...Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future This chapter focuses on the movement of Bundu dia Kongo in the current post-Mobutu era, highlighting how they use the body in mobilizing large groups of people for concerted action. Bundu dia Kongo, a Kongo politico-religious-nationalist group...

... jazz deadness mediation re-performance ...

... In September 2007, jazz pianist Art Tatum “performed” in front of a live audience, despite his death in 1956. This 2007 re-performance was realized using technology invented by Zenph Innovations that analyzes recordings to separate performances from their recorded media. Zenph then reanimates...

... “performed” in front of a live audience, despite his death in 1956. This 2007 re-performance was realized using technology invented by Zenph Innovations that analyzes recordings to separate performances from their recorded media. Zenph then reanimates the “data” with a Disklavier Pro digital piano...

... standard accounts of realism and representation, proposing the concept of rendering as a performative theory that can grapple with the ways that molecular models not only re-present the molecular world, but also materialize some aspects of living matter, if not others. It documents the anxieties expressed...

... This chapter reveals how women perform aesthetic labor in material and immaterial realms to (re-)produce and (re-)interpret the meanings of living a holy life. Regulations on dress demonstrate the standard of respectable appearance. Examining the aesthetics of presentation, we gain insight...

... Chapter 1 focuses on C. L. R James, whose roving political life has made him an exemplary diasporic figure. Re-reading James’s famous account in Beyond a Boundary about his early formation in Trinidad alongside his writings about America—in letters to Constance Webb and the essays that become...

.... This chapter seeks to trouble standard accounts of realism and representation, proposing the concept of rendering as a performative theory that can grapple with the ways that molecular models not only re-present the molecular world, but also materialize some aspects of living matter, if not others...

... displaced, re-collected, and reembodied. Her art addresses the ways homely and unhomely corporealities are brought forward in living enactments of displacement and containment. corporeality belonging relationality ...

.... And on the other hand, readers can identify a corresponding form of “re-transcendentalization” as the locus of critical insight is transposed to the consciousness of the artist, exemplified by Joseph Kosuth. The chapter explores the tensions between these positions as they unfold in the contrasting methodologies...

..., and an exercise in form and method through which queer desires in Pakistan can be (re-)thought. queer desire female intimacy auto-ethnography queer Muslim women This chapter engages the form and method of the biographical dictionary or tazkira . While historians have used biographical dictionaries...

.... The rehabilitation program combed/searched for birangonas only to comb/hide them and re-member them in independent Bangladesh. rehabilitation sovereignty state orientalizing re-member The chapter locates the accounts of male violations by the West Pakistani army within the historical and colonial...

... in the recent work of the critical philosopher Giorgio Agamben, whose influential notion of “bare life” invisibilizes the ingenious agency of abject subjects. The chapter looks at how migrant domestic workers re-create their own spaces of inclusion and “rights” within the working households and produce traces...

... of what Australian citizenship is when holding the legislatively conferred status of citizen is not. The High Court of Australia in Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs; Ex parte Ame (2005) felt compelled to use characterizations that devalued the status of Australian...

... self and other. And on the other hand, readers can identify a corresponding form of “re-transcendentalization” as the locus of critical insight is transposed to the consciousness of the artist, exemplified by Joseph Kosuth. The chapter explores the tensions between these positions as they unfold...

... of approaching the world; as a way of approaching study of our indigenous past; and as a stance that supports the whole project of (re)establishing Hawaiian political and intellectual history. In “Moolelo Hawaii Kahiko,” Poepoe thus simultaneously examines works of moʻokūʻauhau and demonstrates his moʻokūʻauhau...

... trauma fragments and disrupts experience, not only for the bodies subject to it but for the technical system through which trauma is (re)produced. Algorithmic trauma manifests ruptures of time, space, and knowability via processes of mediation that move through and between the corporeal, technological...

... disco Grace Jones Kid Creole Arthur Russell The Saint rivals Flamingo and 12 West closed during 1981, unable to hold on to their core dancers in the face of Bruce Mailman’s recently opened venue. Mailman attempted to re-create the collectivity of the gay male dance floor by employing a roster...