... of aid and authority. This paper surveys the predicament of the producer of anthropological knowledge “as usual” in such regimes of intervention. What identity does the anthropologist create? What is the self-claimed rhetoric of authority for research undertaken in such situations? Three alternatives...

...Jardar Østbø The Russian authoritarian regime is not necessarily immoral, but its morality shares characteristics with that of street gangsters—and aristocrats. As argued in this article, there are two competing moral orders in Russia—the culture of honor and the culture of dignity. The article...

... that in the face of totalitarianism, a literature of intimacy opens a realm of human experience that is outside the control of the regime. Because it carries a memory of joy, it is radically other to the ethos of the regime. Later, in The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), Marcuse returns to the role of aesthetics when...

... other worlds to light. Through a specifically situated exploration of stygofaunal worlds, knowledge, and mining in Australia, the article asks, How is knowledge-as-illumination complicit with complex regimes of knowledge where knowing in the name of justice is tangled up in knowing as a further...

.... The author argues that these representations play a central role in the reproduction of the Western professional middle class, and in the cultural constitution of a global middle class — professional, affluent, urban, and affiliated by an aesthetic regime of civility that transcends national borders...

..., as well as between resistance and resilience. It seeks to understand how artistic expressions and acts of protest can transgress with nonsensical expressions. Situating itself in the context of postmodernism, authoritarian regimes, and multimedia landscape, this article sees nonsense as an artistic...

... action away from the work regime. It describes how processes of subjectivation sedimented in collective imaginary impact various modes of being together and naming social cooperation. The conclusions propose that the relationship between living labor and knowledge is a nexus that can escape the violence...

.... As such, responding to the ocean's declining conditions with more laws and regulations alone misses how underlying cultural values contribute to the production of ecological harm. This article considers how the imaginary of mastery underpinning dominant ocean governance regimes enables the production and distribution...

...-intensity, counterinsurgency, and regime-maintenance goals (or for recruitment and public relations). For social-movement cultures, such as secular Egyptian revolutionaries, 15M (Los Indignados), and Idle No More, social media is an integral part of life; it is context. Unlike these horizontalist movements...

..., and the demand for homogeneity across elements and media objects—organize temperature management. The thermocultures of media inflect its composition, movements, and temporalities and embed it within existing regimes of capitalism, gender, race, and sexuality. The study of thermocultures offers an alternative...

... of the nature of work, and the nascent eroticization of working relations, under Western neoliberal regimes. 1 This can be purchased through Amazon.com and American Apparel for US$75 at the time of writing. Richardson has a branded pair of actual glasses, too: “Terry,” in the Salt Optics range. Terry...

... what I call the fractious form, in which a tense encounter between different class actors under the regime of precarity becomes the genesis for a volatile cultural practice. Filmography Di san zhong aiqing 第三种爱情 (The Third Way of Love) . Directed by John H. Lee . 2015 ; Beijing : HS Gala...

... University Press 2019 The relationship between art and politics during dictatorial regimes is both contested and fraught, despite many academic and artistic attempts to disentangle this issue. At the same time, facing modern dictatorships’ impact on cultural production and producers is not without...

... became interested in the ways in which these concepts and practices affect the Syrian regime, and, by extension, the people they rule. While our starting point may have been the “Bush Doctrine,” it became clear that the Syrian regime, dominated by the Asad family, uses the concepts of imminent threat...

...Abigail Nieves Delgado The close connection between the face and a political regime centered on the individual has been addressed by other works such as Des visages: Essai d’anthropologie ( Faces: An Essay of Anthropology ) by David Le Breton (2003) . Jenny Edkins’s contribution offers...

... of transformation. Carlo Bordoni (2016) , for one, implies that liquid modernity suggests a very unstable condition because the disintegrative effect of liquidity breaks down the coherence of a particular regime of modernity, producing a temporary period of interregnum before a new regime arises...

... Machado in the case of the 1920s. The monuments themselves, however, expressed an agency beyond the regime’s control. As an assemblage of the human and nonhuman, they spoke of a plantation society, of oppression, and of exploitation: repeating machines of machines flowing through and interrupting...

..., the alliance between capitalism and the politics of resentment is not without its vulnerabilities. What would it mean for the acknowledgment of such indignation to resolve instead into a more universal call for justice (Zalloua 2022 )? As noted above, Turkey's regime of corporate sovereignty has come...

... minor and major forms, but the extent to which it was dedicated to articulating a post-national politics ( Reid 2010a ). Understanding and fulfilling the political potential of his works requires not shifting focus from his meta-analysis of the rupture between classical and modern regimes of cinema...