... This chapter turns to flesh’s appearance in European philosophy in the mid-twentieth century, foregrounding the figure of flesh in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings. His philosophy moves from discussions of incarnation to the body to flesh. For Merleau-Ponty, the incarnation implies an...

... incarnations of social relations, taking place through perception, interactions between human beings, and the materialization of human activities in the nonhuman world. The chapter further discusses how social arrangements shape perception, in dialogue with Linda Martín Alcoff. Judith Butler’s description of...

... This chapter treats the poetics of flesh in the Gospel of John, highlighting the movement of central images: flesh, bread, spirit, and water. The gospel articulates the incarnation in terms of “flesh” rather than body. Salvation is envisioned through flesh. The chapter traces the gospel’s...

... This chapter treats the poetics of flesh in the Gospel of John, highlighting the movement of central images: flesh, bread, spirit, and water. The gospel articulates the incarnation in terms of “flesh” rather than body. Salvation is envisioned through flesh. The chapter traces the gospel’s...

... This chapter turns to flesh’s appearance in European philosophy in the mid-twentieth century, foregrounding the figure of flesh in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings. His philosophy moves from discussions of incarnation to the body to flesh. For Merleau-Ponty, the incarnation implies an...

... introduction provides an origin story for the emergence of radical student movements at the end of the New Order regime in the 1990s and introduces the student activist as the latest incarnation of pemuda nationalism in Indonesia. ...

... genitals that slide across the visor, smearing a gray liquid across our field of fenestrated tendrils, & shavings of blue dye all intemperate, flinching, they plummet into a circle of homicidal deities incarnated as glass shards, or perhaps as nothing, cold gusts of disembowelled martyrs...

... This chapter investigates the significance of the apocalyptic landscape and zombie figure in Díaz’s short story “Monstro.” It focuses on the zombie within the Caribbean context to suggest that this particular incarnation mirrors the history of capital-based societies with their Western...

... Using Édouard Glissant’s assertion that the imagination is shaped by and expresses itself through the materiality of space, this essay focuses on a geopolitics of the figure of Caliban in Antillean theatre. No longer the incarnation of nativist claims of sovereignty, Caliban is precariously...

... enter into what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi famously called a state of flow. Through an analysis of several incarnations of Very Nervous System , this chapter examines some of the ways the work alters people’s perceptions of their bodies and encourages a state of flow through embodied forms of...

... This chapter focuses on the social dimensions of the constitution of flesh, using the term “social-material flesh” to emphasize the intertwining of the social and material dimensions of what Merleau-Ponty calls the “flesh of the world.” The term describes society as incarnations of social...

... very meaning of HIV itself, leading to new, symbolic incarnations of HIV in the domain of political economy. ...

... very meaning of HIV itself, leading to new, symbolic incarnations of HIV in the domain of political economy. ...

... limitations and transcend incarnate experience. Similar desires informed the mythology of the personal computer upon its debut. Yaakov Garb, credited with inventing the term “virtual reality,” called these desires “the dreams our culture has inscribed in silicon”; he critiqued the mythology surrounding...

.... Taking up the AMP in its earliest Marxist systematicity, and then in its 1930s and 1990s historiographical incarnations, this chapter interrogates the gaps between universal economic concepts and locally lived histories and the ways in which those gaps are bridged in today’s culturalist discourse. ...

... the liberal subject was embodied. Moreover, movement was the corporeal condition for rationality. This centrality of movement shows that the figure of the abstract, universal subject is a later incarnation of liberal subjectivity and is not integral to liberalism as such. It also explains why some...

... Trotskyist Bolivian Workers Party ( por ), he led the section of his party that allied with the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) at the time of the revolution in 1952, bolstering the left wing of this multifaceted nationalist party. In the early years of the revolution, he was the incarnation of...

... of today’s so-called “HIV Monsters,” arguing that changes in HIV policy and jurisprudence have fundamentally altered the very meaning of HIV itself, leading to new, symbolic incarnations of HIV in the domain of political economy. Criminal prosecutions for HIV exposure, transmission, and...

... the University of Melbourne, who read, most meticulously, the entire manuscript in vari- ous incarnations. Her invaluable insights had the most profound effect on this book, and I doubt that I will ever be able to return such an enor- mous favor. I know no better close reader, or truer friend...