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...Keri Facer Abstract This essay argues that thinking about university futures requires not only practices of critique and desire, but practices of rigorous and reflexive imagination. Building on Bill Sharpe's three horizons framework, it argues that debates about university futures are dominated...

... no place in the sexual lives of people, who tend to experiment time and again with what's opaque or not fully knowable about their desire. Because saying yes simultaneously signifies desire and fear of experimentation, curiosity and vacillation, cravings to try things out and wishes to stay put...

... was on my horizon. It was there as a desire and discomfort. Because my excessive readings, my fascinating university studies and their approach to Latin American literary history, had of course wrought havoc and imposed limits on the task of writing that were too rigorous. A space had opened up where...

...Karen Benezra [email protected] © 2022 Karen Benezra 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire is a book about “a movement underway,” as María Pia López...

... and #VivasNosQueremos. What started as an act of public grief and defiance against patriarchy rapidly found an angry but also unexpectedly upbeat tone, a combination of collective fury and exhaustion expressed in highly theatrical and political performances of affection and resistance. “We are moved by desire” became...

... heart—reveal black theology's abjection and alienation from its own stated desires for redemption. The article argues that this debasement of black theology opens onto its significance for black thought. As a form of black thought, black theology and its ongoing crisis of meaning crystallize...

... such configurations through Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2008). In the novel, narrated largely by the reincarnated specter of an executed landlord, desire and loss travel between historical, carnal, and cosmic registers while operations of violence, politics, and memory both evoke and depart from...

... that marks it even among the left, and open it instead onto those cases of anticolonial politics that did not play out, at least initially, as a desire for the forward march of progress and its terminus in the state form? In these cases, how do we move past the language, or more precisely, the grammar...

... on collective hope and emancipation against his grandson's vision of an individualistic critique based on desire. It considers the critical and political writings of Husayn Muruwwa and Rabih Mroué's performances, video lectures, and interviews to explore specifically how they represent hope in relation...

... with language loss, without losing the capacity for laughter and joyfulness. The arts of the trickster are his answer. For Rush, the question is: what changes can we be making now to head off crisis, and what language can make such change meaningful and desirable? We also see the two writers striving to make...

... and antiblackness that in turn illuminates how the aesthetics of Puerto Ricanness can be antiblack, a claim that calls into question Puerto Rican nationalism's desire or need for ethnic difference. [email protected] © 2024 Judith Rodríguez 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...

... in places other than their historical homelands? How might the practices of people in the context of forced mobility, who aspire to cross a border to elsewhere or to return to their homes, be reflective of something other than the desire to settle in a land? [email protected] © 2024 Natalia...

.... After apartheid, the South answers to a desire that reaches beyond race as symptom toward a practice of post-apartheid freedom. Race, the article suggests, is perhaps better apprehended as supplement where the inventiveness of the modern university has hitherto resided. Apartheid in this reckoning...

..., within the ruination capitalism has produced, it is possible for political and economic reconfigurations to arise. What is at stake here are possibilities for critical agency today, particularly in contexts ruined by forms of intensive exploitation, contexts where a collective desire to be different...

...Carlos Palacios Abstract Critical theory has long resisted the notion that an “invisible hand” can operate within the real social dynamics of a free market. But despite the most radical desires of the socially critical imagination, the optimization of that “spontaneous order” or depersonalized way...

... in these movements from the start, she contends. Quite strategically, however, the NUM (Ni Una Menos) movement transforms the force of mourning into desire, that slippery impulse that manages to bring together a political sisterhood emerging out of loss. This fundamental attachment between mourning and desire—which...

... it also tends to take the form of jus and therefore potestas . Consistent with such premises, Benjamin's effort to arrive at a deeper conceptualization of Gewalt , the plexus of movement and desire—and of resistance—cannot be “juridified”; it cannot be made into law, codified, reduced to written...

... to the future, a claim of foresight, or a statement of desire, is frequently an exercise in enclosure. Indeed, the long and often murky history of the field of futures studies in the United States and Europe points to the appropriation of futures projections and techniques as instruments of neoconservative...

...” as a specific (academic) form of self-restraint: Study turns one into a student, which is to say, someone whose desire is structured by the voluntary assumption of limits on the sayable and the thinkable, limits that entail distinctions of true and false. These self-restraints on speech are not antithetical...

... in their structure substantial forms of haptic, folded, material experience; their ‘superficial’ texture is touchable and therefore touching, and can even convey material relations, creating forms of encounter.” 7 Algorithms may embed their coders' desires or biases, of course. But they recognize, insofar...