... being used widely; however, these ideas were sutured to the Global South long before this pandemic, through sanctions regimes, occupation, and conflicts that restricted movement and disrupted supply chains. Patronage, then, was one mode in which maritime laborers navigated a geopolitical realm suffused...

... understood imperialism to be historically. This essay looks at two understandings of imperialism, one coming out of Marxist theory and another out of a Foucauldian understanding of power as developed by Hardt and Negri in their book Empire (2000), and then goes on to show that both are helpful, though...

..., war, or criminal justice. This article seeks to revise that dominant characterization. In fact, the medicalization trend is only one part of a broader discursive shift, in which addiction has been normalized as a form of attachment and conduct—rendered ordinary, even predictable or natural...

...Joan Wallach Scott Abstract “Archive Angst” is a meditation on one historian’s attempt to create her own archive and the questions and challenges it poses. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 archive representation personal correspondence public/private distinction history...

... insights into how we perceive, record, and share the complexities of temporality. The aim of this article is to demonstrate, with the help of various works by Walter Benjamin—works in which his attunement with psychoanalytic concepts is of special interest—that all historical writing must yield, in one way...

.... The notion of history that his essay foregrounded, however, can itself be historicized as a fantasy of modernity, one Édouard Glissant described as “History [with a capital H ].” Using Glissant’s psychoanalytically inflected insights as a starting point, this article argues that our dominant modes...

.... While genocide and nuclear catastrophe oriented the world imagination toward the specter of planetary annihilation, the “final solution” and the atomic bombings also cleave from one another in significant ways. In the space of postwar Europe, the history of the Holocaust is settled: Nazis were...

... 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. Both close and transtextual readings are necessary. If approaching a text...

.... In Tien’s practice, one can learn how the liberatory kernel of religion and the truth of sexual difference—key components of moral treatment in nineteenth-century asylum reform—became amplified by emerging paradigms of neural nets and information processing. In Tien’s practice—what he called Electric Love...

... Arabia, one that demolition and historical revision—now mundane universal practices—seek to permanently erase. Doing so also delivers profound lessons on the figure of the migrant as scholar, on the imperative of transcending national history, and on thinking of history itself as punctured by continuous...

... announce their purpose, in yellow letters on both sides:"Synchronizing the world ofcommerce:' The owner of the vans is UPS, United Parcel Service, which is one of the world's largest logistics companies, transporting all kinds ofgoods and materials to every corner ofthe globe. To promote its services, UPS...

... [. . . .] It is one ofthe elementary distinctions-historical and actual-between European and Asiatic humanity [. . . .] It is one of the pre-existing conditions of our existence as civilized white men [. . . .] Strike it out, and you destroy our very being; and when wesay our, we mean our race-a racewhich has its...

... it? In effect, history was supposed to be the science only of the past: a pure scienceaccording to Fustel de Coulanges, one that decodes documents in the silence ofthe archives.With Fernand Braudel in the middle ofthe twentieth century, the historian of the longue duree saw himself yet again as someone who...

... ofone another, to consider whether one girl might have attended to the other as she passed. Did their suffering become shared or did the mutual terror of the unknown cultivate a common knowledge that developed into relation-the anom alous intimacy of cargo?2 In this experiment with narrative...

... fantasies (aiming at becoming an ego-ideal, being in the know and therefore superior) and binds the individuals to one another. Authority does not operate in group psychology as a form of coercion or brute power but rather as a promissory note or a lure. For the Anons, the failed prophecy is always about...

..., the insurgent universality of1793 is one that both opens up the political form of the state and introduces possibilities for radical social and political change. From the Liberal Frame to Politics Beyond the State Human rights, wrote Bruno Bauer, were "only discovered by the Christian world during the last...

...Ian Baucom Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age ofNatural Science Ian Baucom In the Winter 2009 issue of Critical Inquiry, Dipesh Chakrabarty published an essay entitled "The Climate ofHistory: Four Theses: Widely known as one...

... and ofdifference in and by Islam; the acceptance ofdivergence, openness to the other, and the striving to develop a spirit of tolerance and ofcompromise.3 Without these goals, one leaves the door open to ostracism, intolerance, and the impoverishment ofthe self; in a word, to all forms offundamentalism...

... of Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza:PracticalPhilosophy (19 70) , specifically the unfolding ofthought and thought's non-individual nature (that a thought is not a bounded "thing" produced by a "mind-in-a-vat") .2 I focus on these texts because they fore­ ground the important question: how is one trained to think...

... interchangeablywithit. This interchangeability can be glimpsed in one significant mid-nineteenth-century juncture: "The Great Interna­ tional Exhibition" of 1862, the first in the series of world's fairs to deploy the new word.2 The first exhibition in the series, held in 1851 in the Crystal Palace in London's Hyde...