Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 213
Search Results for new
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin of the Work of Art in German New Guinea
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Andrew Zimmerman Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin ofthe Work ofArt in German New Guinea Andrew Zimmerman One of the most important ways that European artists created an identifi ably modern art was by turning...
View articletitled, Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin of the Work of Art in German <span class="search-highlight">New</span> Guinea
View
PDF
for article titled, Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin of the Work of Art in German <span class="search-highlight">New</span> Guinea
Journal Article
The New Old Imperialism in the Arabian Peninsula: An Intervention
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in that light Russia’s recent moves into Crimea or China’s occupation of islands in the South China Sea, over which the Philippines and Vietnam have claimed sovereignty: are these not imperial formations today, though we tend not to think of them in that way? And what about new imperial formations that may...
Journal Article
Modern Translations: Reflections on Postcolonialism, New Ontology, and the Secular
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Philip Balboni; Henry Clements Abstract This article seeks to clarify how scholarship in postcolonial studies and new ontology (the “ontological turn”) has construed the problem of modernity as a problem of translation. Drawing on resources from the field of secular studies, it suggests...
Image
Published: 01 October 2022
figure 1. Dr. Tien with female patient from Videology: Theory and Techniques (New York: Vantage Press, 1978), 55.
More
Journal Article
Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Halle-Mackenzie Ashby; Jessica Marie Johnson Abstract This essay explores two historical subjects, Catharina, an enslaved woman living and working in eighteenth-century New Orleans, and Ruth, a free field laborer in post-emancipation Barbados. Through a careful reading of their different...
Journal Article
Locked Up in Lockdown: Patronage in a Time of Pandemic in the Indian Ocean
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the pandemic, the essay suggests that the pandemic shone new light on preexisting patronage relations. However, these relations were creatively harnessed by laborers in times of crisis. Accustomed to sanctions regimes that restricted movement even before the pandemic, Yusuf facilitated his release through new...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Vicissitudes and Their Inscriptions
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 April 2022
... been variously and “fatefully” rerouted. The second part reads Freud’s defensive presentation of the first case history, the “broken fragment” of Dora and her hysteria, considering Freud’s ambivalence toward his own historiographic operation. Freud’s ambivalence in relation to his new genre...
Journal Article
Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of Capitalism: Rethinking Spellbound Histories in a Time of Crisis
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Elizabeth Heath Abstract This intervention offers a critique of the New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) and its project to write the history of capitalism without engaging Marx’s theorization of capitalism and crisis. It develops this critique by historicizing the food and agricultural crises...
Journal Article
A Managerial Fast Break: Race, Workplace Discipline, and Collective Bargaining Agreements in the National Basketball Association (1970–1990)
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that the NBA’s growth stemmed from new collective bargaining agreements put in place during the 1980s to implement a workplace culture that fit within the broader conservative backlash during the decade. The NBA implemented punishments for drug-based and conduct-based offenses for its players and established...
View articletitled, A Managerial Fast Break: Race, Workplace Discipline, and Collective Bargaining Agreements in the National Basketball Association (1970–1990)
View
PDF
for article titled, A Managerial Fast Break: Race, Workplace Discipline, and Collective Bargaining Agreements in the National Basketball Association (1970–1990)
Journal Article
My Debt to Slavery: White Sex, White Pregnancy, White Maternity
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., the “sexual revolution,” welfare policy, public rhetoric, and public policies in locking in new iterations of racism and racial difference in the post–civil rights era, and the importance of female sexuality, pregnancy, and maternity in constructing arenas for deploying these developments...
Journal Article
Theorizing Palimpsests: Unfolding Pasts into the Present
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of Art in New York City. The structural nature of a history of the present comes into view only when one is able to discern multiple histories, presents, categories, and objects layered together within the palimpsest of history. Works Cited Allais Lucia . “ The Design of the Nubian Desert...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Zrima: The Colonial Flow
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the flow that one is able to understand what drives the settler-colonial practices of this new generation of postideological settlers. More than a worldview, the flow is an existential force that animates these people’s settler-colonial way of being in the world. In disclosing the flow , this article also...
FIGURES
Journal Article
What Cecilia Knew: Reading Reproduction and Marronage in Records of Recapture
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
...S. J. Zhang Abstract This article explores how, in 1784 New Orleans, Cecilia Conway—a recaptured maroon woman—asserted that she was pregnant and thereby leveraged the power of her reproductive labor. Her claims about her body briefly slowed down the system of capital punishment activated...
Journal Article
Hortense Spillers and the Ungendering of (Re)productive Racial Capitalism
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and endures into the present. Racialized (re)productive accumulation exploited she whom Spillers often denotes as “the captive female,” and, also, paradoxically, ungendered her. Ultimately, through examination of the process of ungendering in Atlantic slavery, the essay suggests that Spillers opens up new...
Journal Article
History in an Unfamiliar Key: Propagandhi, Punk Rock, and the Uses of History
Available to Purchase
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...
Journal Article
Containing Contagion in a Garrison State: Field Notes from Kashmir
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-nia-raid-on-apdp-office-and-seizure-of-apdp-documents/ . Al Jazeera . “ Kashmir Men Spend over 100 Days in Jail for Cheering Pakistan Win .” February 16 , 2022 . https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/16/families-of-arrested-kashmiri-students-struggle-to-free-them . Ali Jehangir...
Journal Article
The Age of Fallout
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 October 2015
... on the scale ofearth systems, requiring new logics and optics to support a not yet achieved but necessary planetary politics. Figuring Fallout "Fallout" is a relatively recent term in the English language designating an unexpected supplement to an event-a precipitation that is in motion, causing a kind of long...
Journal Article
Freedom as Accumulation
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... a leather daybook and a pen to note those debits and mark them against an individual's account. Pistol and pen, both weapons in the so-called New South, the threat of a quick death there to reinforce the threat of a slow one.6 In our mind's eye, the red we imagine is probably the blood fresh on Jake...
Journal Article
Left Freudians: The Psychoanalytic Politics of Disobedience
Available to Purchase
History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... ) For Herbert Marcuse, this is a prehistorical mold out of which historical revolts are shaped: “The crime is reenacted in the conflict of the old and new generation, in revolt and rebellion against established authority—and in subsequent repentance” ( 69 ). Freud’s politics, all told, were a labyrinthine...
1
