The dossier aims to promote and sustain dialogue between different textual, aesthetic and academic resources related to the various geographical, political and epistemological locations of Critical Theory.

In recent decades the question of “the critical” ─ canonically installed in the 20th century by Max Horkheimer in Traditional Theory and Critical Theory (1937) ─ has undergone mutations , surveys and new configurations in different geocultural areas. Directly or indirectly, the initial concerns of Critical Theory have been crossed by displacements and surveys that modify its original meaning and its classic directions: the anti-colonial critiques of the second half of the 20th century, Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation, Latin American cultural criticism of the 1980s and 1990s, postcolonial theory, the Latin American decolonial turn, critical feminisms, Antonio Negri's theory of constituent power, and Nancy Fraser's anti-capitalism, just to name a few.

This pluralization and decentering of Critical Theory accounts for updates, folds and reformulations that deepen conjectures about narratives and conventional representations of what is understood by "critical ”. Some of the questions that guide the contributions to which this issue calls are: what are the main categories of Critical Theory that have spread in recent decades? Is it possible to think of a survey of Critical Theory in Latin America? What policies does Critical Theory enable in its classic and/or current formulations? What are the limits and possibilities of Critical Theory? How is Critical Theory updated?