... Vladivostok meeting SALT II ALCM Backfire Helsinki Final Act Aleksandr Shcharanskiy ...

... Helsinki Final Act Aleksandr Shcharanskiy ...

... The central claim of this chapter is that Bergson’s élan vital is not a teleology, only a direction. Like the free act, creative evolution allows for determinism only retroactively. Here Jankélévitch lays out Bergson’s method of philosophical intuition, which alone both follows and comprehends...

... The conclusion proposes that even a project as capacious as this one in its imagining of work and value must delimit the field of obstructions whose embraces it advocates. Initially considered for such advocacy but finally excluded from the roster of obstructive use are two vivid phenomena...

... characterization of flesh, which emphasizes its transformations as it is distributed and shared. Flesh, in this gospel, is elemental. But this elemental vitality is intertwined with death. “Flesh” evokes the way in which life and death are embedded in material processes that act on human bodies. The final section...

... I look at utopias and their shadows and try to affirm the political life without any illusion that one can know the long future of any political act. Uncertainty always has an autobiography attached. As a young child, I had dyslexia and couldn’t immediately read or write. Perversely, these two...

..., movement, and the free act as pure and original facts that justify themselves by their mere presence, and dispels the illusory perspective of finality, disorder, and indifference that gives rise to skepticism. nothingness; creation; possibility; intuition ...

.... It also traces the history of European understandings of “corruption” from political philosophers through eighteenth and nineteenth century political reformers, only taking on its full contemporary formulation under the influence of modernization theorists in the mid-twentieth century. In the final...

... that act on human bodies. The final section of the chapter attends to the gospel’s descriptions of water, which it associates with spirit at crucial moments. Spirit and flesh flow into each other, as the gospel conveys the intertwining of the material and the spiritual. Gospel of John glory...

...Final Reflections In the fourth chapter of the section, imprisoned black activist Russell Maroon Shoatz, recalls discussions about James’s book inside prison among black radicals. “ The Black Jacobins , Education, and Redemption” describes the impact of James’s history on debates regarding...

...The Feminism of Uncertainty I look at utopias and their shadows and try to affirm the political life without any illusion that one can know the long future of any political act. Uncertainty always has an autobiography attached. As a young child, I had dyslexia and couldn’t immediately read...

...II This chapter challenges common views of narrative as externalizing interior states or representing events by demonstrating how narratives are coproduced with acts of care. It uses Walter Benjamin’s work to suggest that the labor of care and of health/communicative labor are coproduced...

..., and authority are always gendered and raced. The practice of improvised soloing in taiko is embedded in transnational circuits of gendered and racialized desire. The author addresses how, when, and why taiko players improvise; how improvisation acts out deep values and contradictions; how it is loved...

..., though they are about the same life. Nevertheless, they become the spur for her writing and offer a clue to how she finally resolves her dilemma, in her fiction. Nayantara Sahgal personal/political reveal/conceal relational autobiography This chapter examines the life writings of Nazr...

...Movements, Regimes, and Refoundations This chapter examines how grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, made sense of two civic participation initiatives linked to their city’s status as a “leftist utopia”—the World Social Forum and the Participatory Budget—during the final...

... and antithesis in perpetual relation and forestalls any final Aufhebung ) and, on the other hand, by the gap in the Symbolic inscribed in the Lacanian process of sublimation (a gap embodied by the objet petit a ), Žižek’s ridiculous sublime, Alfrey demonstrates, is comprised not of grandiose objects...

... against the Bourbon reforms clearly contributed to the outbreak of the general insurrection in 1780–81. In 1781, during the massive Indian siege of La Paz, Gallo became emotionally distraught. He rashly delivered himself to his enemies and was promptly hung in an act of insurgent justice. The pasquinade...

....” It examines the explosion of working-class militancy in France in 1936 and how the French Communist Party acted to limit this movement and its militancy. James ends by defending the need for a new Fourth International to replace the bankrupt Third International now that it is no longer a revolutionary...

... activities; for the wider role of the war’s female spies, South and North, see Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 149–94; and Lyde Cullen Sizer, “Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies,” in Catherine...

... activities; for the wider role of the war’s female spies, South and North, see Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 149–94; and Lyde Cullen Sizer, “Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies,” in Catherine...