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... highlights the enduring impact and unintended consequences of Wetli's scholarly work. The author develops the concept of the “racial laboratory,” to show how White Western scientific knowledge crystallizes time-worn tropes of Black and Brown criminality into scientific “facts,” which then take on a life...

... highlights how the logic of slave patrols, rooted in the sadistic violence against Black people, continues to shape the contemporary racial laboratory. It explores how this logic perpetuates the dehumanization of Black people, allowing for the deployment of excessive force by law enforcement. Through...

... that the experience of serving as a living laboratory for the alienation of everyday habits as culture has been remarkably transformative and should be considered as one particular site of shifting racial politics in a nation in which a variety of related projects are occurring at the same time. Thus a recognition...

...A Living Laboratory<subtitle>Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social</subtitle> In the seventeenth century, Spinoza asked the question of why people fight for their servitude as if it was salvation. Spinoza's question fundamentally reoriented the question of ideology away from...

... How are we to understand Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century? Is it a racist ruse, a stubborn residue of racial pseudoscience? Is it something that exists but that should not be allowed to have social or political relevance? Or is it a potentially empowering force...

... translated research out of the academic laboratory and offered Hollywood filmmakers a glimpse of VR’s narrative potential. LA-centered institutions, including the University of Southern California and the Sundance Institute, played significant roles in VR’s development prior to Facebook’s acquisition...

... the “laboratory of post-modernity” in his classic book Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (1995). hybrid aesthetics urban curation Rosa-Linda Fregoso’s impressionistic essay draws on her memories, notes, and reflections of her years of work as cultural worker...

... Nonny de la Peña, who translated research out of the academic laboratory and offered Hollywood filmmakers a glimpse of VR’s narrative potential. LA-centered institutions, including the University of Southern California and the Sundance Institute, played significant roles in VR’s development prior...