...Call to Theory/Call to Action ...

...“You Can Call Me Artist, You Can Call Me IDOL!”<subtitle>Contexts, Genealogies, and Aesthetics of Performance</subtitle> This short summary describes the contents of the chapters in this section of the book, which include the musical, dance, and visual aesthetics that have shaped BTS’s...

...The Feline Call to Freedom<subtitle>Slavery and Revolution in an Age of Empire, 1500–1800</subtitle> Divine Lynxes: When the Middle Ages ended with the bubonic plague pandemic and the first iterations of wage labor began and merchant capital began to take hold, cats as symbols of economic...

... In the introduction, I set up the basic idea of misinterpellation, beginning with Franz Kafka’s parable about Abraham wherein the call put out to the famous Abraham was also heard by many other unintended people (who also happened to be called Abraham). One of the latter, the least desirable...

...Subjects of the Call In chapter 1, I look at Louis Althusser’s theory of interpellation, focusing on the ways that he allows for its failure. For example, he says “nine times out of ten” that interpellation targets the person it was “really” meant for. My question here is what about the one...