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...Anthony Bogues The October 16, 1968, riot, popularly known as the “Rodney Affair,” was a watershed moment in Caribbean political history. The riot was triggered by the Jamaican government's banning of the revolutionary scholar Walter Rodney. This essay discusses the 1968 riot and the political...

...Kenneth W. Warren Duke University Press 2000 An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars Kenneth W. Warren At a moment that can only be described as a crisis of faith, Matthew Towns...

...Henry A. Giroux Duke University Press 2001 Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization Henry A. Giroux There is growing evidence in American life that citizenship is being...

...Stuart Elden Duke University Press 2002 The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault’s «Il faut défendre la société» and the Politics of Calculation Stuart Elden What is meant by the word constitution? If we...

...Donald E. Pease Duke University Press 2005 Hawthorne in the Custom-House: The Metapolitics, Postpolitics, and Politics of The Scarlet Letter Donald E. Pease When he published The Scarlet Letter in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne...

...Bruce Robbins Duke University Press 2005 Temporizing: Time and Politics in the Humanities and Human Rights Bruce Robbins In her recent book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emo- tions, Martha Nussbaum offers...

...John Kraniauskas Duke University Press 2005 Difference Against Development: Spiritual Accumulation and the Politics of Freedom John Kraniauskas Paul Ricoeur’s account of the end of Hegelianism in his Time and Narrative...

...Benedetto Fontana Duke University Press 2006 Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People Benedetto Fontana 1 This essay attempts to analyze the political thought of Leo Strauss, whose...

...Anthony Bogues Duke University Press 2006 Imagination, Politics, and Utopia: Confronting the Present The relationships between the imagination, ways of life, and desire are central to any consideration of the political. In thinking about these re- lationships and their links...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2007 Religion, Politics, Theology: A Conversation with Achille Mbembe This conversation took place in May 2006 at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. There were questions from...

...James Livingston Duke University Press 2007 On Richard Hofstadter and the Politics of “Consensus History” James Livingston The cultural function of the modern historian is to teach us how to learn from people...

...Rey Chow Duke University Press 2007 A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later Rey Chow In the summer of 2005, I was invited to deliver...

... is not. On the contrary, many of the writers McCann and Szalay indict—Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and Toni Morrison, for instance—are as aware of the limits of magical politics as they are, and as committed to a chastened, melioristic model of social struggle. Where the novelists break with McCann and Szalay...

... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Erratum 223 Erratum for Anthony Bogues, “Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apart- heid, and the Politics of Moral Force,” boundary 2 41, no. 2 (2014): 34–36. The first full sentence on page 36...

...”—but the affirmation of an “agonic” friendship characterized by “a-filiation.” The essay addresses the conditions or presuppositions—at once ontological, philosophical, and political—in which this affirmation of agonic friendships and a-filiative relationships begins to emerge. At the same time, it seeks to trace out...

... later theorizations point to a common origin in the politics of “1968” and indicate its global dimensions. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 art politics 1960s Japan violence The Art of the Everyday as Crisis: Objets, Installations, Weapons, and the Origin of Politics...

...David Golumbia The question of the militarization of language emerges from the politics surrounding cryptography, or the use of encryption in contemporary networked digital technology, and the intersection of encryption with the politics of language. Ultimately, cryptographic politics aims...

...Daniel Finn The Great Recession has had a far-reaching and profound impact on Irish political life. In the Republic of Ireland, there have been greater shifts at the ballot box since the crisis began than over the previous five decades, and a combative movement against water charges has threatened...

...Matthew Charles T. J. Clark has described Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as containing a politics that is “cryptic,” as if “being actively aired and developed elsewhere.” This essay seeks to uncover the buried foundations of such a politics in Benjamin’s early writings on pedagogy...