... contingency determination essay-form intervention conjuncture ...

....” The idea of contingency, it is suggested, is especially fruitful to think with because it brings into view the idea of “intervention” as Hall’s signature style of intellectual action, and therefore also the role of the “essay” (as opposed to the monograph) as his signature writing form. The essay...

... questions à la: “Isn’t this precisely the real motivation behind the so called philanthro-capitalism…?” This essay defends Žižek’s wild analysis as an appropriate form of intervention in a culture that speaks a lot, but doesn’t say much. Further, the essay addresses the anxiety and the ethics of the wild...

... This essay explores the concept of the semicolonial as a form of the locally lived global history of capitalism as a socioeconomic and cultural formation. By contrasting the 1930s and the 1990s versions of the concept—where the 1930s poses the problem in a global imperialist context...

... short film traditions. Reflections on the essay form by Theodor Adorno are drawn in as are Gilles Deleuze’s writing on the “irrational cut” as a mode that attempts to capture something of the movement of thought itself. These are in turn placed in conversation with the new work generated...

... enforcement, cultural and racial mixing, or mestizaje , and emerging forms of undocumented youth activism and identity formation. The essay suggests that borders, mestizaje, and “illegal” identities have been dramatically reworked and resignified on the ground. racism identity borders immigration ...

... This essay looks to J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre and especially his recent The Childhood of Jesus to examine key features of critique as a method of textual analysis. In so doing, the essay considers how critique-based theory has also shaped recent developments in the novel as a form. Coetzee...

... This essay argues that “trash” is a key category for understanding processes of cultural devaluation and decapitalization. It investigates what it frames as despised forms in a specific literary archive: the vast production of Caribbean pulp fiction published in the post-WWII period. Examining...

... of producing film, as they persuade radically different and dispersed images to “talk” to each other. How they work with and think about archives, collecting, and collage; what their views are on the essay film form and its legacies in the present; their uses of voice and sound; and their negotiation...

... This essay introduces a Chinese critique of the Austrian School of economics through a consideration of 1930s economist Wang Yanan’s philosophical essays on the economic concepts and social scientific norms of his day. The return of marginal utility and market fundamentalism through...

... This essay explores the application of postgenomic science to matters of health justice. Analyzing public health policies, genome project records, interviews with project leaders and leading genetic epidemiologists, and news coverage of four international projects, the essay illuminates the ways...

... This essay reexamines the hoary old conceit of the Asiatic mode of production (AMP) in its initial posing in Chinese historiography in the 1930s and in its reemergence in the 1990s. The intranational comparative allows for an analysis of the AMP not only as a form of global economic history...

... Sequence data, the “backbone” of genomics, is in transformation, and this transformation may well change what genomes are. The changes described in this essay concern how biological processes associated with genomes are modeled. As predictive models based on machine learning techniques...

... This chapter thinks about desire and female intimacies through their sacred affects, their illegibility and incoherence, and through the pleasures and violence which become bonds between queer women in Pakistan. In this creative non-fiction essay, I think of queerness along intersections...

... be considered a missed encounter between Lamming and Baldwin, the chapter establishes a dialogue between the writers’ Congress essays and notes the critical errors and misreadings the writings evince. Through the awkwardness of these essays and the general affective melee within the Congress to which...

... This essay examines the implications of current data production and dissemination regimes for credit attribution and reward systems associated with authorship in genomic science. Paying attention to these scientific practices sheds light on one of the new and exciting aspects of postgenomic...

... the role of racial logics in the contemporary work and history of empire? The essay conceptualizes “remaindered life” as an alternative form of social reproduction that corrodes dominant social relations and instead produces fugitive socialities, which may be made available to obstruct the spread of empire...

... This essay, shaped in the form of a reflection on a personal encounter with the Hugo Boss Prize exhibition Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum in New York by contemporary photographer Deana Lawson, examines issues of race and representation in the contemporary art market. It questions the fad...

... How are pop musical genres launched into global circulation? How might the movement of vernacularized musical forms help us map the emergent transnational musical circuits of the 1960s? How were these circuits both constructed and circumscribed by linguistic barriers and the geopolitical...

... This afterword considers the contribution of the essays in Archipelagic American Studies toward a definition of the archipelagic imaginary. It addresses questions of representation, suggesting that the relational flows of the archipelago become a corollary to the idea of multidirectional...