... Brazilians had long used Fernando de Noronha’s convict society as a foil to comprehend and define mainland social norms and the meanings of freedom. The Brazilian state’s need for cheap labor for public works, its lack of prison capacity, and the expense of maintaining prisoners separated...

... In what could be described as a temporal blurring or scrambling in the spirit of intoxication, as well as an exemplary pronouncement of intoxicated method, “Afterwards” assembles a series of foiled endings: a truncated story running alongside jagged contemporaneities that have previously...

... In the conclusion the book explores some of the wildest, most excessive, and most speculative projects for planetary evacuation as a foil with which to reflect on and progress the different themes explored in this book. Expectations of the end of the Earth have given rise to a whole set...

... Chapter 2 discusses a theory of the rift as a spatial form and methodological process for understanding the earth that colonialism broke, and as a foil for the epistemic smoothness of geology in its homogenization of the elemental. The rift is understood as a place and perspective from which...

... the question of Palestine, we must read the camp as a political object; the camp is a kind of archive of the historical forces in play and is entangled with the colony from the start as its foil. The introduction also presents the concept of settlerness as a way of thinking about temporality and settler...

..., Maulana Karenga provides a foundational vindicationist voice for this chapter. The philosophical work of Sylvia Wynter provides a foil for Karenga's vindicationist approach, extending the spirit of Négritude. Together Maât and Wynter's humanism recode and ontologize justice/s—telling a new terrastory...

... Tenorio proved the perfect foil. Ubiquitous in Mexican popular culture, Don Juan epitomized all that was wrong with traditional male scripts: arrogance, impetuosity, misogyny, cruelty, and egotism. For penny press writers, local tenorios were figures of fun, ridiculed for their absurd seductions...

... of Sylvia Wynter provides a foil for Karenga's vindicationist approach, extending the spirit of Négritude. Together Maât and Wynter's humanism recode and ontologize justice/s—telling a new terrastory. pornographies transnational tantalizing tensions ontology Maulana Karenga ...