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... In chapter fourteen, Shankar thinks through the politics of digital time as it structures Sahaayaka's intervention. In particular Shankar shows how CEO Krish manipulates fieldworkers' experience of time as they use a new Sahaayaka phone app which makes their job far more about data collection...

... This chapter explores the potentiality involved in manipulating the colonial Israeli cinematic archive, exploring Kamal Aljafari’s three mesmerizing essay-films: The Roof (2006, 61 minutes), Port of Memory (2009, 62 minutes), and Recollection (2015, 70 minutes). Taken together, these films...

... of “Trotskyism.” As James writes, “deprived of Trade Unions and Press, their Soviets being merely a screen for the manipulation of Stalin’s monolithic party, the workers were helpless.” Soviet Union Bureaucracy Joseph Stalin Great Terror Trotskyism ...

... This chapter analyzes the infoldings of COVID times that strengthen, subvert, use, and manipulate categories of human, animal, plant, and machine. It uses the artwork of Mithu Sen to visualize the demarcation that we make between technology, animal, plant, and human, as well as to think about...

... between theory and conspiracy, while attending to the need to identify political manipulations for power or profit. critical theory conspiracy theory epistemology psyops violence ...

... manipulated. They are politically useful, yet their political weight rests upon their claim to represent (in aggregate) actual people. The chapter juxtaposes evidence from research on maternal death in southeastern Africa with an analysis of the assumptions built into statistical models of maternal mortality...

... This chapter argues that, in proposing to combat climate change, geoengineering practices that aspire to deliberately manipulate the environment to neutralize the effects of climate change simultaneously reinforce the neoliberal world order and disadvantage Indigenous Peoples. Posing climate...

...Introduction<subtitle>Writing a Mosaic</subtitle> The introduction lays out the central contradictions of cure: cure saves lives, manipulates lives, prioritizes lives, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body and mind loss. These tensions are called a knot...

... that state attention to the past is coming to take on material meaning and become an idiom through which residents express their rights and concerns about the commodification of Afro-Bahian bodies. It also examines the ways that a people who have learned the extent to which history has become a manipulated...

... ceremony, at which the instrument is used to attract the spirits of ancestors to possess a spirit medium. This context is contrasted with the secular use of mbira in Mapfumo’s music. The chapter concludes with a focus on how both sides of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle tried to manipulate influential...

... Chapter 4 returns to the question of the gaze as an apparatus of control, asking under what conditions of spectatorship, production, and distribution might photography become a means of intervention into, or manipulation of, the visual field that currently binds Israelis and Palestinians...

... be less clear now. This chapter asks why this may be so and why this moment marks and demands new thinking. It argues that our understandings of “the carnal,” with an emphasis more on the sexual than “on the flesh,” have been too constricted to account for the sorts of bodily intrusions and manipulations...

... for fixation on various media; phonogeneration, or the technological creation of sounds; and reshaping, or the processing or manipulation of sounds. These basic effects have served in turn to decouple and to isolate elements of acoustic production and experience that were formerly inherently connected...

... At the end of the twentieth century, turntablist-djs reemerged from the shadows of hip-hop culture’s stages. Using turntable technology not just to play music but instead to manipulate sound, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, a five-member Filipino American dj crew, were central figures...

... Chapter 4 describes and analyzes the role played by political brokers—and clientelist politics in general—in the subsistence strategies of the urban poor. Issues of manipulation, control, and ambivalence are highlighted. The chapter delves into the life of, Pocho, La Matera’s main political...