... simulation game, and the transmedia game) and tackles a different topic (poverty and homelessness in the United States, underdevelopment of the Third World, and immigration struggles in Europe). Despite these differences, they all actively challenge the victory-oriented nature of gamification while...

...Simon During Precarity is a double condition. On the one hand, it denotes a socioeconomic position of insecurity and poverty, often particularly associated with statelessness. On the other, as is here argued, it denotes an anthropological or existential condition, one for which human beings...

...Thanos Zartaloudis Abstract This essay offers a reading of Stathis Gourgouris's The Perils of the One ( 2019 ). The peril of the One is primarily, Zartaloudis suggests, its poverty of experience. The impoverishment of experience is the purpose of transcendental foundations of the One, which...

...) contexts. It also allows readers to question Arendt's view of the role that suffering and poverty ought to play in moments of revolution and to scrutinize her thesis that wherever a solution to the “social” question was sought by “political” means it has led to terror and violence, with the notion...

... are no better off after emancipation that we are told Levin had always felt the injustice of his abundance as compared with the poverty of the people (Tolstoy 2000: 93). 76 boundary 2 / May 2020 It seems plausible that one form of rule breaking breaking the unwritten rule that the realist novel will not admit...

... problems that plague it, precisely because mainstream pub- lic discourse has ruled out the language necessary to think critically about these problems—an­ increasing income gap between the rich and the rest, poverty, unemployment and underemployment, intensifying militarization (a defense budget...

... them” (1999b: 272; 1972: 6. In a variant to his essay “Experience and Poverty” (1933), Benjamin speaks of a certain “barbarism of children” (1977: 962). 7. To this extent, Benjamin’s concept of pedagogy—from his early writings on the cultural youth movement up to his later communist pedagogy...

... as poverty, extending, as Stiegler points out in La misère symbolique, beyond the sensible to the symbolic and ultimately to the very nature of the human. The contemporary artist (contemporary with us) and the public to which the contemporary artist appeals find themselves unable to avoid playing...

... 2005, took up the issue of poverty as the foremost item on its annual agenda. With unaccustomed perspicacity for which he must be commended, the New York Times editorial writer Nicholas Kristof looked past the immediate disaster to draw attention in a number of his editorials to the slow death...

...). Wang Shaoguang / The Great Transformation  29 Minimum Income Security The Chinese government has recently been paying more atten- tion to economic security, which can be seen from its policy on minimum income security. The problem of urban poverty did not draw much attention...

... . Translated by Livingstone Rodney . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Mali Joseph . 2003 . Mythistory: The Making of a Modern Historiography . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Marx Karl . 1900 . The Poverty of Philosophy: Being a Translation of the Misère de la Philosophie...

... (too little), 13, 14; (too much), New Yorker, The, 220 50 Nike, 15 Lucky (magazine), 78 Nolan, Tom, 70 Noodles Romanov, 59 M nostalgia, 41 Madison, WI, 11 novel, poverty...

... not add up or accumulate the past coherently. This would be, to use a term that will be central to our discussion, a fantasy world. It is the world of Mickey Mouse that Benjamin describes in his essay of 1933, “Experience and Poverty,” a world “in which everything is solved in the simplest...

... . 2017 . Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Translated by Goldhammer Arthur . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Pogge Thomas . 2001 . “ Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend .” Journal of Human Development 2 , no. 1 : 59 – 77...

... figures indicated that the number of children in the Republic of Ire- Cleary / Foreword 3 land living in consistent poverty, meaning experiencing regular deprivation of basic necessities, had risen to 12 percent, up from the already high figure of 6...

... in to the reeling riotousness of visual culture and abandoned the needed task of understanding the complexity of my neighboring continent. In those years, Africa was for me the prison house of internal conflicts, poverty, and dangerous politics. The second reason has to do with popular culture. In 1990...

... statement here, under the heading “Social Obligations of the Christian,” rings with topical rele- vance, and it is certainly out of tone with the fundamentalism of his youth. When one actually examines his teaching on poverty, labor relations, or racial segregation, however, he recommended...

...: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Dur- ham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Habermas, Jürgen. The Crisis of the European Union: A Response. Trans. Ciaran Cronin. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2012. Huet, Marie-­Hélène. The Culture of Disaster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

..., The Poverty of Philosophy, wherein he accuses the French anarchist of misunderstanding the nature of surplus labor by reducing the working day to a purely formal concept. There, Marx invariably introduces his citations of Proudhon with the phrase “Let us see,” and what he sees is that Proudhon treats...

... that Bill Clinton has Giroux / Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance 63 economic, educational, environmental, and social problems. Market-based initiatives are touted as the only avenue for resolving issues such as unem- ployment, education, housing, and poverty. Public goods...