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Series: The Frank C. Brown collection of North Carolina folklore ;
Published: 01 January 1970
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382867-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8286-7
Book Chapter

By Lawrence Grossberg
Published: 13 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5983-7
... constructionism transcendental relationality phenomena noumena synthetic a priori ...
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059837-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5983-7
... Lecture 8, “Kant’s Copernican Revolution,” considers different views of the project of Immanuel Kant’s three critiques and explains Kant’s position as both an enlightenment and a modern thinker. constructionism transcendental relationality phenomena noumena synthetic a priori ...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372998-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7299-8
... This memoir recounts some of the social encounters and specific details of the photographic series Vancouver Carts (2005–ongoing) by the Canadian artist Kelly Wood. The series documents the changing phenomena of the shopping carts of the homeless in the area around the “poorest postal code...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 07 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375630-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7563-0
... on a football field at Stanford, and the recent Dance Your PhD contests. In these contexts, practitioners become kinesthetic proxies for the molecular phenomena they model. They run “body experiments,” rather than just thought experiments, using the physicality of their bodies to test and assess possible...
Series: [sic] Series
Published: 06 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375470-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7547-0
... The phenomena of anamorphism and the subversive effects, which results from the shift or switch of perspectives is also very much present and marks an important aspect in the work of Slavoj Žižek. This change in the perspective, is very much connected to some of Lacan’s concepts, such as object...
Published: 03 May 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059370-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9399-2
... harm. Indeed, all phenomena that involve access work, including gathering (in person, remotely, and in hybrid forms), emerge through harm as well as through hope. collective accountability access gathering harm disability futures ...
Published: 15 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375128-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7512-8
... performance, political performance, and aesthetic performance often work together. This chapter shows how these phenomena constitute a capitalist spectacle (Debord) interconnected to such a degree that it is difficult, if not impossible, to understand one without the other. scenario capitalism...
Published: 11 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374374-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7437-4
... and difference in the brain. It highlights the risks of essentializing social categories and fixing them in the developing brain—for example, in the brains of poor and minority children. The chapter argues that neuroscientific practices have an effect on (are part of) the phenomena they seek to measure, and thus...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 23 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375487-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7548-7
... This chapter explore the scene’s “social preconditions,” in other words, the larger forces and phenomena happening in the 1960s through the 1970s that created a social context in which the mobile scene could take root and grow. That includes both structural forces, such as large-scale...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373094-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... engineers conduct in vitro experiments on selected aspects of in vivo biological phenomena, and examines them as participants in distributed cognitive systems. These devices serve as a site not only of simulation of biological processes but also of the researchers’ epistemic norms and values. Examining how...
Published: 27 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027607-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
..., and neglect on behalf of state governments. This chapter demonstrates and explores the coping mechanisms that were developed in these communities to resist and survive these devastating phenomena. This chapter explains that the complex realities of living in borderlands are not limited to this space...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 07 April 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7318-6
... in the nineteenth century as well as a variety of social and cultural phenomena: the slave and Chinese populations; festivities such as Carnival, bullfights, and the Amancaes Parade; and the occupation of Lima and the destruction caused by the war with Chile. Writers recognized that Lima was changing...
Book Chapter

By Jennifer L. Morgan
Published: 21 May 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021452-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2145-2
... of enslaved women centers the material and ideological contours of reproduction in the emergence of both race and the “legitimate” slave trade. A failure to understand these emergent phenomena simultaneously runs the risk of understanding evidence of grief as the absence of critical thought. Ultimately, women...
Series: Singles
Published: 11 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027645-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2764-5
... phenomena and intersectional ferment. virality remix video closet record-breaking ...
Book Chapter

By Eunsong Kim
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059479-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... The introduction presents the main concepts of the book by discussing the phenomena of contemporary art markets, such as Art Basel, and philanthropic institutions such as the Poetry Foundation, in the context of the history of art collecting and institution making. The introduction historicizes...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373391-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7339-1
... The introduction examines the peculiar history shared by critique and the sovereign function, two phenomena bound by their common root in crisis. Tapping into that same history, the introduction advances a political thought intended to reinvigorate the nexus of crisis and critique by inserting...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375814-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7581-4
... The burgeoning field of nonconsciousness studies offers new paradigms. Studies of such phenomena as “deliberation without attention,” “choice blindness,” and “priming” have called into question the myth of rational calculation, showing, for example, that the more considered a consumer decision...
Published: 23 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375890-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7589-0
... and mutually constitutive. While the statuses of these categories are different, all were subject to varying degrees of coercive labor extraction. The introduction also highlights the phenomena of “category drift” that accelerated after the end of the transatlantic slave trade in 1850, the mobilization...
Published: 21 May 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021452-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2145-2
... Trade networks, markets, and financial instruments preexisted European contact on the West African coast for millennia, and knowledge of such phenomena was thus part of what captive Africans brought with them in their forced Atlantic crossings. Nonetheless, European writers dismissed...