By Nikita Lamba* In Critique 13/13 we have been investigating how we can use critical theory in our current moment. When we posed the question as a collective last year, we were thinking of a present colored by political upheaval,… Continue Reading
By Maximilian Ringleb* Two decades after the publication of his existentialist masterpiece Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre returned to contemporary philosophical thought with the publication of Critique of Dialectic Reason in 1960. Having previously proposed “the most radical view of… Continue Reading
By TJ Thompson Projects in critical theory often fall into two main camps: the substantive and the methodological. For example, Gender Trouble, despite its methodological innovation, is a text that at its core builds a substantive claim about the nature… Continue Reading
By Frank S. Hong* “Imagine that the U.S. is preparing for the outbreak of an unusual Asian disease, which is expected to kill 600 people. Two alternative programs to combat the disease have been proposed. Assume that the exact… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Audre Lorde. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. Penguin Modern, 2018. Audre Lorde. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. New York: Crossing Press, 1982. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Can the Subaltern Speak?… Continue Reading
Noreen Khawaja is an associate professor of religious studies at Yale University. She specializes in 19th and 20th century European intellectual history, and particularly on the shifting status of religious ideas and norms in late modernity. Her research examines the… Continue Reading
Jesús R. Velasco is a professor in the Department of Latin American & Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at a Columbia University. He teaches Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Columbia from the vantage point… Continue Reading