... are surveyed – the expert, the reporter and the witness – with the third focused upon since it has increasingly become an expressed self-identity or ideology of anthropological research within scenes of intervention. Witnessing offers a return to a position of a kind of disinterestedness following on the binds...

... 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...

...) and especially timbre as witnesses and eruptions of the potentiality of the general intellect that can never be properly actualized. By analyzing timbre as a fugitive force that desubjectifies those gathered around music, the author argues that it provides an example of the opening necessary for the subjective...

...Ethan Stoneman; Joseph Packer Abstract The last decade witnessed a drastic reconfiguration of American conservatism by way of a newly emergent and energized dissident right. Beyond the question of ideology, this article argues that an essential aspect of this realignment occurs at the level...

... epoch,” a time witnessing the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technologies of the spirit. This is the time of the simulacrum of the real and the circulation of symbolic exchange and death. Both thinkers are interested in reinterpreting the concept of epokhē to consider psychic individuation...

... of violent encounters between the French army and Algerian guerilla fighters, their narratives cover daring eye-witness accounts of war crimes, including acts of torture at times described by the perpetrators themselves while catering to the expectations of a global audience. Florent Emilio Siri’s L’ennemi...

... transcripts, and the richness of her “forensic imagination” (71) set an implausibly high bar. The power of the material witness derives from its ability to hover over the doublings—event/evidence, sound/vision, presence/absence, aesthetics/politics, technical/imaginary. The book is both a material witness...

... and practice. In this issue, for example, contributors deliberate and discuss imaginative and contemporary conceptions of cultural politics that range over Maoism and war, terrorism, the anthropology of witnessing, communicative capitalism, the Internet and oppositional politics, Hardt and Negri’s Empire...

... witnessed the first discussions of bull’s-eye lanterns, while at the same time threatening their private use with draconian punishments. In German principalities, this injunction was directed especially at poachers, whose lanterns (long before the invention of highways and headlights) threatened to deprive...

... with vermin, contact with blood or excreta; forcing the detainee to witness or carry out masturbation, copulation, or other sexual acts; forcing detainees to witness or engage in blasphemy, defilement, and sacrilege; implanting a sense of helplessness through arbitrary arrest, random punishment...

... and peoples. The outer zone, the sacred, a vaster and unseen reality, the future yet to be witnessed, a leap into the unknown, and the moment when we lose self-identity are among his references. Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality , by Lingis Alphonso , Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... up on the floor of a funeral home; the owners of those phones had already been reduced to ash. No words” (February 13). “You begin to see things you never imagined humans were capable of,” Fang Fang comments, “That experience allows you to witness things that were once unimaginable. You are left...

... of the Art Institute of Chicago to her new reinterpretation of Maypole/Take No Prisoners . My deepest gratitude to Nancy Spero for the opportunity to witness and to document her remarkable Maypole , and to the artists Samm Kunce, Mary-Beth Gregg, and Gina Miccinilli. 1. Owen, Wilfred. 1986...

... is the affect that attests the presence of the figure? It does not seem that the figural and the sublime operate on the same plane, because they consist in different modes of response to the event: “Here the event is a demand that we bear witness to the existence of a differend without imposing a linkage...

... of African Americans and Latinos were drafted to fight in Vietnam, connecting the civil rights movement with the Vietnam War as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. became the moral leader of the anti–Vietnam War Movement. 9 Spero sought a contemporary eschatological language to record and bear witness...

... are those who witness and are resigned to the rupture of the modern condition brought about by the advent of linguistic and discursive pluralisms and who break with the state-centric hopes of emancipation, equality, and progress inherent to humanist forms of social and political thought. 4 On the other...

... on the top; you cannot get justice in court; the prosecution often produces fake witnesses; the police are as crooked as the people they arrest. This scale, and others like it, determine the course of behavioral and psychological treatment and adjustment to which an inmate will be assigned in prison...

... witnessed than in the reality makeover television genre, a subset of lifestyle media that incorporates the individual quest for self-improvement with the refashioning of bodily appearance and commodity consumption ( Raisborough 2011 ). In McRobbie’s words, the makeover format involves “the transformation...

...-saturated state of our current culture. But his crisis is not brought about simply by the quantity of images we encounter. It exposes a breakdown in our belief in the ability of photographic documentation to bear witness. The project was the outcome of Jaar’s 1994 trip to record the survivors of genocide...

... with the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Zongli Yamen) and ends with the establishment of the Ministry of Posts and Communications (Youchuan Bu) in 1906. The two dates mark a period in which the Qing witnessed an unprecedented transformation in diplomacy, bureaucracy, and communications. But this book...