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... Berlant's day-to-day experiences in diary-like format albeit with the characteristic insights and turns of phrase that illuminate the ways that affect shapes encounters and episodes within and beyond the ordinary. frankness life/death poison alter worlds writing ...

... The interlude “Songify Your Life” conjures the querulously heartbreaking crossroads of race, sexuality, and voice-alteration technologies through one specific example that endures as the “real-world” doppelgänger of several of the pieces included in Feenin. Auto-Tune Auto-Tune the News...

... that this leads to a conception of the world as a nontotalizable whole or text in general and an understanding of the opening of the world by the coming of the other as the imperative to act. It explores the insights that narrative can give us into the opening of worlds and concludes with an account of the world...

... to decenter the West in accounts of queer worlds especially in the Global South. Even with new approaches to location, transnational queer anthropology continues to depend on alterity. transnational culture globalization alterity ...

... that narrative can give us into the opening of worlds and concludes with an account of the world as [1]having a “literary” structure. Derrida the inhuman alterity general text the messianic literature gift of time narrative ...

... This chapter follows the media of freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams. From Havana and later Beijing, the Williamses produced media that connected political developments in China and Vietnam. This chapter explores the impact of discourses and representations of Third World anti-colonial...

... Chapter 2 examines how the more-than-human world shaped the spatial possibilities for aspiring rulers following a key turning point in the city's history: the invasion of highland monarch Radama I's military troops in 1824. The new colonial order they imposed radically altered the spatial...

... Electricity is a powerful enabling technology. It is also a social and cultural force of unparalleled proportions that has forever altered the landscape of daily life around the world. Certainly, electricity produced bright lights in big cities; it was the visual language of the modern urban...

... explores the struggles at stake in the innovation of different evacuation vehicles and technologies that would alter the geo-rhythms of war. The innovations in horse-driven ambulances, motor ambulances, and ambulance trains are explored as battlefields were reconfigured to enable the wounded to be brought...

.... This entails a different political imaginary and a mode of critical thought that is waged against ongoing forms of repression encountered in the social world beyond the gallery and the museum. This fundamentally alters the aesthetic claims of engaged art, requiring an analysis that is sensitive to the scalar...

... After World War II, successive Nigerian constitutions brought increasing degrees of internal self-rule. Emirate governance gradually lost direct administrative authority to other institutions. The personnel of the native authorities were eclipsed by officials of the secular state. At the same...

...’ is not a given precedent, but that comer and chupar evoke different worlds, populated by different entities (bodies, fruits), and colored by different pleasures. One might say that the ontologies involved are different, but that is not quite strong enough. For one, the relevant alterities also include activities...

... As an urban portrait, Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice describes the city’s unique forma urbis as it celebrates Venice and its architectural monuments. The composite bird’s-eye view permits more of the city to be seen, and visual enhancements and optical alterations enliven and enrich...

... Derrida the inhuman alterity general text the messianic literature gift of time narrative ...

... departs from twentieth-century culture concepts, it highlights ethnographic explorations of the connection of queer life to territory and geopolitics and evaluates attempts to decenter the West in accounts of queer worlds especially in the Global South. Even with new approaches to location, transnational...

..., and private estates throughout the world. Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View reveals much about Venice at the turn of the sixteenth century; however, by its nature as a bird’s-eye view, it also conceals some essential aspects of the city. One of these is purely visual: for anybody viewing Venice at sea level...

... The alteration of materials and their consequent effects is a defining feature of our transformed planet. Attending to the uncanny and unexpected ways in which alcohol mediates relations between people and elephants, this chapter develops a material politics of a Plantationocene. Going beyond...