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... agentic attunement drives ego object self-formation ...

... and mind. Not only does psychoanalysis show how the development of the self relies on interactions with the external world from the very beginning of development, but the four psychologies of drives, ego, objects, and self-formation are intertwined. Agentic attunement captures the power of paying attention...

... Consciousness and the formation of the subject-self, or subjectification, can work against the state’s intentions for schooling. (European) humanism’s positivist articulation of the self consorted with patriarchy and imperialism to justify and advance nationalism, racism, conquest, colonization...

... in the 1980s and 1990s by a Chicago-based network of antiprison revolutionaries connected to the Black Liberation Army. The essay focuses on two self-published books originating in this formation: Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai (1983) and Night Vision: Illuminating War and Class...

... of movement. Specifically, the chapter shows how an embedded failure in the system of marks that supposes to regulate movement undoes the possibility of full citizenship. To understand this system the chapter unfolds a genealogy of self-regulation that—it argues—is essential to the formation of liberal...

... Chapter 3 examines Horizontes , a 1913 painting by Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona that has played an important role in the Colombian national imaginary and processes of subject formation, idealizing a settler mythos and a national sense of self predicated in European political and intellectual...

... This chapter analyzes Senghor’s parliamentary campaign to transform the Fourth Republic’s French Union into a truly democratic federation, a union of peoples that would include former colonies as freely associated member states in a novel transcontinental political formation. Such a formation...

... This chapter considers how the self-released cassette contributed to independent rock music and culture, serving as a means of distribution and a symbol of community. Cassette culture emerged in the 1980s as a network of musical outsiders who communicated by mail. As different as cassette...

..., work as co-productive (analytic) forces of Native/Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. In doing so, new kinds of questions are being generated about imperial-colonial histories, identities, and social formations, Native/Indigenous modes of reckoning social relationship...

... Mutual aid societies of Black freedmen and enslaved individuals, particularly Bantu-speaking groups from what is now Angola and Mozambique, came together to build municipal welfare and self-governance organizations known as brotherhoods or confraternal organizations. These groups emerged...

...? The answer is “self-synchronization.” This is when information is so rapidly and effectively distributed throughout the “battlespace” of asymmetrical warfare that even the lowest level “battlespace entities” (human and nonhuman) are empowered to decide autonomously. This impossible ideal is reached when...

... Where does music reside within the broader category of sound? Perhaps the most revealing aspect of this question is that it is rarely asked, as the qualities that make certain subsets of sounds “musical” are so often presumed to be self-evident. Music’s omnipresence and widespread...

... the importance and insufficiency of state recognition in the making of alternative political orders. If the state cannot be ignored, due to its concentration of power, it also cannot be the ethical horizon for envisioning formations of governance. Reading this decision alongside the opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma...

... of archaeology and genealogy and his theory of discourse as event, and discursive formations. It summarizes his debate with Jacques Derrida and his effort to understand discourse contextually. Lecture 29, “Foucault and Knowledge/Power,” presents Michel Foucault’s work in its more concrete studies...

.... The chapter offers several rereadings: first, of Dutch society at the time, with its many sites in which the women were exposed to images of black women and their sexuality; next, of racial science and its obsession with black women’s genitalia. Ultimately, the case study shows that the concepts of self...

... This chapter explores new formations of authority, citizenship, and care that emerged to deal with breakdown in the city’s property system. It analyzes competing views for how de facto public lands should be distributed and used. As the city struggled to manage all the property to which it held...

... around representations of the black body. Differentiating strategies in image-text work by Mitra Tabrizian, Adrian Piper, Donald Rodney, and Carrie Mae Weems; performative photographic tableaux by Ajamu and Lyle Ashton Harris; the questioning of self-portraiture in Sonia Boyce’s collages and Glenn...

...Transpacific Conjugations<subtitle>Unmaking and Remaking Worlds</subtitle> The aim of this chapter is to provoke a situated turn, or eco-conversion, toward a cultural-political way of thinking about worlding Pacific Rim cities as complex environmental formations connected to common resources...

... the 1999 Internet novella Huizi to examine a related set of issues of intimacy, self-expression, community formation, and sexual identity. Published under the pseudonym Xiaohe, Huizi depicts the relationship between two boys as they mature and become aware of their same-sex desires, and the result...

... This chapter explores the significance of Garveyism to informing Midwest-linked, nationally influential, globally connected early Black Power formations during the early 1960s. A new generation of Black militants in heartland-connected groups, like the Revolutionary Action Movement, looked...