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... of the land occupied by empire as “terra nullius.” This essay retrieves Said's “Canaanite” reading of Michael Waltzer's Exodus and Revolution , in which the latter invokes, above all, the English Puritan revolution to demonstrate the emancipatory politics of the Old Testament story and reconstellates...

... capitalism exodus Constellations of the Fukushima Problematic: Socialization, Capitalism, and Struggle Sabu Kohso Two Questions about Fukushima In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, my foreign friends ask two specific...

... million Palestinians were dispossessed as the new State of boundary 2 41:2 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2685980 © 2014 by Duke University Press 12 boundary 2 / Summer 2014 Israel was formed. This Palestinian exodus into the Arab states bordering Israel created nearly intractable problems for all...

... Prize and the Lambda Literary Award; Candy, a limited edition letterpress chapbook (2011); and The Morning Hour, selected by C. D. Wright for the 2003 Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship. Her forthcom- ing collections include The Main Cause of the Exodus (2014) and Life...

...- cipitating the massive exodus to the United States from the port of Mariel. The third—another migratory explosion, known as the crisis of the balseros, or rafters—happened in 1994 and had as an additional ingredient wide...

..., there was a substantial rural exodus to the cities, as immigration became what might be called an enduring tempo- rary solution. Unemployment continued to grow at an alarming and steady pace. In the period between 1956 and 1980, there was high unemploy- ment chiefly among those without a high school...

.... Not long afterwards, this tendency would culminate in the so-called exodus of the balseros, or rafters, which would take place that same year. The popular joke that asks the last person who leaves Cuba to turn off...

... Alfonso and Juan Boza, who arrived in Miami in the early eighties as a result of the Mariel exodus. It was there, in Florida, and not Havana, that Alfonso and Ana Mendieta met, became friends, confidants, and copractitioners...

... (Rancière 2017 : 23). This population did not orient itself toward elections but rather toward the regime as a whole. This other population began to constitute itself in a process of political disaffection and through, following Paolo Virno ( 1996 ), exodus : with the construction of a nonstate-based...

... valise ou le cercueil” was allegedly an expression used by indigenous Algerians to convince settlers to leave Algeria during the war of independence. In reality, the exodus of some eight hundred thousand settlers to France was an unexpected and unwelcome development for both parties. 30 The implicit...

..., and not some epiphenomenal event of exceptional eclecticism. Guaranteed 2 stick 2 the roof of your Oldsmobile, motherfucka. —New Power Generation, “The Exodus Has Begun” A recurrent figure used to describe Prince's music, and the Minneapolis Sound in general, is eclecticism. Prince's music...

... in meditation in silent prayer and sings aloud in chant and song. Each leather house contains four scrolls each with passages from the Hebrew bible: two from Exodus (13:1–10 and 13:11–16) and two from Deuteronomy (6:4–9 and 11:13–21). All versions of the same directive, which refers to the Jewish responsibility...

..., of the “American Jeremiad,” analyzed by Sacvan Bercovitch. We must see it in the context of the origins of American exceptionalism in the Massachusetts Bay Puri- tans’ exodus from the Old World into the New, in the defining distinction they made between a civilized world that had become “old,” “decadent...

... understood in a meeting, because some opportunist twisted their words or some extremist decided to make an example of them. Perhaps their rela- tives have gone North, and so, since the 1960s or since the Mariel exodus, they have been...

... in continental Europe, the Famine in Ire- land had arguably represented a merciless and accelerated convulsion of this magnitude, decimating the subaltern classes, accelerating the exodus from the land to the core industrial centers of England and America, com- Cleary / Materialist History...

... of production. On the one hand, global capital practiced its own exodus from national regulation. On the other hand, the migratory mobility of work intensified the existing pressure on national borders. Neoliberalism introduced the virtual order of plane: the emergence of new modes...

..., this encounter with the Real almost swerved him. Pip brought Captain Ahab face to face with nothing and thereby pro- duced an exodus within Moby-­Dick that retrieved and worlded the noth- ing, the global zero zone, as it were, that Spanos announced as Melville’s essential legacy. Pace Spanos...

... that there has been very little evidence, recorded or reported, of mass panic among any of the popula- tions being bombed. Exodus from the cities was relatively orderly and was often followed by people returning to their homes. He concludes that pre- dictions of “panic and mass hysteria” have “proved...

... of the Suez Canal “nationalization,” Nasser was thirty-eight years old and Tsirkas forty-five. The future still lay open and the Greek community's “exodus” from Egypt did not appear to be a matter of course. Nasser himself assured the Greeks that they were not going to be driven out of Egypt and that they had...

.... These exaggerated notions (the subject and the polis), admirable as they are historically for their endurance, are part of the problem. The Left often enough has conceived of freedom at this junction in an attempt to redefine it as an exodus, while the Right has conceived neoconservatism in an attempt to restrict...