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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
... aesthetics, by which I mean music as a source of individual pleasure and experience—history, and cultural studies. As a bit of background I should say that Stuart Hall features prominently in the cultural studies of popular music—particularly, if not surprisingly, of black popular musics from North...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Propagandhi does not create new knowledge, their music acts as an alternative historical epistemology that tracks alongside professional historians. This article explains how punks have integrated historical material similar to the aesthetics used in punk zines, fashions, and record designs. It then analyzes...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Abstract This article identifies the rhetoric and sentiment of enthusiasm as a certain specifically Tamil historical-aesthetic-political conjuncture that operates in both an affective register and as a structure of publicity. The “people,” who emerge as a subject of politics...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
... to the aesthetic productions of Africa, the Pacific, and elsewhere as "primitive" inspirations for their own painting and sculpture.The German expressionist painter Emil Nolde was unusual among these in that he, unlike Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, and many other European enthusiasts for primitive art and life...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 222–244.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the fields of aesthetic theory, art therapy, and memory studies. 3 Indeed, artistic representations have plenty to offer when it comes to making sense of historical events and empathizing with the victim when this is otherwise impossible, identifying with the persecutor when this is otherwise too painful...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
... embodied, aesthetic, and integrated-more fully human forms of knowing, creating, and relating that had generally been lost and destroyed byEuropein the modernworld. On the otherhand, they regarded colonized Africans and Antilleans, by virtue of this violent entanglement with modern processes, as rightful...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that might be dubbed “Indian Ocean aesthetics.” It acts as a reversal of presentist teleologies of globalization because, from the vantage point of the Indian Ocean, Western colonial intervention resulted not in the positing of a world market, but quite literally in the enclosure of one. Ghosh’s imaginative...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of nature."Best of all would be if underpinning this scheme:' the astrophysicist Paul Davies explained in regardto a universal theory ofphysics,"there was some sort ofbasic physical principle that bestowed upon it a credibilityand elegance, thus commending it to us on aesthetic as well as scientific grounds...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., and aesthetics—an embrace of pleasure—as an antidote to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the supposed paranoid debunking and sense of mastery that animates critique. Along the way, she finds that practitioners of critique employ a “rhetoric of againstness ,” that they emphasize “the sphere of agon (conflict...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... In previous literary aesthetics, it had been important to represent feelings in the form of distinct and named "passions"; the realist novel by contrast favored a blur of overlapping and not clearly individuated affects.9 This would then also entail that empathy was uncoupled from precise emotive content...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... settler colonialism’s structure of violence. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 settler colonialism Indigenous studies subaltern studies the Western genre Patrick Wolfe Indigenous film In his recent monograph Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics , David...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2013
... as a work of art, the tale, according to Hardesty, "escapes singular interpretations; by which she means that its literary richness, its aesthetic worth, exceeds them. Though his own resistance to his rich employer may give Bartleby political value, the richness ofthe story, for Hardesty, resists...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 April 2020
...: Anthropology and Aesthetics , no. 9 ( 1985 ): 5 – 17 . Ricœur Paul . Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation , translated by Savage Denis . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1970 . ...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 October 2015
... the ones who are subjec tively pro -revolution-nevertheless participate sympathetically in order to reach the inspirational thought of cosmopolitanism, that is, the hope that such a communal existence will eventually materialize.15 Borrowing from Kant's aesthetic work, Arendt makes clear how the spectator...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... There’s certainly no denying that Hall was an integral part of and a gregarious actor in major movements of intellectual, political, social, cultural, and aesthetic change across much of the postwar century. Yet that sense of apartness rings true when it comes to the figure of Hall that emerges...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
... nature ofthe play resisted rasaanalysis in classical aesthetic terms, even ifit was indeed a "classical" play.30 Ofcourse, Tanvir was not the only one. Vijaya Mehta, ofthe theater group Rangayan and later director ofthe well-known film Pestonjee (1987), produced and directed Mudrarakshasa in 1975...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of activist, spurning cold, male obstetricians and their conventional, medicalized pregnancy care. I could pursue political and aesthetic goals as a consumer of alternative obstetric services. I would be treated respectfully. I would be making the healthiest and most caring choices possible for my child...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 139–174.
Published: 01 October 2017
... publication, TheAnswer. As a virtual patriarch, Humbard was composed and well-coiffed.He was a slightly miscast Hollywood leading man-square-jawed and humble but with sublimated, sexy goodnessIf you need a prayerCall 216-929- 8691 He was a preacher prone to embrace the aesthetics of banking.In personal...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., in the aesthetic imagination, the fields ofhistory, or the broader domain ofculture.16 To put all this another way, over the past decade or so, as Malabou's com ment suggests, the biological natural sciences have come to posit a new theory ofhuman being, one which describes human personhood as some thing...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by mainstream platforms, is fragmenting across alt-tech platforms such as Gab and Telegram, among others. 3 Fredric Jameson has read conspiracies as attempts to solve the aesthetic-political problem of representing an increasingly complex social totality ( Jameson 3 ). Following on his provocation...
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