...Sobia Saleem © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela’s Gift In every era, there are several men and women born who make the unthinkable thinkable, but rare and far in between are those who make the once thinkable utterly unthinkable. Nelson Mandela was one...

...Craig Dworkin “Hypermnesia” sketches the historical, theoretical, and technological contexts for the Eclipse archive of radical poetry ( http://english.utah.edu/eclipse ). Engaging Jacques Derrida's argument in Mal d'archive , the essay posits the archive as a species of gift and teases out...

... liturgical list of names is propelled by devotion to the feminine and to language, above all to Kalliopê, chiefest of Muses. The gift of the Muses to mortals, Brown argues, is a poetical politics essential in the ongoing iron age described by Hesiod. Poetry as prayer—yet the Muses make it new, “so everything...

...Dale Pendell of your face, the forest,   and a gnarled vineyard so late in autumn   still bearing fruit. and intoxication   where was already delight. To deny the gifts of the gods   would deny the scars and furrows had simply given wine for wine   and forest for forest...

...- sian and Muslim populations of the Soviet Union does not follow a model of intersubjective mutuality that presupposes (as Song puts it in another context) “a common measure” between the two groups. The relation ought to be read, rather, as a gift/countergift exchange organized by the “great...

... and rethink its most basic implications.”8 For Žižek, this means that we should challenge the tie between the welfare state and capitalism. Although Sloterdijk, according to Žižek, challenges our erotic investment in the welfare state (opposing to it a thy- motic ethics and politics of gift giving...

.... E. B. Du Bois, “Black Labor,” chap. 2 in The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America, with an introduction by Glenda Carpio (New York: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 2007), 13–28. 2. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, ed. David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-­ Williams (1903...

... and the people. By reciprocal-­ relational achievement, I have in mind something akin to the relation of gift to countergift. It is the same as how the gift exchange produces and exceeds the individual parties involved.32 It is in a similar sense that the “political life” does not exist in a state...

... issue on Cavafy, this work by, on, and for Bernstein is an internal marker as well as a gift to poetry readers. Charles has a name for this art: “Echopoetics is the nonlinear resonance of one motif bouncing off another within an aesthetics of constellation. Even more, it's the sensation of allusion...

..., 1976), 118ff. 206 boundary 2 / Summer 2006 view by the events connected to the appearance of the Malay.4 The circum- stances surrounding de Quincey’s gift of opium to the Malay afford in turn a broader if oblique consideration of the effects of European imperialism in nineteenth...

... viable alternatives, try to figure out what might be the larger implications of what they are (already) doing, and then offer those ideas back, not as prescriptions, but as contributions, possibilities—as gifts” (12). Not prescriptions but contributions, possibilities, gifts. That is what Graeber offered...

... of Djamilia, Malek Had- dad published his novel, Je t offrirai une gazelle, which I translate as I Pre- sent You a Gazelle, emphasizing the novel s intertwining play with tense and temporality, representation and gifts. The novel, another story within a story, recounts an unnamed Algerian author s failed...

.... This is as corpses “gifted” to science in Japanese public hospitals or research institutions. Fujita wound up at Niigata Hospital, where the officiating doctor told the researchers that, due to a shortage in their supply of medical corpses, the hospital had started turning to municipal offices for unclaimed...

...- sage. To put it bluntly, to whom, or to what, is Freud’s communication at this time in homage? To be sure, Freud begins his letter with a warning to Rolland that it is ‘‘the gift of an impoverished creature...

... Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Robert Pfaller delegation of enjoyment interpassivity psychic debt new media A prevalent Chinese Buddhist ritual of mourning, frequently carried out in urban centers, such as Hong Kong, is the practice of sending gifts of quotidian necessities...

... grandmother wore him fancy in her night braid. (133–34) Kicknosway has the warehouse eyes and Arabian drums of a gen- uinely gifted poet. Having moved from Wayne State University in Detroit to the island of Oahu in Hawai i in 1986, she labors with fresh energies as ‘‘Poet in the Schools on red...

... Reviewed: Philip Rieff, Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away From Us (New York: Vintage, 2007); Fellow Teachers: Of Culture and Its Second Death (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973); Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, with a new epilogue by the author, 3rd ed...

... on passion, the gift, and the nature of political commitment. Manu Goswami is an assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at New York University. She is the author of Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space (2004). Her work has also appeared in Comparative Studies in So...

... University, and also sits on the Conseil d’Administration of Ars Industrialis. He is the author of Politics of the Gift (2011) and coeditor, with Christina Howells, of Stiegler and Technics (2013). He is also working on a monograph on Stiegler, Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy in the Age of Technology...

... almond and melon voice. Many writers in trouble remember him. They remember him apolo- gizing for bringing them a small gift, something for the day or the week, something to ease the severity of the blockade. What...