...Henry A. Giroux 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 further emptied of any critical...

...Joseph Pugliese Duke University Press 2007 Biometrics, Infrastructural Whiteness, and the Racialized Zero Degree of Nonrepresentation Joseph Pugliese Introduction This essay examines the point of intersection...

... as disciplinary society or imperial state” ( EE , 205); in other words, they must think ontologically as well as sociopolitically. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 In the Neighborhood of Zero: Ontology and Pedagogy Jeanette McVicker Analogous...

... and the resulting instrumental and mechanistic tendencies of twentieth-century life. Adorno’s fractured and aphoristic Minima Moralia is a reflection on the “damaged” nature of exilic existence; Spanos’s In the Neighborhood of Zero decries the massive destructive potential, on both global and personal levels...

... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 American studies hermeneutics ontology pedagogy theory Scholarship in the Neighborhood of Zero: William V. Spanos in Theory and Practice David S. Randall and Robert P. Wilson This special issue of boundary 2 has...

... of this experience, as elaborated here, speak in and through every word of his work and as such have formative power for the future because everyday life now is, as the title of this memoir declares, In the Neighborhood of Zero , that is, ever on the verge of extinction. What other critic’s work of the last half...

... the governing fictions. These phrases also inaugurated a symbolic drama that would subsequently transform the primary integers in the narrative the nation had formerly told itself into terms—Ground Zero, Homeland, Operation...

... Studies [1995], Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after “Moby-­Dick,” 1851–1857 [2010], The Legacy of Edward W. Said [2009], and In the Neighborhood of Zero [2010 Spanos has characterized his way of receiving these legacies as a practice of improvising affiliations between...

..., with symbols of female sexuality acting as powerful, liberating political messages. • • • • Two recent novels, Okolo nolia (Close to zero) (2009) and Pokhod na Kreml’ (Procession to the Kremlin) (2010), meditate on the political dynam- ics of Putin’s Russia in opposite ways. Published...

... of divergence of all the struggles and movements exists whether they accept the idea of permissible dose or persist in zero-­becquerel in principle. Here, then, is the first question: “Why did Japan dare to introduce nuclear power after Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” One approach to answer this question...

... University Press . Geil Abraham . 2014 . “ Writing, Repetition, Displacement: An Interview with Jacques Rancière .” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 47 , no. 2 : 301 – 10 . Harman Graham . 2011 . Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy . Winchester (UK) : Zero Books . Klein Naomi...

... that Jack Kerouac was raised by French Cana- dian immigrants in Massachusetts). In 1944, while Spanos was a teenage prisoner of war in Germany after the Battle of the Bulge, his relation to America was disconnected and reset. He encountered “the neighborhood of zero,” the unimaginable death and ruin...

... within, because it also signaled the death of the Resurrection and a return to life as actualization of mortality. Living with a sense of utter mortality, of plain finitude, diminishes the hold of death over life. If death is zero, then all life before it curiously becomes infinity and plenitude...

... of Edward W. Said (2009), and Herman Melville and Contributors  245 the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851–1857 (2009). Two books are forthcoming: In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir (Univer- sity...

...-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art. The Frontiers of Theory. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Spanos, William V. In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 210 boundary 2 / Fall 2010 Stalling, Jonathan...

... art through a new postmodel tactic: “I next plan to print a real paper note instead of a model, and its denomina- tion will be the ‘Zero-Yen­ Note.’ I will accept the applications from those of you dear readers who are desirous of one” (SINO, 73). Akasegawa would print his Greater Japan Zero...

... and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Fisher Mark . 2009 . Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? London : Zero Books . Khalidi Raja . 2014 . “ The Economies of Palestinian Liberation: How the PLO Went from Building a Developmental State...

...., 2007. Sturken, Marita. Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Okla- homa City to Ground Zero. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Sutton, Virginia Chase. What Brings You to Del Amo. Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2007. Taylor, Mark C. After God...

...: if everything is there, nothing means. The Shan- non measure of information is based on the probability of the codon occur- ring in the code: if it’s always going to be there, there are zero bits. Thus Shannon measures by exclusion: information measured by how much is not there. A high number of bits...

... with, the individual experiences the world as potentially infinitely meaningful. The blank “inhumanity” of the outside encloses the interior, infiltrating it, threatening at any point to reveal that infinity of meaning as nothing, as zero, perhaps even less than zero. This is the specter haunting Tony Krause...