... This chapter examines how Global India is temporally and provisionally fixed by specific discourses of morality across four apparently discrepant nodes: conceptions of Resurgent India circulated via a government campaign and in popular discourse, moral panics surrounding the celebration...

... This chapter charts how network nodes are shaped by the politics, histories, and geographies of islands across the Pacific. The chapter counters the existing conceptual opposition between the networks and islands, and instead reveals how islands have been critical to transpacific cable systems...

... existing nodes; and expand networks’ potential uses. It suggests that we might benefit from re-conceptualizing all media as “under water.” undersea cable infrastructure cable politics underwater ...

... as constituted through specific regimes of affect and temporality. Drawing on South Asian and Asian American scholarship, this chapter situates New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area as nodes in the transnational circulation of media, capital, commodities, and populations, and foregrounds the role of public...

... as a central node through which to analyze, understand, and critique US empire. This shift foregrounds the structures and fissures of territoriality in the formation and ongoing articulation of empire, drawing attention to how territorialisms have indelibly shaped auto-, intra-, inter-, and transarchipelagic...

... the idealized and placeless NRIs constructed by Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, customers navigate a complex social terrain. These stores also formed a crucial node in the production of sense memories and sensuous knowledges that enabled the simultaneous reification and unsettlement of India and Indianness...

... the world. Barrancabermeja illustrates how the upward redistribution of global wealth emerges from a wellspring of imposed disorder and how the spatial coordinates of class power in Colombia have recohered around regional development poles based in extractive industries. These nodes of capitalist power...

... This chapter considers how musicians and others create or increase the economic value of cultural commodities in the capitalist marketplace. For Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, supply-chain capitalism creates value at various nodes of a supply chain through processes of translation and purification...

... into view the interconnections and interactions between biological parts, and especially parts of genomes. They have made accounts based on the structure or wiring of sets of biological parts possible and powerful. The representation and reduction of biological parts to nodes and edges in networks also...

... and large-scale vital systems, making the neoliberal immune system a key node in the national defense. This channeling of fear into optimism in state technologies of control—dread life—unleashed new practices of decolonization by turning medical knowledges, treatment protocols, patient collectives, social...

... on this trope to read closely the important nodes of the recent past and present moment to theorize a “new and more possible meeting” of our artists, activists, scholars, policymakers, and intellectuals. The essay both builds on and departs from the terms and acronyms that denote nonheteronormative peoples...

... station became a backdrop for studying insects, an ant called Ectatomma ruidum , which refuses to make categorical distinctions between enemies and allies. Ectatomma ants are entangled in a “distributed, or full-matrix, network in which there is no center and all nodes can communicate directly with all...

... links, and to impede what Black radicals based in Los Angeles termed “cultural collaboration” with apartheid. The story of antiapartheid activism in Los Angeles is thus the story of both one node in a worldwide movement for majority rule inside South Africa and part of a tale of the persistence of Third...

... argues that this small grassroots organization positioned same-gender erotic autonomy as a defining feature of Jamaican cultural identity and situated the island as a key node of international gay activism. In so doing, it offers a narrative that expands existing accounts of the period in which...

... Chapter 8 is an invitation to a collective speculative fabulation that follows five generations of a symbiogenetic join of a human child and monarch butterflies along the lines and nodes of these insects’ migrations between Mexico and the United States and Canada. These lines trace socialities...

... California to those in Southern Africa, to sever commercial and diplomatic links, and to impede what Black radicals based in Los Angeles termed “cultural collaboration” with apartheid. The story of antiapartheid activism in Los Angeles is thus the story of both one node in a worldwide movement for majority...

... as a defining feature of Jamaican cultural identity and situated the island as a key node of international gay activism. In so doing, it offers a narrative that expands existing accounts of the period in which heterosexuality marked the limits of Jamaican struggles to transform national and international...