... The ethnographic fictions here, all concerning the HIV epidemic in South Africa, engage with the generative apparatus of everyday understandings of what it means to live in a country where life expectancy can plunge for humans while domestic animals, at least in certain neighborhoods, eat so...

... and transform motifs drawn from Islamic tradition, including those relating to the torments of the soul after death. As such, they allow Ilyas to achieve an otherwise impossible proximity to his own madness and thus, at least temporarily, to reorder his existence and resume his life in the world. mental...

... these elements without restoring to the phallus if not to its physicality, then at least to its living flesh. virilism patriarchy colony plantocracy genitalia ...

... In a world fraught with pressure, terror inevitably exerts dominance over the psyche. Since at least the 1960s, pop songs have presented love as balm for and antidote to such terror. “Under Pressure” also works through the dualism of terror and love but abandons the facile solutions...

... and Rodchenko are examined in detail, attention is also given to the theoretical or “aesthetic” supporters of constructivism or, at least, of the radical art such as Arvatov, Brik, Gan, Punin, and Tarabukin—arguments being that a primary aspiration of the constructivists was to reduce art to a formula, to make...

... the analysis of the country’s economic situation that the protectionist Villager had begun in 1830, and would last until at least 1860, when the entire economy was deregulated. ...

... Emerging from the long Black intellectual tradition, radical Black lesbian feminist work anticipates (and to some degree mitigates) some of the thorny epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic questions that anthropologists face, and have critiqued, since at least the early 1980s. This chapter...

... of mischief — at least not by design. But sometimes I have been bumbling, wandering, disconnected, with no expectation — or intention — of being accepted. I’ll drop the phallic image of the picaro, the sexual miscreant, traveling from place to place with a lance, but I will hold onto the more general...

.... The reviewer thinks this radical book is often taken too literally and should be recognized as belonging, at least in part, to the genre of utopian writing. feminist utopia feminist futures Second Wave feminism radical feminism founders of feminism The Dialectic of Sex Shulamith Firestone ...

... This chapter builds on guesstimating the toll of the civil war by saying every extended family had lost at least one person—so everyone is minus one. But it also introduces the way some Mayan people have come to count, including feeling welcomed at the luxury Camino Real hotel and accepted...

... with the state and lawyers; his hideouts, escapes, torture, and imprisonment. All the actors and actions described in the story belong to the order of the plausible, and thus to the order of history—oral history, at the very least. Nevertheless, even as Mariano’s political activism successfully unfolded, social...

... One of the ways that capitalism operates, at least in the realm of cultural goods, is by disciplining, or creating, forms of value that exist alongside it; these are forms of value that might be culturally viewed as something other than capitalist but actually are part of capitalism—camouflaged...

...Interlude<subtitle>Nostalgia and Its Discontents</subtitle> Since at least the second half of the nineteenth century, writers and commentators as well as ordinary people constructed an idealized representation of old, colonial Lima as a city of beauty, charm, and prosperity. Even life among...

... the Finest Porcelain (2016, 29 minutes) explores these two logics through a narrator-archaeologist and her psychoanalyst, who promote radically different modes of “archival repair.” In the Future introduces a temporal dimension to the present impossibility of Palestine (as a nation state, at least...