... pure forms of intuition categories of understanding schema of imagination ideas of Reason categorical imperative purposiveness ...

... Lecture 9, “Kant and Critique,” explicates Immanuel Kant’s practice of critical—transcendental—critique by a closer examination of Critique of Pure Reason and brief excursions into Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment. pure forms of intuition categories of understanding...

.... They read the past from the vantage point of five, ten, or even twenty years after the moment of capture. Indigenous slaves responded to these charges by expressing their understandings of these legal categories in relation to their own versions of the past. cannibalism legal narratives indio just...

... The introduction offers a brief history and context of South Africa to understand colonial apartheid forms of racialization and the enduring impact of the racial hierarchy in South Africa. It examines how the category “Indian” emerges and untangles the merchant middleman class from the indenture...

... A critical first step in denaturalizing the category of voice entails understanding the common and naturalized meanings “voice” has in English, and by extension, in the Euro-Western context. While the sonorous and material aspects of voice typically serve as the constitutive outside when “voice...

.... As an empirical method of understanding the geophysical dimensions of colonialism and its afterlives, how the surfaces of the white supremacy of matter are maintained, practiced, and imagined is exposed, mapping sites for its dismantling. This lays the groundwork for an understanding of geology as racializing...

... The epilogue highlights infrastructure—understood as a network of political, social, and material conditions that enable interconnectedness, coordination, and a degree of coherence and mutual trust among different social actors—as central for understanding individual and collective agency...

... understandings of the human embedded in the conceptual building blocks birthed in the wake of the Middle Passage were baked into categories that enabled Japanese thinkers and policymakers across the political spectrum to understand the economic calculations they were making about wages, labor power...

... This chapter addresses accessible futures for the ever-expanding disability demographic and its social and political importance. Demographers helped the authors understand the epistemology of numbers governing efforts to track the always unstable category of disability. Their measurements inform...

... The introduction sets out the book’s core argument. It situates this within existing critical approaches to human rights, showing how these hinge on the question of the human as the subject of rights, a subject shaped in relation to capitalism, colonialism, and the legal categories...

.../ordinary—a way of understanding that any form of ordinary life is always marked by things that seem extraordinary—as a category for thinking about experiences of violence. anthropology of violence ethics the ordinary ...

... This chapter begins with a critique of the tendency, common to Schmitt and Agamben (and their followers), to reduce the phenomenon of sovereignty to a largely unhistorical structural category. Opposing itself to the recent critical trend toward understanding sovereignty as the logical outcome...

... to the category of domestic servant, nanny, prostitute, or import bride, and criminalization. In addition, the chapter sets out the terms for understanding that subjectification was racialized, not only in the colonies, but also in the metropole. The cultural archive of the Dutch was filled with images in which...

... The introduction provides a framework for an exploration of meanings of military service that escapes “large” categories of (militarized) masculinity, violence, patriarchy, and the hegemony of the event-aftermath paradigm. It brings together archives, their forms, and feelings that persist...

.... A distinction between system and process is developed to grasp the complexity. Foucault’s categories of power—sovereign, disciplinary, biopower—are adopted and adapted. Ontopower is distinct from, and more encompassing than, all of these. Ontopower pertains to an ecology of powers also in the sense...

... of experience and culture that is both within and alienated from the categories of racial capitalism. Thus it is a geophysical zone that is a rift in the spatiality of white settler colonialism. Thinking with David Marriott’s liminality, the chapter circumscribes an alternative cosmic materiality. The radical...

... fracture and multiply the rigid genomic logics naturalized in the fertility industry. While the racial categories ascribed to donors are often assumed to be used for racial matching, the parents interviewed here routinely reject matching in favor of other priorities. In the process, they highlight...

... of photography while rejecting the broader category. Using Callahan’s photographs, she suggests other meanings within such work that exceed its nominal subject matter, conscious authorial intention, or modernist aesthetics. Among these are the gendered attributes of public space and the psychosexual dynamics...

... Drawing the wide arc of the key themes of the book, this chapter moves these themes to center stage in relation to the concept of “the mere”—the often invisible category of things, beings, and ideas that is (when noticed) regarded as trivial, unimportant, ineffective, expendable, supplemental...

... This chapter provides a historical overview of social and political mobilizations among the Chamar Dalits of Punjab. Beginning with their attempts to representg themselves as Ad-Dharmis, a separate religious group and not a caste category, in the colonial census in 1931, the chapter shows...