... This interview-based introduction to installation art by Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare highlights the history of cross-cultural translation woven into the very fabric of his signature material, Dutch wax print cloth. Originating in East Asian batik, which was copied by Dutch colonials...

... homotropic dimension running beneath images of mixed-race heterosexual couplings. This interview-based introduction to installation art by Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare highlights the history of cross-cultural translation woven into the very fabric of his signature material, Dutch wax print...

...The Flag is Bleeding, 1967 Oil on canvas 72 x 96 inches Artist's collection 97 98 Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger, 1967-1969 Oil on canvas 36 x 50 inches Artist's collection Flag Story Quilt, 1985 Appliqued, tie-dyed, and pieced fabric 57 x 78 inches The Spenser Museum 99 1 00...

...one morning in august 2017, in the Chinese city of Keqiao, I visited the office of an Indian fabric trader named Deepak, who had been born and brought up in the Mumbai suburb of Ulhasnagar.1 In Deepak s office that morning, a fabric sample caught my attention: with a shining orange as the...

... This chapter documents how counterinsurgent, paramilitary terror unmade Barrancabermeja’s working class by rupturing the fabric of popular solidarity and dispossessing and displacing working people from the late twentieth century to the present. Political violence provided both the preconditions...

... a genre of design, fabrication, and performance. The complex relation of self-representation to truth claims is also explored. ...

... Arendt’s own account of the world as the objective world of fabricated things and the intersubjective world of speech and acts. This chapter argues that Arendt’s concept of natality is a dogmatic anthropologistic reduction of the force of worlding, as evidenced by the utopianism of her solutions to modern...

... to reshape the social fabric and landscape of Metro Manila. Through an ethnographic investigation of transnational realtors, Filipino American investors, and business process outsourcing employees, this chapter utilizes the case of Metro Manila to demonstrate how the forces compelling the...

... errors in a computer program; the other was over claims that data was fabricated. This chapter takes a close look at how the community responded to these events to learn more about the role of trained judgment and moral economy in their practice of objectivity. The chapter then examines a third event in...

... thus neither a creation ex nihilo nor a mechanical fabrication or rearrangement of old elements. It is a continually inventive immanence, an always-beginning improvisation among the innumerable plenitude of the real. Jankélévitch concludes the chapter by arguing that only intuition captures duration...