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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
... they turned the world upside down, making possible, even imperative to some, the overthrow of monarchs; the circumnavigation of a globe, the roundness of which had not been until then fully grasped; closer inspection of the heavens; and the reading of the text of the Bible and other key documents...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 1.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and liberation. Mandela never produced anything equivalent to the political writings of a Gramsci, Fanon, or Césaire. Because of the media and the global support for the struggles he led, Mandela acquired a resonance with effects across the globe. His career, with all its changes, posed challenges for thinking...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2010
... an ordering of the globe along racial lines. Though these flashes contain hope for a world-to-come, the essay calls for a corresponding cosmopolitan vision that is not blinded by this global promise, but is willing to see through it to confront the fractured local ground of the postcolonial present...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 117–118.
Published: 01 August 2019
... in a thousand layers around the surface of the globe to allow you to inhabit within this shapeless realm, or a realm with too many shapes. Just like geological upheaval, this regime of images offers a new era that might be called the phenomenocene . This is our commonplace, our common destiny. Copyright ©...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 157–184.
Published: 01 August 2003
... that lead the artist to the Imperial for
drink and diversion in the first place. This examination explores how con-
ceptualization of the globe as a single geo-economic unit depends on a
y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 162 of 252 historically specific aesthetic...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 57–81.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., periodization feels less tractable, and the topics of concern have altered, with the scale of the globe now a pressing matter conceptually and in the day-to-day workings of the journal. Some of what I do in the pages that follow is simply describe the journal and note its circumstances and development...
FIGURES
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2000
... with
the times, a thinking that clings, as Marx’s thinking does, to the movements
of history and capital as they drive helter-skelter across the globe modern-
izing, destroying, and remaking. Harvard College could be what looked like...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 73–76.
Published: 01 November 2015
... geopolitical rhetorics resonate across the
globe to impact diasporic subjects (in this case, me) on a daily, psychological basis. I have
been struck for numerous years by the way that the behavior of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (North Korea) seems to match that of a dysfunctional...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in tomato, cumin, stems of oregano.
When white globes light up soon, mosquitoes
will follow. Even the waves of the Nile,
whipped up like flutters of wings, smooth over;
a pink dims. I breathe something sweet,
it becomes fruit, then smoke from a shisha,
a husky man...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2013
... for recognition is consigned to the past. In light of this, the global
frame does not merely mark a larger scale, as the argument for “distant
reading” would have it.14 Rather, the globe is a mark of the recognition para-
10. Mikhail Bakhtin, “Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences,” in Speech Genres...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 August 2003
... the prerogatives of the domestic emergency state
across the globe.
Following 9/11, the state effected the transition from a normalized
political order to a state of emergency by enacting the violence that Virgin...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 73–97.
Published: 01 August 2017
...
that description: Robinson Crusoe, for instance, is precisely not a novel
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about the globe. Its hero is first offered various forms of provincial suc-
cess—he could set up as small merchant or farmer in northern England;
he could become a tobacco planter in Brazil. In each case...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 43–44.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of these
extraordinary people, a man whose words and actions have such deep
repercussions all over the globe, so that now, indeed, even rarer than Man-
dela is the person who has not heard of him.
When people of my generation, teenagers and twentysomethings,
when we hear about South African apartheid, we...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 104–110.
Published: 01 November 2015
... into the
big wide monstrous world that surrounded the house and me. And I knew I
had been spared, but what was I left with? Visually, I was looking resolutely
into the eye of what looked like a grammar-school globe, a storm; and save
for the problem of the dreamworld’s color—this dark blue...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 173–201.
Published: 01 May 2001
... States and
elsewhere. Less frequently invoked, though, is the materiality and spatiality
of the globe, the globe as the planet. The dimension of global thinking ex-
pressed in the earth photograph, published first in Life magazine in 1969,
then gaining wider currency on the earth flag, the Whole Earth...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of the
cosmopolitan moniker. Its metonymic move of “possessive collectivism” is
homologous with that of the ideological structure of neoliberal globaliza-
tion, which takes a tiny part of the world (a supposedly “level playing field”
in electronically enabled economic exchange) and makes of that The Globe...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 105–125.
Published: 01 February 2009
... effect” to explain the
very real, yet unnameable, impulse driving the massive waves of protests
that spread across the globe. Commonly referred to as “people power,” or
in Herbert Marcuse’s words, a “global movement” (INL, 21), the origin of
these often spontaneous uprisings baffles us...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2005
... by the
colonization of the world by capitalist modernity. The term colonial moder-
nity is significant most importantly because it recognizes the voices of the
colonized without dissipating into globalization or postcolonial blurrings the
power relations that have shaped the globe as we encounter it today.
I...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 53–79.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., that certain literary techniques
carry the globe with them. But then where are the naïvely planetary novels
of which these techniques are the vaporings? Do we have in front of us the
strange case of a sediment that precedes the object of which it is the resi-
due? How could a novel make good on Joyce’s...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 May 2022
... add up to a portrait of political chaos. The vast European empires spanned the globe by the late nineteenth century. They collided in World War I and began to disintegrate after 1945. Nationalism was often subdued by empire, as it was by the exuberantly multinational Habsburg empire. Just...
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