... The second chapter takes a close look at the construction of a distinctive working-class cult around Benito Juárez and penny press efforts to turn the controversy over Francisco Bulnes’s critical biography of the liberal hero into a belated martyrdom which sanctified the former president (who...

... real obstruction: von Trier’s obduracy, his own belated acceptance of which moves the film into a more provocative and challenging register. That register is one whose examination invites a further theorization of subjectivity after poststructuralisms and the (non)contemporaneity of the contemporary...

... Italy, a site of high culture from the Renaissance on, suddenly found itself at once the center of, yet displaced by, a set of global relationships that textured everyday life in a singular way. That is, everyday life was caught up in the double spiral of uneven development: both belated...

... . But spectacular appearances are only ever part of our collective history. Our contemporary cultural landscape might be described as the belated and deferred legacy of the years of “permanent conflictuality” (1972–1977), the moment that began the present epoch in a crucible of restructuring that came to be known...

... was to respond to Fontana and to affirm disciplinary yet deskilled, repetitive, value-productive labor as the framework for art making. Manzoni’s work indexes Italy’s economic-historical entwinement at the intersection of a belated full capitalism and a prefigurative restructuring, later associated...