Crisis Theory

This special issue covers the challenges of theorizing the present through the notion of crisis. Analyzing different incidents of contemporary political upheaval to examine the various temporal forms constitutive of the present, the authors argue that temporalities of crisis must be understood not simply as punctual events but as longer and more complex durational rhythms exemplified by ongoing racial and colonial histories.

Contributors: Augusto Jobim do Amaral, Eugene Brennan, Deborah Cowen, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Davide Gallo Lassere, Benjamin Noys, Rodrigo Nunes, Sara Salem, AbdouMaliq Simone, Jean Tible, Alberto Toscano