... This chapter starts with a puzzle: Why is there a total absence, in thought and in practice, of any collective struggle against the graveyard shift worldwide? It explores the contemporary globalization of night work and the gradual lifting of legal barriers against the nocturnal shift...

...Nettie’s Nocturne ...

... men’s medicine yijing (nocturnal emission) reproduction castration moral symptomatology ...

... slavery nocturnal power Black body Sony Labou Tansi Amos Tutuola ...

... This chapter examines the use of color in the planning, shooting, and postproduction color correction of an experimental film set in nocturnal Chennai, pondering the conceptual challenges posed by color-related feeling and sensation in cinema. color sensation experiment Maurice Merleau...

... In early capitalism, power harnessed the excess or surplus of the real to engender, transgress, and possess, to allow life and mete out death. Yet nocturnal power—as killing power, arising from a pact with the dead—was antagonized by the ghostly figure of the Black slave as both unfinished...

... This chapter de-essentializes the shame associated with impotence by locating it in the historical context of China’s post-Mao transformation. Through the contrast between declining clinic visits by patients seeking medication for yijing (nocturnal emission) and the increase in patient visits...

...Society and the State This chapter de-essentializes the shame associated with impotence by locating it in the historical context of China’s post-Mao transformation. Through the contrast between declining clinic visits by patients seeking medication for yijing (nocturnal emission...

...The City at Night Part VI, “The City at Night,” looks at the dynamic spirit of Buenos Aires after hours. It explores the city’s effervescent nocturnal spirit and the entertainment industries, music, dancing, eroticism, and even the more mundane traditions that illuminate its nights. Documents...

... as a political project, with particular attention to criticisms that are commonly aimed at youthful, queer, and nocturnal subcultures. An overview of the three main fieldwork sites then follows, including maps of the principal venues for each city. This is followed by a detailed discussion of fieldwork methods...

... and temporary (usually nocturnal) form of sanctuary, and the declared spaces and times of emergency. This separation of sanctuary and emergency is argued to augment the power of law through the creation of desire for law's certainty and more predictable forms of violence manifest in the day. The chapter links...

... differentiating realms. Separations of cultural and neutral accents; of social, bureaucratic, and system identities; of diurnal body and nocturnal work; and of economic, social, and physical knowledge production are briefly discussed to illuminate divergent tracks and independent itineraries of different realms...

... a theory of the night that could account for this nocturnal politics, which has historically allowed violence to persist without adequate critique. The chapter links the history of controlling the movement of Black people at night and their access to arms to contemporary police and vigilante killings...