... modes of existence larval habits sensory government emergency government ...

... This chapter conducts four probes into contemporary controversies over habit's contested political histories. Looking first at the place Bruno Latour accords habit in the operations of “modes of existence,” it then considers the difficulties associated with Gilles Deleuze's famous aphorism: “We...

... 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...

... How are we to understand Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century? Is it a racist ruse, a stubborn residue of racial pseudoscience? Is it something that exists but that should not be allowed to have social or political relevance? Or is it a potentially empowering force...

... argues that Roger Caillois’s account of mimesis as a radically passive mode of existence challenges the underlying interventionist logic of both models of reflexivity. The chapter concludes by exploring the possibilities of mimetic surrender as a radically noninterventionist ethic of mediation, through...

... with a longer tradition of collaborative and activist art production, arguing that the new forms of insight catalyzed by contemporary engaged art are simply the most recent manifestation of a mode of creative production with many precedents in the modernist tradition. The chapter concludes with a discussion...

... existing modes of data collection and expression. self-registering instruments clean data dirty data Weather Bureau Dust Bowl ...

..., in the aftermath of the defeat and occupation of Japan, the Koza school reemerged as the hegemonic framework in Marxist historiography and Marxist theory. Essential to this school’s arguments was the tendency to identify so-called feudal remnants overlapping the contemporary mode of capitalist development...

... The chapter examines the transformations wrought by the expansion of sugar production in the first half of the nineteenth century. Few indeed were the professions and vocations not implicated in and dependent on the new wealth created by sugar. Most of all, sugar summoned into existence...

... tenacious parasites. These ants are constantly moving among multiple elements, never sticking to just one environment. In a phrase , Ectatomma ants have become ontological amphibians. Literal amphibians can choose among modes of existence—they can live both on earth and in water. Ontological amphibians...

... relatively unchanged. She describes her own contributions as “writing on photography [that] has been generally concerned with particular bodies of work, or particular photographers and exists in a difficult-to-define space between journalistic, academic, and polemical modes of description and analysis...

... and policy of preserving old customs and structures played in rationalizing the endocolonization that the Japanese state required in its peripheries during the initial stages of its own formation. What emerges from this investigation is that the implementation in Okinawa of a capitalist mode of production...

... unrelated discourse has emerged that focuses on precarity of another sort: the increasingly precarious hold on existence of life itself, due to deteriorating ecological conditions. Why are diverse societies with such varied histories and relationships to capitalist markets stuck in a downward spiral...

... on precarity of another sort: the increasingly precarious hold on existence of life itself, due to deteriorating ecological conditions. Why are diverse societies with such varied histories and relationships to capitalist markets stuck in a downward spiral of resource exploitation, even as evidence mounts...

... but rather driven it into clandestine indoor venues and online commercial sex markets, what results is not the elimination of sexual abjection but rather a fluid, neoliberal mode of economic abjection. The chapter then analyzes how global sex workers devise strategies that reuse this neoliberal abjection...

...Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning In reading three Partition narratives by Pakistan women discussed here, this chapter is particularly interested in the way history, personal and political, appears in their writing. The writing is marked by complex feelings of anger at how history came...

... of sensuality), Tyler, the Creator positions deathlife as a mode of defilement, of destruction, that challenges the integrity and logic of the social world and the grammar and vocabulary used to narrate that social world. Distinction between life and death as the source of joy is disrupted through radical...

... intersections of class, language, religion, and locality. By doing so, I explore the moments of failure to define the desires and intimacies among women which escape stable meanings and identities. Furthermore, in imagining queer lives and elsewheres in Pakistan, this essay offers a queer mode of telling...

... residual humanisms but that opens onto the possibility of thinking with the minor affective registers of Black existence. Highlighting the conjunction between Black critiques of humanism and those repertoires of wayward feeling that subtend Black existence, this chapter argues that too thick feeling moves...

... of resistance that operate outside the institutional art world. The chapter also links these practices with a longer tradition of collaborative and activist art production, arguing that the new forms of insight catalyzed by contemporary engaged art are simply the most recent manifestation of a mode of creative...