...Ryan Bishop Polyscaler autonomous remote sensing systems are presently constituting new regimes of teleactivity for real-time surveillance and data gathering. This essay continues several ongoing projects that examine the philosophical, technological, and political ramifications of these systems...

... historiography, including the body of work listed in Ogilvie’s bibliog- raphy, has been to show the extreme rapidity of the scientific expansions. The image of the hunter is not altogether fanciful, for all hunting requires acute powers of observation, deploying all the senses at once...

..., as though there had not been a scandal- ous series of unpunished killing by police against which this movement was protesting (aggressively, but not in a lethal manner). The shooter in Dallas was in turn killed by a remotely controlled robot carrying a bomb that was exploded in the building where he...

... Moreno wonder about the political forms emerging when sound and music are entrusted to do something for some- one—for which they propose the term fiduciary—and in particular the func- tion of aesthesis in believing that one senses and that what one senses is true. Bill Dietz and Gavin Steingo...

... feel that it occurred in another time, in a remote and bygone era. If I were to suggest today to my community college students, entering freshmen with open minds and great curiosity and imagination, that during their lifetime a nation had instigated a system of governed racial segregation...

... the absence of a radical opposition, after all the suffering. Though these straightforward, honest, and even naive questions appear to be addressing different issues, I have been trying to answer them together tacitly in a number of writings.1 For I sense they are intercon- 1. Some of these writings...

..., Human Rights feeds (on) class apartheid. ‘‘Human Rights and Human Wrongs the title of the series where this paper was originally presented, is asymmetrical. The primary nominative sense of rights cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘‘justifiable claim, on legal or moral grounds...

... that almost completely seals off all the senses but the visual, allowing a delimited but kinetic window on the world that appears simultaneous to the moment of perception. The interest and desire to understand how the eye perceives movement, which so enthralled early modern experimenters, led...

... detour and say something about the importance of area studies for the compara- tive project and how it has induced people to embark upon the study of societies and cultures other than their own—distant, different, psychologi- cally remote, always escaping one’s reach, ultimately obliging them...

...Eric Savoy According to Derrida, there is something perverse about the archive. Usually understood in a positive sense as the site of cultural transmission, and as the temporal pivot between historical traces and the intellectual work to come in an ideal futurity, the archive contains an auto...

... in the lifework. Hobsbawm’s life and writing is a kind of remote, inactive, pensive, extended moment of solidarity with those who struggled and died in the wars against the fascists. It is even, as we shall see, a kind of allegori- cal project. The block of time that was to have been the transition...

... Books, 1999). This book is cited parenthetically by page number only. 1. ‘‘Between Worlds: Edward Said Makes Sense of His Life London Review of Books, 7 May 1998, 3. boundary 2 28:1, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duke University Press. 2 boundary 2 / Spring 2001 tire sense of self during my...

... of the occurrence, one elderly woman who lives in central Tokyo ratified a traditional political wisdom when she was quoted as saying that “when a country’s leaders are bad, natural disasters occur.”4 In Japan’s remote pasts, occurrences brought on by nature, such as drought, pestilence, vol- canic eruptions...

... at the same time, played in splitting him into the two selves he has been ever since—have I come to sense the meaning of that abrupt retreat. But I begin this reminiscence here not because I want to remember what I remembered about that telephone conversation in the next few years. On the contrary...

... mean, exactly? The first translation offered by the dictionaries is “mood,” in the double sense of, firstly, a feeling so interior and subjective that it cannot be conveyed by concepts, but also, and secondly, in the more objective sense of a “climate,” as it sometimes seems to surround...

... remote, the feet worn to discordant abilities, face fainter. I love, loved you, Esmeralda, darling Bill. I liked the ambience of others, the clotted crowds. Inside it was empty, at best a fountain in winter, a sense of wasted, drab park, a battered nonentity...

... with the legendary yet normally remote figure of Khizr. For both Goethe and Iqbal, Khizr appears on the path as soon as one has taken the initial steps for a departure from oneself, or when one is no longer sure who one is. Goethe deploys the provocative term “Hegire” on occasions when he is taking leave from his...

.... An implication of Benjamin’s presentation of Kafka is that all study should be Kafkan. This essay will endeavor to indicate what might be entailed by study that is Kafkan in Benjamin’s sense. Themes to be addressed are the following: the justice of aligning study with nothing, the physicality offsetting myths...

... subsequently transferred to Auschwitz and extermi- nated including the mother of Jacques Austerlitz, the protagonist of the novel. Austerlitz is devoted to the painful process of both preserving and redeeming (in Walter Benjamin s sense) this past, which, for all its unfath- omable monstrosity, informs...

...: ‘‘In the interior [the private individual] brings together remote locales and memories of the past. His living room is a box in the theater of the world’’ (AP, 19). Thus the nineteenth-century parlor became not only the protective shell one...