... melancholia mourning moralism posture isorropia ...

... as a sense of mournfulness over loss. The second, a moralistic melancholia, names the “posture” (that is, the structuring of awareness and naming of response) associated with deathlife as the book has theorized and discussed it. “Posture,” as used in the epilogue, provides a concept with which to capture...

... attunements a Black feminist posture is poised to practice in Cuba and beyond. heritage Black radicalism Cuban Socialism feminist praxis attunement ...

... whose essential posture, not unlike that of the analyst, entails perspicuity about form, renunciation of mastery, and enthusiasm for the ironies and impossibilities of metadiscourse. Focusing on the distinction Žižek frequently draws between a “Real Lacan”—a Lacan of the Real—and the poststructuralist...

... essential posture, not unlike that of the analyst, entails perspicuity about form, renunciation of mastery, and enthusiasm for the ironies and impossibilities of metadiscourse. Focusing on the distinction Žižek frequently draws between a “Real Lacan”—a Lacan of the Real—and the poststructuralist Lacan...

... This chapter confronts us with a nearly unbearable thought: that politics as such, let alone leftist political activism and revolutionary transformation, is so thoroughly futile and farcical that a certain posture of acceptance is all that is left to us. Analyzing Pasolini’s film Salò...

... travels to bond with them to assuage his sense of dispossession. The chapter argues that Holland’s posture and demand for written apologies for slavery, along with the Cameroonian and Ghanaian peoples’ expectations for their relatively wealthy returned kin, demonstrate the pitfalls of focusing...

...” of the suicide bomber. Binebine’s novel contests the idea that suicide bombing exists beyond the pale of comprehension and detouring the masculinist posturing most often associated with representations of suicide terrorism. The chapter concludes with a reading of Binebine’s novel Cannibales, showing how...

... and farcical that a certain posture of acceptance is all that is left to us. Analyzing Pasolini’s film Salò alongside his essay “Repudiation,” the chapter tracks the bewildering intensity of the demand made, and the incendiary effect created, when we begin to think the unthinkable and accept the unacceptable...