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... terrorist threats. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 prehistory slavery maritime insurance financialization risk Unknown space is unprofitable space. To begin to use space, it is necessary to comprehensively apprehend it, to not only map its boundaries and coordinates but also register...

... a theory of how recent conflicts differ from traditional ones. He wants in particular to be able to distinguish between types of war, and he suggests (p. 23) that there are three main periods: prehistory (siege warfare dominated by weapons of obstruction), medieval (“movement” warfare dominated by weapons...

... prehistory that conforms to and supports current notions of project-led, interdisciplinary, practice-led research and enterprise as the means through which a creative deployment of science and technology will innovate new social forms and new modes of understanding. While the earlier art and tech projects...

... be traced back to antiquity and prehistory, and across other types of toys. Human-shaped toys such as dolls and soldiers, and their modes of play, are constituted in part by this fundamental material distinction. As well as the basic fact of their quantitative difference, their significance and deployment...

... representing women from prehistory to the present, waiting to be collaged on painted and printed sheets of handmade paper. On the border between these two worlds, Spero’s and Golub’s, a makeshift pole had been newly erected reaching to the ceiling. From the top of the pole hung red and black ribbons...

... to represent the prehistory of the banlieue, before the utopia of the cité was imagined, when the bidonvilles reflected the reality of the poor. During my work in Paris, I was confronted with this collision of two forms of suburban despair—the traditional dereliction of the cité and the strange makeshift...

... .” Cultural Politics 12 , no. 3 : 293 – 309 . Taffel Sy . 2016 . “ Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology, and Plastics .” Cultural Politics 12 , no. 3 : 355 – 75 . Yusoff Katherine . 2013 . “ Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene...

... states that there is a continuity of belief and a continuity of related social practices that can be traced back from modern Germany into Germanic prehistory. Once established and systematized (not to mention fortified with generous helpings of conscripted Scandinavian material), it can be called upon...

...? Divinations and prophecies of coming wars are and always have been the prerogative of the Oracle at Delphi. But enough about prehistory, let's move into the dark present. Since September 2001, it is glaringly obvious how precarious the distinction between cattle-breeding and machine-equipped nomads has...

...) argues that May ’68 in France was rooted in a “prehistory” that included successful anticolonial struggles, most notably in Algeria, which ushered in a widespread “embrace” of “a ‘third-worldist’ north/south analysis of global politics.” Third World struggles of the 1950s and 1960s provided “a new...

...-about-new-city-machines-of-post-human-production/222592# . Young Liam Cole . Forthcoming . List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press . Yusoff Kathryn . 2013 . “ Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures...

... . Carrier Willis . 2016 . “ The Invention That Changed the World .” www.williscarrier.com/1876–1902.php . Accessed March 29 . Yusoff Kathryn . 2013 . “ Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene .” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31 ( 5 ): 779 – 95 . ...

... prehistory to the risk society of today. The appearance of stock exchanges in Western Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, often articulated to shipping fortunes, represented new class formations and financial and governmental risks, which were understood as actuarial rather than...

... is a “low-built concrete mass” that is “hunched and misshapen” like the “broad back of a monster,” a structure “so far exceeding [his] comprehension” that he is “unable to connect it with anything shaped by human civilization, or even with the silent relics of our prehistory and early history” (25–6...

...” by collapsing together the two “faces” – technology/modernity; poetry/tradition – of our present situation in the monitor. It would appear that our recovered prehistory includes a sediment of televisual memories, where the TV screen is the true face of the icon in its sanctuary, as sacrosanct as it is a feature...

..., often with no clear social good in mind, we argue below that a relatively unknown “hactivist” movement has also continued to develop that uses ICTs for progressive political ends (see below). In terms of the prehistory of Internet activism, we should also mention the community media movement...

... exempt from this Hellenic-Christian epistemology (Egyptian, Byzantine-Greek, Indian, and East Asian prehistories) cannot “stand fast before the once so magical female and maternal portal in an objectifying, and thus emancipating, certainty of distance” (283), but rather inhabits, lives through...

... booklet, which, in spite of itself, hinted at the promise of another, decolonial economics underneath. The mainstream colonial microeconomic thinking that undergirds most financial literacy campaigns would consign practices like the potlatch to its own long-transcended prehistory, naming it a form...

... quite simply that the natural subject, who is to be emancipated realistically, can come into his own – that is to say be liberated to accede to his pleasure principle – only if he turns against his own prehistory and his moral inhibitedness. The essence of subjectivity is interpreted here as something...

... ), it is spherology’s task to explicitate the tender truths about our atmospherical places of existence ( Schaumdeutung , 2004: 32ff.). But by tracing the “prehistory” of psychoanalysis in the “magical ties” and “magnetic” and “hypnotic” affects and interferences which he finds in the works of Ficino, Bruno, Mesmer...