...Reforming the Workplace and Reducing Community Hazards ...

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... This chapter considers two of the key concepts of the seminal sound theorist Pierre Schaeffer: reduced listening and the sound object. The former indicates an effort to listen without attending to the context or causes of what is heard. Its correlate is the sound object: sound conceived...

... that subaltern stories and myths can hold the subaltern world together by making the outside world recognize subalterns as autonomous subjects with a viable world, it also gestures to a force of worlding that cannot be reduced into a divine force. Amitav Ghosh subaltern Sundarbans environmentalism...

... be reduced to the penis as such. But neither is it the bodiless organ so dear to a certain western psychoanalytical tradition. This chapter discusses the phallus as that which has the peculiarity of manifesting itself as turgidity, as thrust or eruption, and as intrusion. There can be no speaking about...

... and Rodchenko are examined in detail, attention is also given to the theoretical or “aesthetic” supporters of constructivism or, at least, of the radical art such as Arvatov, Brik, Gan, Punin, and Tarabukin—arguments being that a primary aspiration of the constructivists was to reduce art to a formula, to make...

... This chapter begins with a critique of the tendency, common to Schmitt and Agamben (and their followers), to reduce the phenomenon of sovereignty to a largely unhistorical structural category. Opposing itself to the recent critical trend toward understanding sovereignty as the logical outcome...

... for physical well-being. While night work offers employment with obvious economic well-being, it also indicates a simultaneous isolation from the regular daytime social life, a fragmentation of family life when it is difficult to be together with one’s spouse and children, reducing their social well-being...

... beneficial to gdp than directly investing in family planning because education was correlated with both reduced future fertility and increased wages. Through these targeted campaigns to invest in a girl, the practices of the economization of life were financialized, becoming preemptive and speculative...

... and access to information and reducing their ability to maintain connections with family and friends. For the economically precarious, globalization causes their relationship with time to slow and their relationship with space to expand. breadlines waiting urban space time globalization ...

... a theoretical physics through which we see how the Cartesian subject, in order to emerge as the subject of the enunciation, must be reduced to “a disposable piece of shit” in the form of the subject of the enunciated. The chapter’s thesis is that this split of the subject is also an intervention in the critique...

... of modern mining that branded their practices as more socially and environmentally responsible than those of earlier operations. Meanwhile, critics of the Yanacocha Mining Company argued that mining operations (typically located at the headwaters of the river basin) reduce the quantity and quality of water...

... of reproduction. As the chapter further explores, these processes also engender everyday conversions marked by emergent forms of affinities and belongings that are not reducible to the binary logic of inclusion/exclusion, or to familial or ethnonational forms. affective labor domestic work households...

...; and antiquarianism practiced by historians who claimed to restore vestiges of the past to their authentic condition. The chapter shows how Cuvier used these three cultures to justify his reconstruction of extinct animals and to reduce the ideological tensions generated by this reconstruction. Cuvier...

... and court decisions enabling the deportation of U.S. citizens, a scenario that can be understood as aliens creating and using laws for deporting citizens. Jacqueline Stevens uses insights from Jacques Derrida and describes these legally staged events as “apologues,” a form of rhetoric that reduces...

... a deidealized approach based on the work of Kadji Amin. It demonstrates how transmisogyny and the reproductive imperative work in the tale to contain Agar's dangerous fluid masculinity. The reading fixes on the workings of “fixing” ( sābit honā ) in the qissah and shows how Agar is reduced to a singular...

...Listening, Expressing This chapter considers two of the key concepts of the seminal sound theorist Pierre Schaeffer: reduced listening and the sound object. The former indicates an effort to listen without attending to the context or causes of what is heard. Its correlate is the sound object...