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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that the United States government needs to be overthrown, a new civil war fought, and new forms of freedom therefore made possible. Although Anons looked to Q for “crumbs” that would help them play the game of paranoid truth-seeking, Q was only one node in the game that took on a life of its own and continues...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global countryside. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Many places around the world—Taiwan...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
... these debates around the real-historical Chanakya, Chanakya has remained a popular and reckonable name throughout the centuries. He was invoked in precolonialpoliticaltreatises, classical Sanskrit plays, and collections of popular tales. In modern times, he continues to be invoked in journalism, comics, cinema...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
...-bd92–412a-b14c-baed1a9e7c68/ . Colás Yago . “ What We Mean When We Say ‘Play the Right Way’: Strategic Fundamentals, Morality, and Race in the Culture of Basketball .” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 45 , no. 2 ( 2012 ): 109 – 25 . Cosloy Gerard . “ The 1985...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
... as a signifier of a universal law and its abilityto rise above any particularinstantiation-isdefined by this negation. It is in this sense, Lacan explains, that the phallus is never fully revealed: it "can play its role only when veiled:'9 For Lacan, the symbolic function of the phallus as the veiled signifier...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the futures we might hope to create. ■ Over the past decade, the journal has provided space not only for historians but also for others in the disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences, demonstrating, we would suggest, the central role history plays for those disciplines. The articles engage...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 170–193.
Published: 01 October 2011
... their solitary existence into a public space characterized by collective work and agreement. Desire and the exchange of objects of knowledge would play important roles in the transformation of history and psychology in France at the end of the nineteenth century. As Bonnie Smith's analysis of the practices...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 April 2012
... ofhis family's wealth, Neel loves nothing more than skilled games ofkite flying with his young son and luxurious play in bed with his mistress, a former dancer with exquisite sexual talents. These cultivated pleasures ofthe colonial elite, like "other such favoured pursuits-for ex­ ample, music...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Bonaparte as a beaked shape woven of strips of wood, suggesting a continuity between the subterranean and the aerial; Suzan-Lori Parks, whose The America Play (1995) revolves around a gravedigger who turns his skills to creating a replica of an amusement park called the Great Hole of History; Kiese...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
... expression of an ongoing process of imperial mythmaking through displacement sheds new light on the social role played by built spaces of empire. Laudon’s victory in Belgrade greatly contributed to the Generalissimo’s ascendancy to the pantheon of significant imperial figures. Soon after his death, two...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... and destined to exacerbate an Islamophobic climate. I should admit at the outset that my position is close to that ofthe latter group. The current contraposition between male and female Muslims, with the latter playing the role of the passive victims of non-Western male "congenital violence" who require...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... . “ Digital Saint-Domingue: Playing Haiti in Videogames .” sx archipelagos , no. 2 ( 2017 ). smallaxe.net/sxarchipelagos/issue02/playing-haiti.html . “ Marronage in Saint Domingue: History, Memory, Technology .” www.marronnage.info/en/ (accessed April 9 , 2020 ). Mbembe Achille...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Gabriel Solis Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Stuart Hall was, throughout his life, and no less in Familiar Stranger , a passionate music fan, attuned to music’s capacity to play a generative role in the history of culture at large. And yet, I’ve often been struck by a funny...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of the individual panelists' contributions and incorporating as well the title of his own essay, "Historical Inquiry as a Distributed Nomothetic, Evolutionary Discipline; Macleod harkened back in his remarks to the general (nomo­ thetic) explanatory laws at play in Hempel: Biology, like allsciences, isgroundedon...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2015
... to be threatening and another deemed more harmless. We employ the term "sex" here as a legal term: starting at birth, with civil registration, the law constructs two distinct sexed groups in order to impose a binary norm that resists the play of transgendered identities. Thinking the violence of women interrogates...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
... correspondent made it clear) -in particular in France where I live . . . and vote. I have tried to play a public role advocating what I call "sexual democracy": liberty and equality applied both to gender and sexuality, in terms not only of rights, but also, 266 H I S T O RY ofthe P R E S E N T inseparably...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... (played by Ben Foster and Chris Pine), who hatch a scheme to rob banks. Their aim is to save their family ranch, which has the potential for oil-drilling development, from foreclosure. Hot on their trail are two Texas Rangers, the nearly superannuated white cowboy-detective Marcus Hamilton, played by Jeff...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... bottles and jars, without stopping the furnaces. Many workers were assigned to security patrols, to make sure that other workers were following procedures and that the machines were never at risk of being damaged. Every day, the striking workers played the trumpet of the famous musician Maurice Andre...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
... the present into the past is per­ formed by many historians of the contemporary era, and they are the ones who currently play the main roles in the public sphere and in the profession, the ones who are honored.InRealmsofMemory,thiswas certainly Pierre Nora's way ofproceeding: start from the present to return...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in solidarities, sororities, and communities.22 One more caution: We should not forget that while life might look a lot like tragedy inzones ofwar and peace-making, it still goes on. 23 In the play, asAntigone dies physically, Creon dies politically. In the contexts in which we must dwell, however, and despite...