...Geopolitics, Social Classification, and Border Thinking ...

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... The author recalls her labia being airbrushed in magazine centerfolds to meet classification requirements for “discreet” genitals. She recalls a film shoot involving G-spot ejaculation where the squirting was edited out of the DVD cut. To find out how Australian classification law began...

... By documenting unchanging facts such as date of birth, place of birth, parents, and sex, a birth certificate establishes a permanent link between an individual's identity and their body. As a permanent biometric measure, sex classification stands alone: a visual inspection of an individual's...

...Regulatory Fantasies The author recalls her labia being airbrushed in magazine centerfolds to meet classification requirements for “discreet” genitals. She recalls a film shoot involving G-spot ejaculation where the squirting was edited out of the DVD cut. To find out how Australian...

..., and sex, a birth certificate establishes a permanent link between an individual's identity and their body. As a permanent biometric measure, sex classification stands alone: a visual inspection of an individual's person cannot provide the truth of their current name or date of birth or their country...

... narration. The chapter attends to how geologic grammars join classification and geologies of race into modes of valuation, across material and symbolic terrains, to create shared metaphysical and geophysical architectures of affects. Examples demonstrate how racialized materialisms fundamentally shaped...

.... But the technoaesthetics of the cybernetic border are not only available to those with access to the classification regime. A wider range of users makes sense of its maneuvers. Activists and artists draw on technoaesthetics to examine conceptual and political meanings—its ordering of the senses, its normalization...

... and economic calculations, but people’s ways of measuring changes in their surroundings do not necessarily rely on legal classifications of water, environmental standards, or scientific studies. The engagement and interactions between people, land, and other elements of the environment—made through affect...

... later output also affirmed that his success was no fluke, as he scored multiple hits in a range of styles and became a gay icon. While his ultimate genre classification might be neither country nor rap but really “internet,” the radio acceptance Lil Nas X has enjoyed reveal him to be an artist...

... This chapter details the marketing of reggaetón as “Hurban” (a combination of “Hispanic” and “urban”) once it entered the United States. Through a close reading of newspaper and magazine coverage of reggaetón, this chapter shows how the Hurban classification reinforced dominant distinctions...

... This chapter examines the emergence of San Francisco’s cross-dressing law at the crossroads of three forces: defining cross-dressing and prostitution as indecency, framing indecency as a societal problem in need of intervention, and identifying local law as the solution. The classification...

... as a phenomenon in itself, independent of materiality. These concepts led Schaeffer to attempt a new classification and description of sounds, in which the traditional aspects of musical sound (pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre) would be rethought in different terms: mass, maintenance, grain, caliber...