adania Shibli

Silmi, Amirah; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235943

This essay considers the works of two Arab writers, Assia Djebar and Adania Shibli, to examine how silences in their texts are signs of both oppression and of resistance and rebellion. It seeks to show how the silences as well as the cries and incomprehensible voices of the colonized defy...

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Critical HopeCritique in the Works of Husayn Muruwwa and His Grandson Rabih Mroué

Kesrouany, Maya Issam; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235953

This article explores the theory and practice of critique in the works of the Lebanese Communist intellectual Husayn Muruwwa (1910–1987) and his grandson Rabih Mroué (b. 1967). Husayn Muruwwa, one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, reinvented...

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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

Sacks, Jeffrey; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235964

This article addresses the work of the German-language philosopher and theorist Theodor W. Adorno and the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum in order to ask after the form of the subject and the sense of life privileged in critique. I consider the form of the subject and the sense of the social...

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Sa Tahanan CollectiveOn Taking and Making Space

Reyes, Anna Bernice delos; Bigueras, Preschelle Ann; Sacks, Jeffrey

2023 Critical Times

doi:10.1215/26410478-10235974

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