... This chapter focuses on the development of constructivism in Soviet Russia during the 1920s. It passes through various phases of the movement, touching upon notions of “pure” form, utilitarianism, and agitational or political application. While the achievements of artists such as Popova...

... or utilitarian concerns. However, the environmental mitigation strategies of the mining company rest on a logic of equivalence that makes the consequences of mining activity seem commensurable with the company’s environmental management plans. Equivalences shift the focus of discussion toward technical solutions...

... development of the wellhead over time until the construction of an aqueduct in the nineteenth century. The wellhead was then transformed from a utilitarian necessity into a collector’s item, with the finest examples dispersed to museums, parks, and private estates throughout the world. wellhead vera...

... state attempts to turn its forces to utilitarian, profane ends. Sonoran Desert Tohono O’odham Prevention through Deterrence sacred land vanishing time ...

..., characterizing his communicative theory as following a medical logic of proposing a diagnosis of incommunicability and a treatment regime of imposing communicable order. His prescription for producing medical knowledge also rested implicitly on his referential, utilitarian theory of language. The chapter traces...

... Liberal utilitarian and humanitarian arguments provided for the innovations in colonial government that administered the conduct of labor, movement, and trade in the post–Opium War Chinese treaty ports, and criminal justice in the new Crown Colony of Hong Kong. This chapter discusses John Stuart...

... in a sea of utilitarian treatments of water. As attention turns to the mounting problems associated with overuse, contamination, and inequitable distribution of water, water politics often appears to involve only logics of scarcity and need. Critics often depict waterworks that seek to escape this logic...

... of utilitarian treatments of water. As attention turns to the mounting problems associated with overuse, contamination, and inequitable distribution of water, water politics often appears to involve only logics of scarcity and need. Critics often depict waterworks that seek to escape this logic, including...

... and landscapes through relations that encompassed, but were not reducible to, economic or utilitarian concerns. However, the environmental mitigation strategies of the mining company rest on a logic of equivalence that makes the consequences of mining activity seem commensurable with the company’s environmental...

... referential, utilitarian theory of language. The chapter traces the roots of Locke’s work on communicability in white supremacy, colonialism, and slavery and how it positioned white, European, elite men as embodying communicability, even as women, workers, and racialized populations could barely aspire...

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