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...Manisha Basu This essay reads exemplary instances of the fictional work of Indian novelist R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) as expressions of critical anachronism in a world literary marketplace that, despite claiming diversity as a global, even transcendental, value, remains committed to both...

...Donald E. Pease Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 9 of 227 Doing Justice to C. L. R. James’s Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways Donald E...

... are accurate and compatible, and what true compatibility might look like. To answer this final question, I turn to recent debates about form and formalization and A. R. Ammons’s book-length poem, Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1974). Book Reviewed: Fletcher Angus , The Topological Imagination: Spheres...

... the globalization of racial thought in its latest civilizationist guise. To establish this present moment as the contested future of the long tradition of antiracist humanism outlined by Gilroy, the essay draws on the thought of Erich Auerbach and C. L. R. James to develop a schema that firmly anchors...

... brief “Mattina” leads to consideration of Dickinson, through the critical encounters with her work by R. P. Blackmur and Lionel Trilling. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Emily Dickinson Aristotle Lionel Trilling Giuseppe Ungaretti Gustave Flaubert References Aristotle...

...Alexander R. Galloway; Jason R. LaRivière This essay superimposes technical definitions of data compression onto philosophical discussions of aesthetics. Two basic approaches are addressed: abstract compression and generic compression. The first, outlined well in the work of Bernard Stiegler...

...- This essay was meant to be included in ‘‘Critical Secularism a special issue of boundary 2 (vol. 31, no. 2 [Summer 2004 edited by Aamir R. Mufti, but, because of space limitations, publication was deferred until this time. Ed. Unless otherwise noted, translations are the authors’. boundary 2 31:3...

...R. Radhakrishnan Duke University Press 2006 When Is Democracy Political? R. Radhakrishnan My purpose in this essay is twofold: (1) to initiate a critique of the relationship of politics and ‘‘the political’’ to the concept known...

...Sami R. Khatib This essay elaborates on the dialectics of practice and play in Walter Benjamin’s pedagogical writings. Arguing that his earlier politics of “pure means” is still operative in his later materialist pedagogy of proletarian purposiveness, the essay follows Benjamin’s project of undoing...

...Zahid R. Chaudhary Through a psychoanalytic reading of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing , this essay considers the role of fantasy in genocidal Cold War violence. Considering both Oppenheimer’s film and also Frantz Fanon’s clinical case studies as investigations into impunity...

...Aamir R. Mufti C. P. Cavafy was a writer of the British Empire whose situation resembles that of other colonial writers and should be examined in that context, as well as in the light of the contradictory logic of Orientalism-Anglicism. In the modern West's interest in the late Hellenistic era...

...R. A. Judy Abstract This interview with Anthony Bogues was conducted over two days in March 2021 as part of a larger project initiated by Paul Bové, editor of boundary 2 , to constitute an archive, for the historical record, of the intellectual formation of members of the boundary 2 Editorial...

...Aamir R. Mufti Duke University Press 2007 Fanatics in Europa Just in case we had slept through much of the news from Europe over the last year, the subverted plot to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic this summer with liquid explosives served as a nice little wake-up call...

...M. A. R. Habib One of the central concerns of Islamic scholars today is the need to engage in a rereading of the various “texts” that form the core of Islamic doctrine and practice: the Qur'an; the Sunna, or example of the prophet Muhammad; the hadith , or sayings of the prophet; the tradition...

...R. A. Judy “Literature,” Orhan Pamuk once remarked, “is the greatest treasure we, humanity, have to discuss and to understand ourselves; and now, the most popular, most intelligent, most flexible form of literature today, in the last two hundred years in fact, is the great art of the novel...

...Aamir R. Mufti This introduction explains the structure of the special issue “Antinomies of the Postsecular,” which is divided into two discrete parts. It also briefly summarizes the contributions included in the issue. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available...

...Aamir R. Mufti This essay argues that the “postsecular” tendency in contemporary humanities and social sciences relies disproportionately on contemporary political Islam to make its case for a “return of religion.” Furthermore, postsecularism generates a highly misleading view of political Islam...

...R. Radhakrishnan © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Grievable Life, Accountable Theory R. Radhakrishnan In a world structured in dominance, is it viable, justifiable, and “con- scionable” to indulge in ontological thinking? What...