Commemorating the 150th issue of New German Critique and its fifty years of publication, contributors to this special issue reflect on new potential for critical thought, offering an array of perspectives from both established and emerging scholars on how the journal reimagines the objects, purposes, and parameters of its critical orbit. Topics include efforts to engage research and writing by immigrant and immigrant-adjacent scholars of German Studies; the continuing need for critical theory as a means of counteracting the structural racism of the present and the assumption that white supremacy is a thing of the past; the importance of Black German, Black European, and Asian German Studies; the way critical discourse is essential for a trenchant form of ecocritical critique; and the need for radical models in critical media studies and innovative digital archive projects.
Contributors: Erik Born, Kristin Dickinson, Fatima El-Tayeb, Özkan Ezli, Jennifer Fay, Cristina Florea, Katja Garloff, Yuliya Komska, Olivia Landry, B. Venkat Mani, Kalani Michell, Leila Mukhida, Jessica Nitsche, Jessica Ruffin, Quinn Slobodian, Chenxi Tang, Enzo Traverso, Mathura Umachandran, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
