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Zrima: The Colonial Flow
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Amir Reicher Abstract This article is about a particular kind of settler-colonial phenomenology. It is based on almost two years of anthropological fieldwork in the West Bank, during which the author lived in an illegal Jewish outpost settlement in the Judean Desert frontier. Despite being...
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Adjacent Histories: Reading Riley’s “Am I That Name?” against Contemporary Debates in Feminism
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the historical situation—in feminism and more generally—that occasioned Riley’s 1988 work while also reading her work in relation to the challenges of our current moment. Riley’s phenomenological account of the inconstancy of gendered being is read for its resonances with contemporary transfeminist work while...
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Bound by the Commons of Death: Plague, Pandemic, and the Indian University
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... through the university’s possible exchange with death. I will call this phenomenological. Phenomenology can address (an experience of) death as embodied in the experience of the university. Can death be the predicament of the university, when through its entire history the latter has struggled...
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Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 169–186.
Published: 01 October 2015
... rather than concentrates the past. Jewett's phenomenological rendering of the past as a picture removes her heroine's childhood from genealogical time, as ifthe past can be represented by an image that will shift depending on the shifting perspective of the present. In so doing, she disassociates...
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The Bones in the Concept: Big History, Theodor Adorno and Second Nature
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 63–86.
Published: 01 April 2016
... ignation, bones appear in the Phenomenology ofSpirit to mark the decisive movement from observing to acting reason.Hegel ventriloquizes the bud ding pseudoscience of phrenology in order to stage a deeper meditation on how it is reason that overcomes the apparent opposition between subject 72 HI STORY...
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Decolonization and Diaspora
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... alternatives,” such as “fantasy of a return to reconstituted one-ness” (198–99) or transcendence of the colonial past. Hall’s is a phenomenological rather than an ontological conception of diaspora. Though “identity has necessarily been a political issue . . . both in the Caribbean and in Britain” (248...
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Theses on Theory and History
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 157–165.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., relations, experiences, and meanings, they cannot do without a solid grasp of critical theory (whether it be semiotic, psychoanalytic, Marxist, hermeneutic, phenomenological, structuralist, poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, queer, etc.) as well as an understanding of the history of historical...
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The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age of Natural Science
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2012
... encounter with political history to become a work ofliterary phenomenology, a meditation on the opacity ofthe other and the violence that is directed toward the other and the opaque? Whatever the response to that question, the broad criti cal tendency has been to assess the problem of the historical...
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Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
... ideal of the nineteenth-century Anglo-American slave narra tive, so too ought we not expect all theoretical reflection to take the form of a nineteenth-century philosophical treatise like Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Perhaps, then, what Hartman calls "our desire for a liberated future" depends less...
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Identity: Words and Sequences
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 October 2020
... for identity. In fact, I do believe that within Marxism we find elements of this dialectic: the development of class consciousness according to historical laws; the ethical and phenomenological critique of capitalist society, which aims at the transparency of social relations; and finally, an affirmation...
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Interrupting “The Sadist’s Gaze”: The Poetics of Denise Riley’s Feminist Thought
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to the “phenomenology of inhabiting a sex” (97). To point out that we may be, at times, “ soaked in immediate awareness of our sex” (96) does not presuppose our bodies are where women begin. Riley proposes that, to foil and resist the ways women conflates the “attributed, imposed, and the lived and then sanctifies...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... W. F. The Phenomenology of Mind , translated by Baillie J. B. . 1807 ; repr., New York : Humanities Press , 1964 . Kailasapathy K. On Bharathi . Madras, India : New Century Book House , 1987 . Kant Immanuel . “ The Contest of Faculties .” In Kant Political...
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Digital Commemorations of Slave Revolt
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... bridge for the transmission of abstract concepts such as the sublime, the horrors of slavery are apophatic—they cannot be contained in syllables and phonemes. Digital forms of commemoration highlight and limit the spectator’s interaction with the historical narrative and, in a phenomenological sense...
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The Metapharmacology of the “Addicted Brain”
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 194–218.
Published: 01 October 2011
... thatFoucault had in mind.66 Working with phenomenological accounts of craving episodes set within places where drug use would be highly likely to occur, Childress worked backwardsin the chain ofneurochemical eventsthattypicallyled her patient/subjects to relapse. She saw that behavioral interventions occurred...
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Paranoid Publics
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., and so on. Projection is a psychological mechanism that operates in an obscure zone between epistemology and phenomenology; when indulged in the grip of paranoia, it replaces knowledge with knowingness. In the internet age, its privileged genres are the headline and the meme. Destructive forms of mass...
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In the Interest of History
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., for interest’s malfunctioning or impotence, and for the tenuity both of interested self-states and of what is of interest to them. Regarding the phenomenology of interest, Heidegger (in what was originally a lecture delivered in 1951) complained about a lack of contemporary readiness to “learn thinking,” which...
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On Becoming Less of the World
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 88–116.
Published: 01 April 2018
... ofthe phenomenological tradition, see Pheng Cheah, What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as WorldLiterature (2016) . 13. Compare Sanjay Subrahmanyam's account ofsixteenth century world history to David Armitage's account of international history: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "On World Historiansinthe...
