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...The “Período Especial” and the Future of the Revolution ...

...The Período Especial ...

... In the space of informality and disregulation, new and competing sovereigns emerge, especially to do the work of providing security in the market. sovereignty security policing privatization ...

... The interlude “Don’t Take It Away” pays tribute to the often-nameless BlackFem voices found in many forms of popular music but especially electronic dance music, where we find a long history of integrally using BlackFem singing voices without attributing any credit to the vocalists, whether it’s...

... from parish to parish during individual lifetimes. The other way is the experience of married, and especially remarried, women, who moved from family to family propelled by the vicissitudes of their marital experience. Using examples from the patrician Venier and Vitturi clans, this essay argues...

... Lecture 25, “Poststructuralism and Derrida,” begins by laying out the distance between structuralism and poststructuralism. It then offers a summary of the work (especially the early) of Jacques Derrida. sliding of the signifier antiessentialism originary complexity différance...

... Lecture 3, “Beginnings,” begins the backstory of contemporary theory by discussing some of the contributions of the Middle Ages, including those of the Arab and Islamic worlds of the time, especially in Al-Andalus. It then offers a very brief consideration of the Renaissance. Scholasticism...

... Lecture 30, “Stuart Hall,” explores the radical contextualism of the diasporic intellectual Stuart Hall by considering his relation to theory and politics. It demonstrates these through a consideration of his work on hegemony and difference (especially race and ethnicity). diaspora...

... This chapter is a manifesto for writing in the Indian subcontinent. The main thrust is toward producing writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, that makes sense of rampant violence in our society, especially violence against women and people from lower castes. Indian writing in English...

... This chapter explores how, during World War II, the production and supply of drugs were greatly disrupted while legitimate medical demand, especially for opiates, increased. Use of amphetamines increased as well. All governments worked to control narcotics distribution, and illicit use decreased...

... This chapter goes to the heart of civilization practice, namely the religious worship of images in India and China and especially the recurrent campaigns to destroy them. It examines the variegated histories of iconoclasm in India and China and the problem of sovereignty that is central to them...

... Lecture 14, “Marx and Historical Materialism,” examines the way Karl Marx proposed understanding specific historical societies with a model of base/superstructure and the different ways that model has been understood and elaborated through the various ”schools” of Marxism, especially in relation...

... This chapter provides a close reading of Walter Benjamin’s essay “Little History of Photography” (1931). It studies the photographs and photographers Benjamin drew on as he developed his thoughts about the optical unconscious, especially the calotypes made by David Octavius Hill and Robert...

... This chapter analyzes the trajectories of the ex-slaves and their descendants who left the plantations and migrated to other parts of the Recôncavo, especially Salvador, after abolition. The idea is to understand and analyze the migratory choices that ex-slaves made and the ways in which...

... This letter is concerned with the sense in which Stuart Hall was consummately oriented toward a responsiveness to the present rather than to abstract theoretical issues. It aims to show the role of “contingency” in his thinking and acting, especially its relation to his idea of a “conjuncture...