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...Christopher Connery The 2010 Shanghai World Expo lasted from May 1 through October 31, 2010, and represented a tremendous mobilization of capital, human resources, and urban restructuring. It was in every respect a massive spectacle, giving its 70-plus million attendees (overwhelmingly from the PRC...

... and Thomas Huxley. Yan’s exultation of national power and expo- sition of the concept of qun (for Schwartz, this means “society,” but for Yan, it means a solidarity of political community equivalent with nation- state) privileged statism at the expense of individual liberty and was at risk...

... (they leave a massacre site intact) and expo- sure (they display the victims’ remains). They also appear to resist compre- hension and meaning—not least because they accost the senses of those who visit them. But the memorials are unintelligible not only because they leave visitors numb...

... 1860–1900, developments in the institutionalization of a modern art culture are noted: “Japan participates in the Vienna Expo- sition officially for the first time (1873 “Tokyo Fine Arts School (now Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) opens (1867 and “Japan participates unofficially...

... of Metropolis XXX simply breaks down into an inventory of such booths: ACC Craftfair Baltimore ACC Craftfair Columbus ACC Craftfair San Francisco Accessories-The Show Accessories-The Show-Holiday Resort ACCI International Craft Expo ACCI International Craft...

... the pathetic phrases of the ruling official ideology—its solemn, grave tonality—with everyday banality and to hold them up to ridicule, thus expos- ing behind the sublime noblesse of the ideological phrases the egotistical interests, the violence, the brutal claims to power’’ (29). While the United States...

... at the University of Chicago, is best known for her expo- sitions of the theory of just war. Since 9/11, she has kept herself extremely busy defending the Bush administration’s military policies in professional forums, political journals, and the mass media. She also unleashed a fero- cious attack on critical...

... and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is best known for her expo- sitions of the theory of just war. Since 9/11, she has kept herself extremely busy defending the Bush administration’s military policies in professional forums, political journals, and the mass media. She also...

.... The events of 9/11, the global war on terrorism, and the Iraq War supplied expo- nents of the neoliberal imagination with the occasion to restore rule of law to the field of American studies. At around the time that the U.S. war machine was transported into the area some biblical scholars have...

... Said’s contrapuntal perspective as a means of expos- ing not only the blindness and deafness of canonical Western writers to “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden” [Spanos cites T. S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”] but also to the pain that blindness and deafness pro- duced...

... that impel political society and the economy in the direction of greater freedom and egalitarianism. Among the most systematic expo- nents of this current are Cohen and Arato, whose work is strongly influenced by Jürgen Habermas. Because Cohen and Arato’s theory of civil society is normative...

... to critical intellec- tuals—is to reexamine the project of critique informed by those sources that provide an exemplary articulation of a differential kind of thinking. Such thinking inhabits the gap between history and transcendence, thus expos- ing the false necessity of going beyond...

...—­that is, if the audience was listening to this as a work of social critique and Pentecostal figure. The song’s expo- sure of the layers and layers of “oppression,” internal and external, would also resonate across contexts and borders discrepantly. In a society where religion has political implications and can get...

... humanist with a baroque dissertatio entitled (among other things) ‘‘De stylo philosophico and the other written by Benjamin, who pref- aces his own philosophical-rhetorical treatise on the baroque with an expo- sition of (among...

... tactics and contingency management—the 2-­D war games; another that taught the senses and affect management by way of desensitizing through repeated virtual expo- sure—literary and historical texts.11 With slight exaggeration, military histo- 10. For the history of war games, see especially Perla...

... of Ireland’s most important industries, tourism. Interestingly, the steep decline in conventional Catholic practice has been matched by an expo- give preference to baptized Catholics in the admissions process. A significant number of Irish parents admit to baptizing children in order to get them...

... of faith and liberalism. Like Schmitt, Kahn is performing an anamnesis for the naïve defender of democracy. He is expos- ing to self-­consciousness a repository of wisdom that “ordinary Americans” and their leaders actually consult instead of the rational norms of liberal theorists or the moral...

... of dark Andromeda belong up there in the great heaven that hangs above this tortured world. Despite the crude and cruel motives behind her shame and expo- sure, her degradation and enchaining, the fire and freedom of black Africa, with the uncurbed might of her consort Asia...

... for indirect death—the expo- sure to death—as much as for direct killing. While not Darwinism, this bio- logical sense of power is based on evolutionism and enables a thinking of colonial relations, the necessity of wars, criminality, phenomena of madness and mental illness, class divisions, and so forth...

... of large gains for developing countries, but [only] expos[ure] to greater risks’’ to some among them.14 Why can’t Islam be a liberation theology for radicals from the middle-class elite as a great culture—called ‘‘Islamcontinues to get sepa- rated from the mainstream toward modernity? I hold no brief...