...9Securing Standby and Urban Space Making in Jakarta Intensities in Search of Forms AbdouMaliq Simone When residents of Jakarta look out upon their situations and physical settings, what looks secure? What kinds of looks enable them to act with a sense of as- suredness, while, at the same time...

... intensity is developed as an alternative. The focus is on the role of the other as catalyst for the inventive power of affect. At work is sympathy that does not reside in the subject but rather constitutes it in the complex back-and-forth between the infra- and transindividual levels of the relational field...

... As a nineteen-year-old student, the author made his first visit to the USSR. The chapter describes a brief detention at the Soviet border over a minor mistake in filling out an entry form, first impressions on arriving in Moscow, and the intense interest of their young Soviet guides—once older...

... level of intensity that requires focused attention. Analogously, quiet photography names a heuristic for attending to the lower range of intensities generated by images assumed to be mute. The choice to “listen to” rather than simply “look at” images is a conscious decision to challenge the equation of...

... immigration and settlement patterns by middle-class Filipino families to the Bay Area, and cultural trends, such as the brief but intense discotheque boom following the success of the film Saturday Night Fever. The chapter also introduces the class dimensions that became more pronounced as the mobile scene...

... gesture, this chapter describes a form of diasporic affinity that is intense and intimate precisely because it is agonistic. ...

... feminine self beyond personal experience that is, in a sense, more poignant, as the individual self cannot exist outside history, particularly at its most intensely violent moment in the subcontinent. And yet the violence is not the driving emotional force of the writing; instead it is the household as the...

...” (1980s), “nepantla” (1990s), and “nepantleras” (2000s), Anzaldúa synergistically expands them into her relational onto-epistemology, or what she names “conocimiento.” An intensely personal, fully embodied process that gathers information from context, conocimiento also incorporates imaginal, spiritual...

... This chapter examines the industrialization of animation and the decline of artisanal performing animators. Animation is labor-intensive and involves much repetitive labor. The American animation industry emerged rapidly. Early figures such as John and Margaret Bray, Earl Hurd, Max and Dave...

... health actions, and more. Intensely inhabiting specific bodies and places as the means to cultivate the capacity to respond to worldly urgencies with each other is the core theme. The goal is to cultivate the capacity for response—response-ability. ...

... Snitow began teaching a course about gender and feminism in a summer school in Cracow, Poland in 1992, where both US and East Central European students encountered new ideas and each other. This piece offers a number of anecdotes to illustrate some of the themes of the always-intense...

... In the early 2000s, Žižek began an intensive project of generating his own account of Christian origins, at once inspired by and in opposition to Alain Badiou’s reading of St. Paul. Žižek’s goal in so doing was to find a way to preserve what he found most attractive in Badiou—his insistence on a...

... Writing matters if objects of analysis are to be understood as emergent forms with qualities, intensities, and trajectories that can be described or evoked. Writing is not epiphenomenal to thought but its medium. As it sidles up to worlds, disparate and incommensurate things throw themselves...