... clinics and meetings with people at the Isha L'Isha–Haifa Feminist Center, and these in turn provided me with interview material from women who had donated, sold, or intended to sell their eggs and with women who wanted to buy eggs. 3 My ambition is to look more closely into the gray zone where...

... it as it is but we don't know what we want it to be . We arrived in Syria in January 2005 having done considerable research on “preventive war,” “preemption,” and “imminent threat,” with particular emphasis on how these concepts and practices affect the experience of time. Over a period of a year in Damascus, we...

... accident, a catastrophic incident that is experienced simultaneously and universally. While Virilio is supported for drawing attention to the technologically mediated accidents that threaten hyperconnected societies, his method and focus are found wanting. His preference for suggestion over qualification...

... of integral reality is ironically represented by the very moment of its apparent completion. It is this paradox, the paradox at the heart of power, which ensures that integral reality, a world of satisfaction and self-identity, is never a utopia where we want for nothing, but rather a dystopia of despair...

...Taylor Mitchell Abstract This article analyzes Tash Aw's novel We, the Survivors and Jewel Maranan's documentary film In the Claws of a Century Wanting , works that trace a poetics of survival as neoliberalism's good-life fantasies become decreasingly credible. It proposes that Aw's and Maranan's...

... ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the assumption to be considerably wanting. We suggest that what we are actually witnessing is mere acceleration...

...Jeffrey J. Williams LJD: Being at Columbia in that period—I was an undergraduate from 1966 to 1970—was a very literary moment. Paul Auster was one of my friends in college, and everybody wanted to be a novelist. It's not like that now, when everybody wants to make a movie or something else...

... wanted to ask what death has done to Baudrillard, to contemporary cultural theory, and to visual culture? We said to ourselves, “Where is that mischievous high priest of postmodernism now who wielded so much theoretical power and cultural influence, where is his notorious impact on the contemporary...

... what the cultural gatekeeper on the other end wants from you (which is a way of protecting yourself from the fact that they don't want anything from you); the humiliation of knowing that you don't know the right people so this probably isn't going to work; the humiliation of knowing you're one...

... me remind you of what a young man said on a reality TV show. He was asked what he wanted to do in the future. His response was: “I want to do celebrity.” He didn't want to become a Picasso, a Shakespeare, or a Godard. He wanted to “do celebrity.” And he had perfectly understood that celebration would...

... mother always secretly wanted to be rid of, an act that, from a purely practical point of view, is unnecessary, given that Lilya's mother has already succeeded in abandoning her. In a similar vein, the aunt's trick of evicting Lilya from her mother's flat, so that she can live there instead, goes beyond...

... specifically. I was not interested in making art about the morality of the Iraq War, or its politics; nor did I want to rely on secondhand images. I wanted to record my own subjective experiences through the role of artist-reporter, and to collect material for larger oil paintings to be done back in New...

... of the thinkers of second-wave feminism. Many African American women, in particular, felt absolutely abandoned by the feminist movement, and I felt like I don’t want to “dress for success” and wear one of those suits. It was always bigger than all that. MLU: I actually was. There were levels of coming...

...: Exactly. What is at stake is that we finally—and in the interest of Europe—go back to the Greeks in order to provide Europe with a viable foundation of thought. Do we want to go back to the New Testament, the Old Testament, or the Koran? For heaven's sake, no! CW: You used to conceptualize “man...

... Chavez perhaps?), China, East Asia, India . . . Mouffe’s analysis is no doubt useful with regard to some of the issues related to peace and conflict we might want to think about here. In particular it enables us to understand that conflict in the Middle East is not natural, timeless, and without...

...: 340 ) “Just talk, talk, talk with you in'it. Yeah, you got the home, the education, the fucking past what weren't full of abuse … and now you want me all tied up in explanations. That's what people like you wan't in'it … But you can't. I haven't had it that simple. Why should you get to put reasons...

... succinctly, collectivism may be a more tenable term to work with, emphasizing popular education and locally grounded new (and old) models of “people coming together to solve and create a world that they want to have.” Struch: This conversation is an attempt to consider how geo-political...

... want to prove causal relationships between variables in the name of establishing social facts. Against the antihumanism of so much contemporary sociology, which has been able to uncritically serve the interests of the state because it considers ethical norms distortions of its value-free methodological...