... the current literature on Duch answers this question, usually by emphasizing the “man” argument. The “ordinary men” thesis, however, is somewhat insipid, suggesting a sort of modal personality devoid of complexity. The epilogue considers a nuanced explanation through a discussion of the “effacing conviction...

... for having proposed antiphilosophy as a subdiscipline in which all analysts would have to be trained. Yet from Badiou’s point of view not only Lacan but undoubtedly Žižek as well would have to be read as antiphilosophers. The chapter aims to sort out the stakes behind this debate. philosophy...

... be less clear now. This chapter asks why this may be so and why this moment marks and demands new thinking. It argues that our understandings of “the carnal,” with an emphasis more on the sexual than “on the flesh,” have been too constricted to account for the sorts of bodily intrusions and manipulations...

... , is a virtual blueprint of the media union of modern society. In effect, systems theory through the shortcut of kitsch. The recent novels of Tom McCarthy-- particularly Remainder , a crime novel of sorts too—provide another live blueprint of art in the systems epoch, and outline what social and aesthetic...

... of an ongoing struggle to find new ways of thinking, working, and explaining within the parameters set by the tools of genomics. Postgenomics emerges from a tension between the constraints of specific tools and methods and biologists’ attempts to draw new sorts of models and findings from them. This concluding...

... sorts of disasters loom, family can readily depreciate or be depreciated, so mothers must continually work to appreciate it anew by becoming ever more mamapreneurial. Mamapreneurialism includes not only enterprising economic activities like online couponing and work-at-home sales but also a battery...

... of the dialectic. It is at the intersection of the two currents—guarding simultaneously against dialectical closure and uncritical multiplicity—that a radicalized and decolonized dialectics can emerge. Finally, C. L. R. James provides—in The Black Jacobins —a powerful example for the sort of comparative political...

... At a time when students in academic institutions of all sorts were engaged in the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement, the other war on campus was the debate about the moral use of knowledge. In this chapter the setting is the Claremont Colleges, a unique consortium of seven...

... of the Coyolxauhqui imperative, nepantla, el cenote, and the imaginal. Particularly important is Anzaldúa’s expansion of nepantla to include additional epistemological dimensions; nepantla also functions as form of consciousness, an actant of sorts. the psychological dimensions of writing, and Anzaldúa’s own writing...

..., and social forms? The chapter proposes that the intellectual history of the debate on Japanese capitalism, and Uno Kōzō’s theoretical attempts to overcome this debate, should be treated as a sort of prehistory of the contemporary debates around “alternative modernity,” the rethinking of the transition...

... Thistlewood, written accounts of the slave trade, runaway slave notices, and cartes de visite are analyzed in this chapter to argue that the history of branding in transatlantic slavery anticipates contemporary social sorting. Using Frantz Fanon’s concept of epidermalization, this chapter charts a genealogy...

... supplement to all sorts of exchange and expression and foreground the question of untranslatability, that is, the persistence of an insurgent element within language that resists its reduction into instruments for systems of meaning, ideologies, and warfare. historical imagination translation studies...

... by approximately four thousand people into patrimony even as it incorporates those residents into its social services bureaucracy. It follows as IPAC seeks to sort out legal title to the buildings and establishes an indemnification program that residents rapidly overwhelm, creating fictitious families, registering...