... ceramics in China. She discusses the role of “elemental” thinking (earth, wind, water, fire, human) in her work and the techniques she employs to allow the expression of elementality with the least possible human interference. She also discusses the distinctive space she created in the mountains near her...

... philosopher (but who cannot help himself also to read as if he were a literary critic). Clearly, what is most crucial in such a characterological merry-go-round of reading is the nature of the ‘‘as ifan ‘‘as if’’ that I would characterize in terms of interference. Philopoesis names a certain discontinuous...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Books Received Acampora, Christa Davis, and Angela L. Cotton, eds. Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom. Albany: State Univer- sity of New York Press, 2007. Adams, Jon. Interference Patterns...

... bond, and any interference with its autonomy by the State, society or com- munity is improper interference’’ (MR, 26). The commission ‘‘has no doubt that [this] view of the nature of the university’’ is ‘‘untenable. If the theory...

... writing about the American dispossessed in a chameleon- like dramatic style that dispossesses her of prior authority and judgment, and voids ‘‘the lyrical interference of the ego’’ in Charles Olson’s Maximus sense.2 As is clear from her ongoing project in creating an unselved poetics, 1. See...

... Inspect the glass machinery of Dewdney’s recombinant Permugene- sis. Poems of camouflage, interference texts that both elucidate and obfuscate, written back through themselves in a lunar world of eels and dreams, removing and replacing their parts with “corresponding and...

... Mill, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Jacques­ Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant to posit two conceptions of freedom, one positive and the other negative. For Ber- lin, negative freedom is about a freedom from, an absence of interference. Drawing from Kant, he argues that positive freedom is about...

...: Harvard University Press, 1988), 65. Griaule’s style was more precisely one of active, theatrical creation. 8. Clifford, The Predicament of Culture, 94. As Clifford puts it, intertextual dialogue pro- duces “cultural translation and interference.” There are anthropologists who view their work as...

...—and, on the other, on iconic or frontal modes of address that appear to interfere with the former set of codes. For instance, in Andaz/A Matter of Style (Mehboob Khan, 1949), an image of Hindi actress and national icon Nargis interrupts and is lifted out of the spa- tial relations established...

... race), also get overcoded and altered, not just through the interference generated through translation (from French to Arabic, for example) but more effectively—and belatedly, I should add— via the long processes of decolonization and anti-imperialist and anti- Orientalist critique...

... cracking). A major locus of contention within the encryptionist communities is that law enforcement, militaries, and intelligence agencies have long insisted that the availability of what is loosely referred to as “strong encryp- tion” would potentially interfere with the execution of a wide...

... something. It will for many years confuse our politics. It may even change the present status of family life. It will admit to the bal- lot thousands of inexperienced persons, unable to vote intelligently. Above all, it will interfere with some of the present prerogatives of men...

... any criticism of those in authority played into the hands of the foreign enemy. In short, they revived with relish the old language of ‘‘struggle ‘‘solidarity ‘‘imperialism ‘‘spies ‘‘enemies and fth columns The liberal Speaker of the House declared, ‘‘I ask the Ameri- cans not to interfere in our...

... interferences, but about the freedom of a group, a community, and a nation- state to determine its goals and how best to achieve them. The most radical departure from this consensus is Zhang Taiyan, whom Wang Hui treats with special care. Zhang is important because his antimodern stance is...

...- ton or Miami, the Cuban authorities did not interfere; it was all the same to them. They allowed the balseros to depart on their own terms and at their own risk. And our hands hurt from waving so many good-byes. We wished...

...,” October 100 (Spring 2002): 183. Scappettone  /  Versus Seamlessness  65 effected through this sort of climate control—to test its interference in such ambiance. An undercurrent of textual experimentation in the wake of the last- ditch strains...

... other substantive values, such as Americanism, humane- ness, and justice: “when the executive department of the Government is the absolute judge of whether a man shall remain in this country or not, and the courts will not interfere, we should see to it that no injustice is done to the man,” he...

... screen, compounding the success of both. Fans found new recognition of their collective force. Media remediation here appears as a mode of recip- rocal intensification, of synergy, convergence, and resonance rather than rivalry, divergence, or interference. What’s not to celebrate...