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... The introduction explores the central argument of the book—why the modern sense of the “uncanny” is distinct from the fear evoked by precolonial ghosts—and proposes that such distinction be understood in the context of newly emergent capitalist social relations. colonial science...

... This introduction argues that the sensational mode is uniquely revealing of the transformation of quotidian experience and public life under capitalist modernity, particularly in Latin American contexts, where modernization has exacerbated profound social divides. Highlighting the role...

... of multiple times that has forced societies like Japan as part of capitalist modernization to resort to forms of synchronization so that older practices can function alongside capitalism avoid the serious consequences of political and economic collision can be avoided. contemporary noncontemporaneity...

... in the metropole, revolution named the threat of a liberalism taken too far. In the long dawn of capitalist modernity, race became generalized as a biopolitical technology promising to guarantee bourgeois white freedom by waging war against those whose inner lives threaten that liberal freedom: violent criminals...

... movements demanded the provision of public services, as the capitalist modernization of the countryside propelled the accumulation of wage-insecure workers in the city and the emergence of shantytowns. The “civic strikes” that rocked Barrancabermeja in the 1970s had much in common with earlier labor strikes...

... and expression in the age of China’s entry into global capitalism. They also analyze the interconnections among sexualized labor, the discontents of capitalist modernity, and queer resistance to identity politics. They theorize non-normative gender and sexualities’ liberating potential for capitalism, while...

... between the two eras. It argues that they both constitute ruptures in the evolution of capitalist lifeworlds and the politicocultural ideologies that shaped them. Information technology is to this revolution what new sources of energy were to the early industrial capitalist revolution. The two periods...

... to be the architect of her own destiny, only to succumb to the legacy of her past as she faces the dehumanization effects of capitalist modernity. Xiao Sa East Asian economic miracle peripheral realism reproductive futurism erotohistoriography ...

... This chapter suggests that decolonization has to be understood in terms of its temporal structure and argues that its teleological time has given way to reassertions of multiple precolonial temporalities because of the failure of the promises of decolonization in postcolonial capitalist...

... Similar to other Latin American countries, television in Cuba was used to promote mass consumption and to incorporate the country into U.S. and global market economies. However, in Cuba, the medium was the product of much more than capitalist-market imperatives. As the introduction explains...

... of efficiency in the early twentieth century and the ties that bound it to the burning questions of the day about American democracy, class and social mobility, the impact of industrialization, and the coming of a new and capitalist order. Medical efficiency is introduced as both a generative new lens...

... customs—a project designed to transform the hearts and minds of the Okinawan people in preparation for the establishment of capitalist relations of production in the prefecture—and Okinawa’s female producer-merchants. Prominent local intellectual Ōta Chōfu and others urged the Okinawan people to change...

... The chapter addresses the direct link between violence and the discourse of cure—a link based on the condemnation of disabled women for failing to fulfill gender and sexual expectations in the making of the normality-centered, modern capitalist nation-state. The movement to address the criminal...

... The move from the Eiffel Tower to the Ferris wheel monumentalizes not only the shift of modernity from Europe to America, but also the shift away from a capitalist system based purely on utility. The Ferris wheel shows how markets capture and calculate fun. While it failed to achieve the iconic...

... The move from the Eiffel Tower to the Ferris wheel monumentalizes not only the shift of modernity from Europe to America, but also the shift away from a capitalist system based purely on utility. The Ferris wheel shows how markets capture and calculate fun. While it failed to achieve the iconic status...

... with specific consumer goods, and in front of an audience and bright lights. Despite the appearance of conspicuous consumption in the photographs, the chapter demonstrates that a visual economy, a system of value and status centered on visibility and light, sometimes leads to the negation of capitalist...