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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 139–156.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the alienated world. Playspaces of Anthropological Materialist Pedagogy:
Film, Radio, Toys
Esther Leslie
Much of Walter Benjamin’s work is pedagogical, in the sense that he
judges things—artworks, trivia, experiences—in relation...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 63–86.
Published: 01 May 2018
... University Press . Nancy Jean-Luc . 1991 . The Inoperative Community . Translated by Febel Gisela Legueil Jutta . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Walter Benjamin Bertolt Brecht Immanuel Kant pedagogy materialist anthropology Copyright © 2018 Duke...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 245–246.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Determination (2021), and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics (2017). His translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal will be published in November 2024. Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago; professor emeritus...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 May 2020
...- process, we get a result that was already available to the worker at the outset (Marx 1975: 177 78, translation modified). The passage is often remarked upon in the general account of mechanistic calculation and materialist determination in order to under- line the sort of Marxist rationalism (often...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 207–241.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Joe Cleary Duke University Press 2004 Toward a Materialist-Formalist History of
Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
Joe Cleary
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Most accounts of contemporary Irish culture tend to be largely affir-
mative, even...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 February 2013
... as an attempt to close off prematurely the pos-
sibility of a materialist and historical understanding of the present in the
Islamic world and a critical engagement with it.
The new anthropology of Islam performs a conjuring trick in which
the overwhelming number of lived forms of Islamic...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 113–148.
Published: 01 May 2004
... slaughtered animal flesh. The expressed natural theology of
that anthropology implied a historical criticism of revealed religion. It is not
revealed religion but history that aids natural reason in realizing its precepts
as civil law. Scripture is read as a document of evidence in an incipient
materialist...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the extreme.
Finally, Esther Leslie’s “Playspaces of Anthropological Materialist
Pedagogy” and Brian Elliott’s “Beyond Critique” both reflect on a central
concern of Benjamin’s later pedagogical‑cultural thinking, one not yet crys-
tallized in the earlier writings: technology. As Leslie points out...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 221–243.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., or the relationship of reason to modern colonialism and racism? This compound question is at the core of Allegra de Laurentiis's outstanding study Hegel's Anthropology: Life, Psyche, and Second Nature (2021). Although the term soul does not appear in de Laurentiis's title, her book offers a sustained engagement...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 25–69.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of knowledge, new historicism, and new materialism, and conjoining insights from a number of disciplines—German media theory and history, early cinema, new media studies, art history, literary and cultural studies, and anthropology, to name a few—media archaeology strives to “construct alternate histories...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 35–62.
Published: 01 May 2018
... (his retreat from philanthropy into misan-
thropy staged as a withdrawal into withered private life) with an effectively
unconscious confession of the “materialist humanism” of the young Marx.8
Reading Kraus through Marx, Benjamin invokes an anthropological materi-
alism, in which revolutionary...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 109–127.
Published: 01 May 2002
... as
discovering the constancy of American identity, required particular attention
to the notion of ‘‘culture ‘‘Culture’’ would serve to explain and define what
was then called ‘‘national character This, indeed, was the birth of Ameri-
can studies, which was declared ‘‘a branch of cultural anthropology 2...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 153–194.
Published: 01 February 2001
... global capital
has used, modified, and infiltrated racial meanings in the contemporary con-
text. No materialist analysis of racial formation can afford to ignore the im-
plications of the transatlantic and transpacific integration of capital circuits
Bové and the boundary 2 editorial collective...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 215–238.
Published: 01 February 2020
... in the process of coalescing Hayles s book sought to steer scholarship toward an anti- liberal- humanist and anti- abstractionist notion of the human 5. While neither Hayles nor Hansen would consider themselves theorists of affect, their broadly technological materialist methods align them in significant ways...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 79–104.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., in “succeeding,” it became that carrying on or bear-
Fragmentary notes for this essay were shared with three different sets of audiences at,
chronologically, the University of California, Berkeley (Department of Anthropology); the
University of California, Davis (Department of Anthropology...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 121–133.
Published: 01 February 2000
... of
the Ideal, the Geisteswissenschaften are histories of Thought. Then again,
insofar as the objective of Dilthey’s project is a universal system of meth-
odological rigor, his human sciences also aims at a materialist History...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 13–19.
Published: 01 May 2001
... on the
colonized world of a concerted coercive economic and political enterprise,
but also in its fantastical form, as revealing a sexual politics rooted in the
anthropological construction of the colonial subject. Not only does Forster
often imitate the posture of a colonial anthropologist in projecting...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 229–258.
Published: 01 May 2001
... on the
colonized world of a concerted coercive economic and political enterprise,
but also in its fantastical form, as revealing a sexual politics rooted in the
anthropological construction of the colonial subject. Not only does Forster
often imitate the posture of a colonial anthropologist in projecting...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 February 2017
... argued that with the machine-tool, the worker was
2. See Andrea Bardin’s excellent essay “De l’homme à la matière: pour une ‘ontolo-
gie difficile’” (2013), in which he argues, in his project of establishing a materialist politi-
cal philosophy from Simondon’s work, that human work organized...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 253–286.
Published: 01 August 2016
... materialism that stressed “a
material reality subject to the laws of dialectics, and of practice as the ker-
nel of a correct epistemology,” views later reinforced in the philosophies of
Plekhanov, Lenin, Li Da, and Mao Zedong.15 Overwhelmingly this meant
grasping the origins of materialist philosophy...
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