... in the Wilderness’’ (RC, 69, 107) and gradually eases his dread by spending decades setting up a series of enclosures that slowly cover the landscape. It is not only Crusoe who fears uncultivated land and achieves order by enclosing it; Daniel Defoe himself was a great believer in the power of enclosures...

... Gourgouris and Emily Apter. Mufti / Critical Secularism 3 moments at which thought and culture become frozen, congealed, thing- like, and self-enclosed—hence the significance for him of Lukács’s notion of reification.3 At no point is secular used in his work...

... presume not to know, because I would have to imagine (therefore, know) what it is I don’t or cannot know. In this respect, a dog- matic atheism, according to which God’s nonexistence would be positively proposed, would entail a self-­defeating principle, entirely self-­enclosed in the regime...

... mass of the continental United States. The Homeland Bush invoked to ‘‘authorize’’ these emergency actions did not designate either an enclosed territory or an imaginable home. The Homeland secured by the emergency state instead...

... becoming involved not with a self- consistent text and author but rather with a ‘‘criticizable’’ field of textual rela- tions that refuses to be enclosed by these classical categories. The essays presented here attest...

... and the subject of the photo- graph. In an enclosed booth, the ‘‘actant’’ poses for a camera that automati- cally takes, develops, and prints the photograph. This apparatus disposes of the photographer, replacing the human eye with a mechanical one. The use of this apparatus was conceived to attract...

..., risks, dangers, and energies of metamorphosis as we have elaborated. Thus transfigured, broken and bounded selves would become members of a multisourced communal unity Brown calls “love's body,” in effect dying out as an estranged, lone, possessive, and enclosed bodily form, to become made new via...

... detailed articulations of whatever is enclosed in a field of study. The ethical burden of this double sense, always evident in this book, as it fills out an unfolding picture of fascinating minutiae and widening hori- zons, is that the scientist must maintain his independence to record...

... in The Arcades Project summons up topographical contradictions like a Möbius strip: ‘‘Arcades are houses or passages having y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 110 of 224 no outside—like the dream 2 By their very nature of enclosing an alley- way, or, rather, forcing...

... the African Americans in an unnamed southern state decide spontaneously to leave. These actions are individual and, crucially, unorganized. Kelley’s mysterious figures depart “enclosed in invisible coffins, no longer having the power of communication or even possessing anything to communicate...

... for such enterprises’’ (AP, 3). A second section, extruded from the 1939 version, ‘‘Daguerre, or the Panoramas occupies the photo- graphic frame and the space enclosed by the parabolic panorama; sec- tion 3, ‘‘Grandville, or the World...

... finished.” The regulation of the day, the vows of silence and obedience, the group meditation and communal chanting, the enclosed rural space (no visitors are allowed): but for the widespread naturism, one could almost mistake the Earthsong gathering for a kind of cloister, a part-­time...

.... In this subtraction of interpretation, the positions of the cen- tral powers, which confine difference to the ghetto, coincide strangely with nationalism, which encloses difference behind a wall. Globalization, the postmodern opening...

... and analytical lens and thus beyond its current deployment as a mere shorthand for the postsocialist space of Eastern Europe—a space presumed to be a concrete, bounded reality, or an inert, self-­enclosed territory.2 Postsocialist Eastern Europe is here an occasion for bringing to light aspects...

... of postmodern fiction with its paranoid logic and self- enclosed games of riddling and cryptanalysis what he calls allegory without ideas, is already implicit in the argument of his 1964 book (see Fletcher 2006). Fletcher s treatment of the daemonic, its way of naming the unnam- able...

... to “maximize his gain,” competing with other rational herdsman, until the resources of the ecosystem are depleted: “Individuals locked into the logic of the commons are free only to bring on universal ruin” (Hardin 1968 : 1244, 1248). The only solution is to enclose the commons. Acts of enclosure, Hardin...

..., But that the Lord of this enclosed demesne, Communicative of the good he owns, Admits me to a share: the guiltless eye Commits no wrong, nor wastes what it enjoys. (Cowper 1968: bk. 1, lines 330–34) “The guiltless eye”: There’s a lot to be said about this, since the passage...

... the other to the extreme edge of humanity and earthly life. Besides, the other is not entirely an enemy or an alien that stands opposed to the self or to my friend, but an interpellator or the appellated that leads us on to an ever-larger totality that encloses human life. When excellence is pursued...

.... A cari- cature immediately suggests itself: in such an institution, the academic’s spiritual construction of the world counts for nothing in the world, while the world essentially counts for nothing in his construction. The community of study is self-­enclosed within the university, since...

..., through cosmopolitan thought and action, engaged from a perspective of self-enforced​​ exile, found a home in a world bounded by the postcolonial present, and which remained isolated, like James’s esti- mation of Ishmael, “enclosed in the solitude of his social and intellectual speculation”?11...