... In this chapter, Boucher argues that Slavoj Žižek’s theory of the traumatic kernel of the Real at the center of social antagonism provides the key to understanding what is for contemporary critics Shakespeare’s most problematic play, The Merchant of Venice . Homing in on the disturbing affect...

... Slavoj Žižek ideology social antagonism anti-Semitism The Merchant of Venice ...

... of the Real” rife with the power of subjectivization and subjection. Slavoj Žižek romantic sublime ridiculous sublime Jacques Lacan G. W. F. Hegel In this chapter, Boucher argues that Slavoj Žižek’s theory of the traumatic kernel of the Real at the center of social antagonism provides the key...

... Chapter 7 discusses the geologic context of the emergence of biopolitics through Elizabeth Grosz’s concept of “geopower,” Elizabeth Povinelli’s articulation of social (re)production through “geontopower,” and the Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter’s critique of the raciality of biopolitics...

... This entry presents a genealogy of “acoustemology,” a 1992 coinage by the author to conjoin “acoustics” and “epistemology” and theorize sound as a way of knowing. The genealogy is traced theoretically as well as ethnographically. In terms of lineages of philosophy and social theory...

... within the workers’ community, seeking in this way to demonstrate the complexity of the workers’ set of experiences. This chapter also aims to investigate processes of building relationships of solidarity, as well as those of antagonism, among local residents. Differences of ethnicity, generation, gender...

... Chapter 3 probes the complex place of the secular in colonial epistemology in conversation with Frantz Fanon. It discusses Fanon’s complicated relation with religion. Against the prevailing narrative that emphasizes Fanon’s antagonism toward religion, the chapter argues that Fanon does...

... the sphere of embodiment that transsexuality bears on—where “embodiment” signals the social dimension of signification that any body partakes in. Marxist theory reification identity embodiment To refuse the gender binary is a criminal act, and trans antagonism—a violence that manifests along...

... ground his theorization of the insidious regime of “heteroperpetuity,” which he defines as encompassing a range of political imperatives, social arrangements, and cultural practices and productions mobilized to protect and perpetuate heteronormative dominion. Highlighting its hegemony over black drag...

... autonomy movement have argued that Camba Nation’s founding was not a simple response to the increasing visibility of firebrand social leaders like Felipe Quispe advocating Indian self-government or Evo Morales promoting trade-union power. In any event, these cruceño leaders came to believe, by 2001...

... for a consideration of antiracist social formations that arose in the 1980s and 1990s and the transmission of anti-imperialist and antiracist ideas through popular music and the technologies of the mixtape and boombox, Von Eschen explores LKJ’s influential sonic linkage of black struggles in Britain to those...

... a source of division and fractiousness into an opportunity for mutual felicity. Closely read, Johnson’s poem showcases repression’s ordinariness; historicized, it showcases the situationally specific antagonisms that repression successfully hides from sight: the disturbing experience of sharing a form...

...Poetics Chapter 3 probes the complex place of the secular in colonial epistemology in conversation with Frantz Fanon. It discusses Fanon’s complicated relation with religion. Against the prevailing narrative that emphasizes Fanon’s antagonism toward religion, the chapter argues that Fanon...

...Tensions, In Solution This chapter takes as its point of departure the question of how affect theories are inflected and influenced by the emergence across the social sciences and humanities of the elements as a series of disparate matters of concern. First, elements are compositional...

... conceived of this epochal struggle as a pachakuti —an upheaval of time and space, a transformation of the political and natural world. In this period, Evo Morales and the Mallku maintained a perennial tug-of-war for leadership within the social movements. In January 2001, after powerful waves of rural...