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... in real time? The riddle of communication is solved by showing how transnational business practices rely on the transmutation of cultural communication into global communication through the processes of neutralization and mimesis. Neutralization refers to attempts at pruning unwanted cultural particulars...

.... With special reference to questions of gender, the chapter also pursues a larger theoretical inquiry into the increasing neutrality of the global techno-economy to diurnal-nocturnal differences as well as felt differences of social, cultural, and bodily rhythms. The chapter resolves the puzzle by declaring...

...): 83–125. For a broader discussion of an occupied people’s tactics of resistance, smuggling among them, see Ash, When the Yankees Came, 38–75. Jane E. Schultz discusses the considerable tasks of volunteer nurses like “Mrs. Spriggins, the Neutral” in “ ‘Are We Not All Soldiers?’: Northern Women...

...No Language Is Neutral ...

... Benedictine monks in Algeria, the chapter documents a range of cases in which adherence to the principle of “humanity” required ICRC workers to subject themselves to possible acts of violence, sometimes while providing medical aid to the very people carrying out such acts. Such “neutrality” is neither...