{"id":33,"date":"2019-08-30T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2020-05-17T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:55:22","slug":"13-13-rethinking-critical-theory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/13-13-rethinking-critical-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"13\/13 | W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this session of Critique 13\/13 was\u00a0suspended<\/a>. Please read the final introduction<\/a> and epilogue<\/a> to the Critique 13\/13 series.<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Professors\u00a0Brandon Terry<\/a>\u00a0and Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n

read and discuss<\/h2>\n

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil <\/em>by W.E.B. Du Bois<\/h2>\n

at Columbia University<\/h2>\n

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/del><\/h2>\n

6:15 \u2013 8:45 pm<\/del><\/h2>\n

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The COVID-19 pandemic hit us in New York City like a Mack truck. Only a few days earlier, we were packing ourselves into Buell Hall, assembling over a hundred guests into that narrow space, cheek-to-cheek, to discuss Hannah Arendt<\/a>, then traveling to Yale to meet even more colleagues to dialogue and break bread over Sartre\u2019s Critique of Dialectical Reason<\/em><\/a>. A few days later, we were isolating and confining ourselves, in solitary, under stay-at-home orders to cease all physical contact.<\/p>\n

Many of us took on new roles and invented new ways of trying to be helpful and assist others in need<\/a>. Some of us fell ill and struggled through the pain and fever. Others lost friends or family to the virus and had to suffer alone, almost in silence. The fear of contaminating others\u2014especially the most vulnerable, the elderly, the incarcerated, those at risk\u2014prevented many of us from volunteering in the ways we had known before and forced us to become creative.<\/p>\n

The pandemic quickly reaffirmed everything we know about our society and its inequalities, injustices, and failures. It confirmed everything we suspected about precarity and the lack of universal health care, about who is truly vulnerable in our society, about the hidden interests of our leaders. We knew all that. The pandemic just confirmed it\u2014as the Great Recession of 2008 had years before.<\/p>\n

The pandemic also forced us to confront what we had been doing before. Our calendars wiped clean, many of us had to reckon with our previous engagements and an entirely new way of being. Forced to stay inside, in isolation, we had no choice but to reflect on what we would have done with our time\u2014and what meaning it all had.<\/p>\n

For many of us, the experience was disorienting. In many ways, it destabilized us. In some ways, it helped us see more clearly. Please join us in critically reflecting on these times. We have posted final essays to Critique 13\/13, listed on the top right of this page. We invite you to think with us through this time of pandemic and confinement.<\/p>\n

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[Read full Introduction here<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a9 Bernard E. Harcourt.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this session of Critique 13\/13 was\u00a0suspended. Please read the final introduction and epilogue to the Critique 13\/13 series. Professors\u00a0Brandon Terry\u00a0and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}