... (blackness) in terms of the modalities of noir blackness. Chester Himes genre noir ...

... known unknowns modalities of biomedical entrepreneurialism “genius babies ” Crspr gene editing fungible science uncertainty and finitude ...

... It is difficult to identify any work of sound studies that does not deal in some way with space, if only by implicitly incorporating epistemological and ontological commitments with respect to the spatiality of sound. This entry therefore proceeds through an exploration of certain modalities...

... This chapter focuses on Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin (1975) as an exercise in the racial grotesque. The film casts blackness as an absurd modality of critical dialogism with, among other things, the history of American animation, the New South ideal, vernacular cosmopolitanism, the blaxploitation...

... Chapter 5 explores the 20 February Movement in Morocco. It argues that this movement represents an inaugurative moment that set into motion new political, cultural, and gendered sensibilities and modalities of mobilization. By forging new modes of political engagement and discursive spaces...

... scientists' claim of “socialist pragmatism.” But new projects such as engineering “genius babies” and experimenting with gene editing on admittedly defective genes draw worries that poor ethical regulations in China give scientists there an edge over high-stakes research in the West. These two modalities...

... engaged in a public relations campaign in the name of scientific risk communication. The chapter suggests that an important modality of food policing is increasingly community based and feminized. Departing from the traditional expert-led model, risk communication today takes a participatory approach...

... and that allegory is a central modality of its narration. It finds allegory at work across geographically disparate sites of narrative cinema, from art cinema classics to crucial postcolonial texts, and including African, Southeast Asian, and Japanese cinemas. It reads allegory in contestations of tradition...

... and, thereby, participated in the construction of India as an archive of affect and temporality. Additionally, an analysis of these stores suggests identity and community formation as multiplex and heterogenous; furthermore, India represents only one of many modalities for the formation of subjectivity...

... The introduction traces the journeys that helped establish Afro-Atlantic speculation as a genre and modality that opens up possibilities for Black American social life in the post-1965 moment. Beginning with the collective mind-set that began to develop among Africans aboard ships during...

...-twentieth-century mug shots of African American Freedom Riders in the US South, it analyzes the sonic frequency of images. It defines the haptic as multiple forms of touch, which create alternative modalities for understanding the archival temporalities of images: the grammar of the archive. What is crucial...