... The first chapter uses a quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet about being true to one’s self to understand the concept of self in Western thought, as well as ways of “capturing” the self. It proceeds to define selfies as technological inventions of the mobile phone and questions whether they ought...

... The final chapter returns to Hamlet , then ruminates on dreams as expressions of the self. It looks at the enigma encrypted in da Vinci’s Mona Lisa . It meditates on felfies—selfies, some of them historical, that are doctored to achieve particular effects. And it talks about life as an album...

... This chapter tells the story of a Mayan woman, over the sixteen years the author has known her, who went from being a hamlet schoolteacher and cultural rights activist through increasing involvement in transnational networks—which were like and unlike the ngo connections pushing education...

... and rehearses notable instances of Žižek’s reliance on literary texts to illustrate key concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism—texts that include, among others, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Richard II , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein , Herman Melville’s “Bartleby...

... growers. The march had a profound national impact. President Jaime Paz Zamora, accompanied by a delegation of cabinet ministers and parliamentary leaders, went to meet the procession midroute, at the small subtropical hamlet of Yolosa, in the hopes of defusing it. Yet the marchers rejected...

...Mayan Pyramids This chapter tells the story of a Mayan woman, over the sixteen years the author has known her, who went from being a hamlet schoolteacher and cultural rights activist through increasing involvement in transnational networks—which were like and unlike the ngo connections...

... had a profound national impact. President Jaime Paz Zamora, accompanied by a delegation of cabinet ministers and parliamentary leaders, went to meet the procession midroute, at the small subtropical hamlet of Yolosa, in the hopes of defusing it. Yet the marchers rejected the government’s concessions...