Augusto Jobim do Amaral is a political theorist and researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. His areas of concentration are criminal justice systems, violence, crime, punitive culture, and public safety as well as ethics, political philosophy… Continue Reading
Primary Reading Reading Capital by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière (1965) Focus on these 3 extracts from Reading Capital Louis Althusser on “Symptomatic reading,” from Reading Capital, Part One, pages 9-28. Louis Althusser on “Historical… Continue Reading
Maria Inês Marcondes de Souza is a professor and the Director of the Education Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio, or PUC-Rio University. She is also the Brazilian Representative of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT)… Continue Reading
Antonio Pele is a professor at the Law School of PUC-Rio University and a critical theorist. He has previously taught at the Carlos III university of Madrid and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago at the “Pozen Family Center… Continue Reading
Cecilia Thumim Boal is a psychoanalyst, Theatre Director and Actress. In 1966, along with Augusto Boal, she participated in the Arena Theatre in São-Paulo, and engaged in performances across Brazil, Latin-America and Europe. In 1982 she received her psychology PhD at… Continue Reading
Alessandra Vannucci is a Theater Director and a professor at the Theatre Directing Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She also coordinates the Laboratory on Aesthetics and Politics (LEP) and was previously professor here at PUC-Rio University. In… Continue Reading
By Sharon Liu* The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought kicked off the first seminar of Critique 13/13 with Professor Amy Allen, in a discussion about the current state of critical theory and its usefulness today. The questions at the… Continue Reading
By Fakhruddin Valika Critique 13/13 keeps returning to the best ways to read and use a text. On the one hand, every author is owed some basic fidelity and attention—the reader’s honest engagement with the text on its own terms.… Continue Reading
Por Antonio Pele Translated by Débora Sol Freire (PUC-Rio) Repensar a Pedagogia do Oprimido (PO) de Paulo Freire dentro de uma perspectiva teórica crítica é tanto desafiador quanto produtivo. É desafiador na medida em que questiona uma interpretação potencialmente estática… Continue Reading
By Frank S. Hong* Critical theory can be read as an extended dialogue about the place of thinking in an irrational, disenchanted, and profoundly unjust world—and in Critique 2/13, Professors Axel Honneth and Bernard Harcourt pursued this debate by… Continue Reading