... Often described as “Africa’s laboratory,” the Gambia, one of the smallest countries in Africa, has offered a site of medical research and public health experimentation for the better part of a century. Drawing from archival and ethnographic materials, this chapter explores the distinct ways...

... Jankélévitch presents Bergson’s idea that the plenitude of life contradicts the absurd idea that the Nothing is the smallest conceivable existence from which the real could be pieced together. Something always precedes nothing, in human thought and action as in the cosmos. Bergson’s creation...

... itself on the verge of an event. A perceptual arms race ensues. The ontopower mobilized by the apparatus of war is under intense pressure, exerted by its own operative logic, to telescope into an interval smaller than the smallest perceivable, and to leverage processual surplus-value from...

... malaria control project, and questions what role the public may retain in para-statal configurations in global health. real-world experiment malaria corporate social responsibility Ghana global health Often described as “Africa’s laboratory,” the Gambia, one of the smallest countries...

... it—or even perceives itself on the verge of an event. A perceptual arms race ensues. The ontopower mobilized by the apparatus of war is under intense pressure, exerted by its own operative logic, to telescope into an interval smaller than the smallest perceivable, and to leverage processual surplus-value...