Search Results for suspense

... This chapter examines how South Asian domestic workers’ experiences of migration in the Gulf are characterized by “suspension”—of their being a part of, yet apart from, their “work households” in the Gulf and their “family households” in South Asia. This chapter discusses how domestic workers...

... that both texts evoke states of suspension and disorientation that reject the straight lines of metronormative narratives of gay and immigrant success and “the good life.” This chapter also engages the poetry of the Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali, whose work similarly evokes an alternative...

...From Governmental Collapse to Pachakuti’s Suspension, 2003–2005 ...

... hesitation morality silence suspension ...

... Suspense Anthropotechnics Social Systems Patricia Highsmith Henry James Peter Sloterdijk Professionalism ...

.... Via crime stories and crime films, and belief systems such as Scientology, this part details the medium of suspense as a worldview—focusing on one the suspense novel’s great practitioners, Patricia Highsmith, and on one of the suspense motion picture’s great strategists, Alfred Hitchcock. A central...

... This part sets out the premises of the official world and describes the emergence of a self-reporting form of society: its cultural technologies and its aesthetic techniques. It defines the epoch of social systems and our indoor social life. The chapter shows how suspense becomes a world...

... This chapter explores forms in which the afterlife of military service in the Yugoslav People’s Army manifests itself amid the ruins of Yugoslavia, working against the stillness of the aftermath and questioning and destabilizing it. These are forms signaled by silence, hesitation, and suspension...

... stories and crime films, and belief systems such as Scientology, this part details the medium of suspense as a worldview—focusing on one the suspense novel’s great practitioners, Patricia Highsmith, and on one of the suspense motion picture’s great strategists, Alfred Hitchcock. A central focus...

... This chapter proceeds from the counterintuitive contention that stasis is a continual balancing of multiple forces in equilibrium, a temporal modality of diasporic motion held in suspension, hovering between stillness and movement. It juxtaposes late nineteenth-century ethnographic photos...

... This part sets out the premises of the official world and describes the emergence of a self-reporting form of society: its cultural technologies and its aesthetic techniques. It defines the epoch of social systems and our indoor social life. The chapter shows how suspense becomes a world...

... The analysis undertaken by Uno Kōzō on the question of the (im)possibility or “ nihil of reason” ( muri ) characterizing the commodification of labor power operates as a theoretical pivot that exposes two exteriorities, two suspensions. On the one hand this moment discloses the theoretical...