... The book’s conclusion asks what black feminism might tell us about the figure of the black paternal. While much of black studies scholarship has valorized care as a mode of collective survival, this coda develops the keyword of tenderness to theorize black paternal labor and affect...

... as a system ruled by connaissance qua ubiquitous valorization, the chapter explores the ways in which Žižek, drawing on Lacan, can be seen to develop a critique of capitalism based on savoir. crisis discourse libidinal capitalism Lacan ...

... for understanding the centrality of the soldier to national ideals of masculine personhood by sketching the history of the valorization of soldier bodies in America and the exceptional worth vested in them in the contemporary moral landscape. This exceptional status offers an acute lens through which to think about...

... Chapter 3 undertakes an untimely investigation into the valorization of democracy in the dominant political imaginary. Drawing on the resources of a radicalized form of historicism, it demonstrates that this is a modern phenomenon and resituates democratophilia in a triumphalist logic of history...

... and nationalist politics in which it was embroiled through its transformation from a monumental to an environmental practice that valorizes heritage landscapes as depoliticized totalities. The chapter is anchored around the practices through which a variety of stakeholders repoliticize the class-based...

... around the microcelebrity of blogger Glennon Doyle Melton. Specifically, this chapter argues that these mothering communities offer women individualized solidarities , where the aim of collectivity is to privatize happiness, that is, to stabilize and valorize individual nuclear families. Mothers feel...

... This chapter situates how the Archive for New Poetry (ANP) at the University of California San Diego began as a segregated repository through racialized scholarship that valorized forms of “newness.” The chapter examines the financial provenance of the ANP in order to shed light on the politics...

... observatories in key development areas of the North Coast, including Hartley Bay, Dodge Cove, and Prince Rupert. The digital sound objects collected by Smart Oceans valorize sound in terms of informational functionality and not listening. Drawing on theories of enclosure from Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago and Mark...

... in 1998, a new battleship museum, joined in 2006 by the Pacific Aviation Museum, launched a new era in Pacific War tourism that was followed closely in 2010 by the expansion of the Arizona memorial’s museum and visitor center complex, renamed the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument...

... globalization. It considers the bifurcated sensings and place attachments that would result, whereby residents would critique the abstract sounds of port expansion while valorizing fading bucolic sounds of nature. Building on Henri Lefebvre’s concept of state space and Mishuana Goeman’s settler grammars...

... position in Indonesian literary and ideological debates of this time. To do this, the synopsis repositions Wright’s defense of politically partisan writing in support of an oppressed people as the struggle of humanity in general, lest Wright’s valorization of African American writers’ confrontation...

... is a valorization of improvisatory practices. hooks is not widely acknowledged as an art critic, but she has woven aesthetic judgements and considerations into much of her writing. Because she is taken to be commenting on sociopolitical matters of race, decolonization, and liberation, however, her attention...

... by the city’s residents. He depicts his Indian adversaries as cruel and savage, yet cannot fail to marvel at their valor and tenacity in battle. After the protracted war, Brigadier Segurola was made the first intendant of the entire district of La Paz. A play in verse staged in his honor in 1786 praised...

... “synthesis,” and their valorization of the power of a Nietzschean vitalism. Using the work of Mikhail Bakunin, Max Stirner, and Renzo Novatore to situate the development of our contemporary “savage ontology,” Noys then turns to a consideration of Deleuze via Alain Badiou to demonstrate that the classical...

... and the identity and nationalist politics in which it was embroiled through its transformation from a monumental to an environmental practice that valorizes heritage landscapes as depoliticized totalities. The chapter is anchored around the practices through which a variety of stakeholders repoliticize...

... of capitalism as a system ruled by connaissance qua ubiquitous valorization, the chapter explores the ways in which Žižek, drawing on Lacan, can be seen to develop a critique of capitalism based on savoir. crisis discourse libidinal capitalism Lacan ...

... of an “ethics of love” that she develops in other writings through the concept of social aesthetics, and that her view of art making in many respects is a valorization of improvisatory practices. hooks is not widely acknowledged as an art critic, but she has woven aesthetic judgements and considerations...