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...Figure 1 Surati (2019), detail. Natural rubber, 250 × 150 cm / 210 × 100 cm. Exhibition view, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, 2020. Photo by Randhir Singh. ...

.... It was almost too good to be true. . . . Whenever there was an acute demand for a certain material on the international market—ivory in Victorian times, rubber after the invention of the inflatable tire, copper in the full industrial and military expansion, uranium during the Cold War, coltan in times of mobile...

... fragility. At one point she ends up “crouched, shivering, in front of the radio,” in an attitude that frightens her daughter: “‘Mom, are you all right? Mom, you’re not –’ Barbie was terrified about something. Her voice sounded pulled out tight, like a rubber band about to snap. ‘You’re not … sick...

... of an eight-foot piece of 2x4 dimensional lumber, a door, a rubber motor mount, and a concrete column. Produced by Amelyn Ng. ...

...Figure 1 Over one hundred thousand life vests and rubber boats lie in a ten-meter-high pile on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Rasmus Degnbol, Europe's New Borders (2015). ...

... that plastics were crucial for numerous popular media technologies. While the earliest records were made of rubber and then shellac, the vinyl LP record introduced in 1948 by Columbia Records greatly increased both the storage time and fidelity of recordings and remains the standard format for records. Magnetic...

... unspeakable things: an extreme pressure inside her body, a wind tunnel blowing through her organs. Her legs were rubber. They were dream legs. She needed to move these dream legs to convince the surgeons that she could feel what was going on down below. Speaking of her trauma requires dwelling...

... and as guides to political action. No mechanical-technological or rubber stamp facsimile, Virilio’s decorative gesture and signature are made by a signatory with cultural authority and political direction. With its elaborate V and exclamation mark embellishment, Virilio’s distinctive “Vive la Vie!” on his...

..., and a white woman. The scene is framed by a number of cars whose headlights illuminate the central figures. The six white men, cloaked in rubber joke-store masks, have wrestled the black man to the ground and are in the process of castrating him. The white woman, with whom the black man is said to have...

... was a British consul in the nineteenth century. Casement became radicalized when he saw the reality of colonialism in operation in the Congo and in Peru. He led investigations into atrocities in the Congo and on South American rubber plantations, and he became an Irish nationalist and activist. Before...

... by an eighteen-year-old Afghan male asylum seeker in Sicily. Here he recounts two attempts to enter the EU: From Afghanistan I went to Pakistan; from Pakistan, to Iran; from Iran, to Turkey, Greece and then Italy. Part by car, part on foot, part on a rubber dinghy, at sea…. Then, inside a truck…. I...