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... in real time? The riddle of communication is solved by showing how transnational business practices rely on the transmutation of cultural communication into global communication through the processes of neutralization and mimesis. Neutralization refers to attempts at pruning unwanted cultural particulars...

... This essay argues that Ambedkar’s conception of an Indian nation consisting of Puruskrut (privileged) and Bahiskrut Bharat (excluded India) helps us comprehend the riddle of nationalism and its ideological framework—the rhetorical claim for social equality that sustains spatial practices...

... state that is riddled with corruption. Notwithstanding the fragmentation of knowledge and hazy legalities that department engineers themselves must navigate in providing water to the rapidly changing city, Mumbai residents remain convinced that the water department possesses complete knowledge...

... differently or the image makes us hear something differently. The unspoken or unsolvable riddles of sound in the films make the viewer active and complicit, it is argued, trying to make connections and find echoes, and becoming an active sense-maker. The films are thus often constituted by brilliant surprises...

... While studying at Tuskegee Institute, Ralph Ellison learns about “the little man behind the stove,” a figure at the crossroads of process and performance. Miss Hazel Harrison, his piano teacher, imparts this riddle after he fails his trumpet recital. This teachable moment is double: Harrison...

... The Pacific Ocean extending from coastal California to Austronesia, as well as to Japan and China, has become a site of global capitalist dynamism and transpacific investment; it is also riddled with political, territorial, and commercial conflicts that the “Pacific Rim” needs to conjure...

... in the massacre of several hundred student protestors in Tlatelolco Plaza in October 1968. The massacre, along with a series of dramatic social, political, and natural events—the disastrous earthquakes that struck Mexico City in 1985, the fraud-riddled presidential campaign of 1988, the signing of NAFTA...

... (Johnny crawl; Roxlee, 1986); Bugtong: Sigaw ni Lalaki (Riddle: Shout of man; R. J. Leyran, 1989); and Class Picture (Tito & Tito, 2011). informal archives Video 48 Kalampag Tracking Agency experimental and avant-garde cinema video stores ...

... does not aestheticize trauma and suffering; rather Siopis’s use of found home movie footage works to riddle this historical trauma into critical consciousness that, following Ettinger, might become a “transport-station of trauma.” Siopis’s film work uncannily echoes the process, it is argued...

...Worlding Pacific Poesis The Pacific Ocean extending from coastal California to Austronesia, as well as to Japan and China, has become a site of global capitalist dynamism and transpacific investment; it is also riddled with political, territorial, and commercial conflicts that the “Pacific...