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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 95–106.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Elizabeth Weed Intervention "The WayWe Read Now" Elizabeth Weed In literary studies-English literature in particular-there is something like a groundswell ofsupport for new ways ofreading. These new practices bring Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's call for "reparative reading" together with "surface...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to historical representation, which involves reading sources on sex and gender for what they say about adjacent historical categories and constellating discrepant historical situations in ways that speak to ongoing conundrums about identity and alliance. With respect to the latter, the authors consider...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Erin Pineda Copyright © 2015 University of Illinois Press 2015 Civil Disobedience and Punishment: (Mis)reading Justification and Strategy from SNCC to Snowden Erin Pineda Some in our group swaggered triumphantly, like conquering heroes. We had met the enemies at the dreaded county [prison...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... made claims that had to be noted down and addressed by the “powerful men recording the lives and actions of those whom they subordinated” ( Cooper 105 ). Her actions turn on the recorder and are the only reason we can today read her story, a simultaneously novel and quotidian maroon narrative...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Henning Trüper Abstract This article proposes a re-reading of what inclusion into the sphere of the historical actually means in modern European historical discourse. It argues that this re-reading permits challenging a powerful but problematic norm of ontological homogeneity as something...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of deep contestation in which estate workers were organizing to reinvigorate the unfulfilled goals of anticolonial struggles. Reading this moment through the anxieties of European planters in the British archive, this article argues that these struggles deeply disturbed the localized racial labor order...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., for a human life. The article reveals this shift through a set of historical readings across four venues in the period 1980–1993: scientific research, diagnostic protocols, judicial practice, and political rhetoric. More than an empirical advance, this shift in addiction discourse reflects a novel...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... The second section suggests an alternative direction for transnational settler colonial studies by undertaking a comparative reading of two films— Hell or High Water (2016) written by US settler filmmaker Taylor Sheridan, and Goldstone (2016) written and directed by Indigenous Australian (Gamilaroi) director...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Sandrine Sanos Abstract This article proposes that returning Denise Riley’s work on (and troubling of) the category of “women” offers a feminist theorizing and politics that remains both critical and relevant to the political present. It argues that reading Riley again, alongside other anti...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the revolutionaries as hysterical helots should be read as his own provocation for them to clarify their desire, because the purpose of political psychoanalysis is to understand the unconscious desire involved in political acts. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
... at recovery, this article reads QAnon as a part of a symptomatology of the social world. There is no freedom without opinions that diverge from reality, but such divergence endangers freedom. —Adorno, “Opinion Delusion Society” Disinformation is necessary. —Q Witness the self-professed QAnon...
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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...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... are read through two groundbreaking anthologies— Dark Matter , a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds , a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and/or obfuscated in any given present matters. This article proposes palimpsests as a critical tool for analyzing the many histories of the present. To illustrate this theoretical practice, the article offers a palimpsestic reading of a museumized object, the Nubian Temple of Dendur, now at the Metropolitan Museum...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Kolb’s method of “epidemiological reading” to reveal and analyze the racial and imperial anxieties that underlie this understudied text. The article begins with a summary of Madar al-Zar and an account of the sociopolitical context in which it was published. It then pulls back the surface layers...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Caleb Knapp Abstract This essay revisits a familiar but seldom discussed anecdote of same-sex sexual abuse in the archive of Atlantic slavery: the story of Luke in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Through a close reading of Luke’s story, the article advances three...
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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...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Federici respectively. It demonstrates that since its inception, racial capitalism has depended on processes of racialized (re)productive accumulation that are ongoing but not yet fully theorized. At the center of the essay is a close reading of Hortense Spillers’s 1987 contribution “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
... etymological connection with the safety of refuge. The second section uses Thomas Paine’s self-characterizations as a “refugee” to reframe his better-known contributions to rights philosophy. The third section concludes by reading the twenty-seven grievances in the Declaration of Independence as the most...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... explores representations of the past from an unusual place: punk rock music and the Canadian band Propagandhi (1986–present). It asks: Can we read history through punk rock? If so, what do we learn? Punks’ treatment of the past should be integrated into how we evaluate public consumption of history. While...
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