... This chapter confronts us with a nearly unbearable thought: that politics as such, let alone leftist political activism and revolutionary transformation, is so thoroughly futile and farcical that a certain posture of acceptance is all that is left to us. Analyzing Pasolini’s film Salò...

...Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance ...

... policy expertise prison vaccine acceptability Portugal ...

... Richard Rorty American exceptionalism collective violence acceptable loss displacement of violence ...

... In his introductory remarks upon accepting the presidency of Duke University in 2003, Richard Brodhead describes his admiration for Duke, which convinced him to leave Yale, where he had had a 32-year career. Yale University presidency 2003 ...

... This chapter argues that many borderland “Americans” use negative sexual stereotypes to suppress the dependence of white middle-class prosperity on the intimate presence of Mexicans. It suggests certain acceptable forms of contact coexist with polarizing domination and paranoia, leaving...

... source of new insights and connections. As such, it urges ethnographers to accept and respond with generosity and openness to the uncertainty that inevitably attends their research and writing. uncertainty ethnography poetry gifts ...

... to explain the flaws in the justice system, especially those related to the application of the drug laws that had led to a dramatic increase of the incarcerated population. Her analysis later informed changes in legislation and judicial illicit drug control. Her study on vaccine acceptability, which...

... The conclusion returns to issues of temporality, and thus proper historicity, via a piece of the Banderia/Andrade correspondence and a statement from Dandinha, both of which illustrate an acceptance of noninterpretation or a wallowing in the artifactuality of data. This acceptance suggests...

... speculates about the transformation from the practice of African religions to the acceptance of Christianity among early generations of African Americans. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye Leesburg Georgia fishing African spirituality ...

... in this chapter, mostly women, accepted that obligation in a manner that led them, at times, to become animal. The chapter asks what it means for humans to “become animal” and how this process represents an indifference to the species boundaries that compel and justify violence. sight affect interspecies...

... and interested to hear what they had to say, but couldn’t quite seem to accept it. The chapter ends with Rosemarie’s memory of seeing a kind of aura around Martin Luther King Jr. Mennonite Church Cleveland Mississippi “advance team” work Martin Luther King Jr. ...

... the irreversible order of life and is thus, momentarily, able to overcome the opposition between a qualitative and concrete instinct and a quantifying, hypothetical and indifferent intellect. He proceeds to claim that, for Bergson, real organisms result from a compromise with matter that life has to accept...

... This chapter is a critical reconstruction of Heidegger’s theory of world and its ontological connection to temporality and transcendence. It elaborates on his rejection of widely accepted understandings of the world as objective presence, as the sphere created by intercourse among subjects...