... for their helpful comments on drafts of this essay. “All I Do Is Think about You”: Some Notes on Pragmatist Longing in Recent Literary Study of Amiri Baraka Jeremy Matthew Glick You made my soul a burning fire You’re getting to be my one desire...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 157 of 237 The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics...

...Ronald A.T. Judy Introduction: On W. E. B. Du Bois and Hyperbolic Thinking Ronald A.T. Judy The idea for this special issue of boundary 2 has a complicated genealogy. Its beginnings go back to the summer of 1985, when I had been...

...Eli Friedlander Discontinued Thinking: A Review of Walter Benjamin’s Selected Writings, Volumes 1–4 Eli Friedlander 1 The publication of Walter Benjamin’s selected writings raises anew the question...

...Anthony Bogues Duke University Press 2005 Working Outside Criticism: Thinking Beyond Limits Anthony Bogues Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well. Where thinking suddenly stops...

... with these questions, this essay develops the notion of theological thinking as a form of critique and a critical theoretical practice for a moment bisected by the (re)turn to theology and the seeming permanence of the theologico-political. Following the examples of James Baldwin and W. E. B. Du Bois, theological...

... to members of the Pragmatism, Performance, and Performativity reading group (Craig Calhoun, Ackbar Abbas, Dilip Gaonkar, Webb Keane, Ben Lee, and Michael Warner), and especially to Akeel Bilgrami, for a stimulating discussion of Donald Davidson’s essay and Bilgrami’s thinking about it. What Should I Do...

... conscious pariah adda Thinking Postcolonial Temporalities with William Spanos Ubaraj Katawal It [Pax Americana] is an apocalyptic “peace” that is not simply a mat- ter of global economic or political or even cultural domination...

.... Eight hundred people died in that election. It was a civil war between February and October. I remember saying to Jackie after the election, “We need to go and pick up our son.” I said to her, “Let's pick him up now, because I don't think I'm going to have a job much longer.” Because Seaga...

... and ultimately bypassing them as irrelevant to us? We would like instead to take siu yi as a point of departure for thinking about the relation between mediation and consumption today. To do so, rather than aim at ethnographic depth, we will approach the ritual descriptively. Of course, there is the obvious...

...John A. McClure In “`Do You Believe in Magic?' Literary Thinking After the New Left,” Sean McCann and Michael Szalay argue that postmodern American novelists, by celebrating “the spontaneous, the symbolic, and ultimately the magical” undermine the good sense of progressive thought and contribute...

... to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge in our present does postblackness offer us, especially in a postrace era? The answer: both blindness and insight. Through a meditation...

... to reconcile the universalist goals that are the legacies of Euromodernity to radical thinking with the demands of cultural voices emanating from newly empowered societies that make their own claims on modernity, especially when contradictions between the two seem irreconcilable. Some claims to “alternative...

... consider his account of its relation to language. Rather than setting an opposition between language and image, I argue that language is the medium in which the dialectical image can emerge at all. I further think of the emerging image as characterizing the mode of presentation of the material...

... to reproduce it by the profession at large, especially in designing their pedagogy. Practitioners of the literary and cultural humanities must continually be aware of their complicity in reproducing a “thinking of colonized and docile bodies in the service of the dominant sociopolitical order whether conceived...

.... The essay argues that Spanos is one of those rare critics who have found a way to align the generosity of ontological thinking with the polemical intensity of political critique. Moving subtly between a poststructuralist epistemological critique of humanism and a robust political-secular advocacy...

...Manuel DeLanda The subject of this essay is the authority structure of institutional organizations. Authority has two aspects: its legitimacy and its enforcement. Max Weber gave us the means to think about the practices involved in the legitimation of authority, while Michel Foucault provided us...

...Charles Altieri This essay argues that an ethics based on the demand of the other simply flees from the typical issues of traditional ethical thinking, which have to concern the self as the primary locus of response and responsibility but also have to justify what can be a demand on that self...

...Samuel Weber Militarization is effective generally through its ability to mobilize not just thinking but also feelings. But any investigation of militarization, whether focused on thinking or feeling, will remain abstract if it does not also consider the forms in which violence occurs...