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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Gary Wilder Copyright © 2017 University of Illinois Press 2017 Mal<ingFreedom Time Gary Wilder This article is an expanded version ofan informal talk given in March 2015 as part of the History ofa Book lecture series hosted by the Princeton University English Depart ment. The talks are meant...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 October 2015
... occasion a series offlashbacks-to Arendt's research in Jerusalem; to her time in Marburg as Martin Heidegger's devoted student and passionate lover; and to discussions with friends and colleagues at dinner parties, conversations that become heated with regard to her iconoclastic and contested...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 160–197.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Sara Pursley Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 The Stage ofAdolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq Sara Pursley Modem understandings ofchildhood and adolescence, as a number ofschol ars haveshown...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Michelle Stephens Abstract In the early 2000s, Dipesh Chakrabarty powerfully defined the historical terms at stake in the shift from the postcolonial to the Anthropocene era, arguing that the posthuman image of a world without us profoundly contradicts historical practices for visualizing time...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... who summoned them into being. Saved in the nick of time by the Sorcerer, Mickey the apprentice is chastened, recognizing that spells and charms have a logic of their own that can quickly spiral into unintended crises. The skill of the sorcerer, the scene reveals, is more than a simple casting...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ones as our bodies and their bodies change, mutate, transform into the dark terrain that this pandemic has made a certainty. The first time I flew back to Sri Lanka after ten years in the UK, and every time for the first ten years afterward, I cried as we began to land and the plane swooped over...
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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...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and actually reverting them back to the practice of accounting for deep times in historical writing. The argument proceeds, in a first step, by analyzing the ties between modern European mortuary cultures and historical writing. In a second step, the history of humanitarian moralities is brought to bear...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Lisa Tilley Abstract The plantation continues to expand across contemporary frontiers, remaking social orders and ravaging ecologies in the service of value extraction through commodity production. This article revisits the “strange industrial order” of the plantation in 1950s Indonesia at a time...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
... construction of the subject in our time. Works Cited Acker Caroline . Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2002 . Alexander Bruce . “ Addiction: The View from Rat Park...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and times carves out a privileged zone of exhausted and victimized humanity, with significant implications for addressing the injuries of violated human beings in Europe and elsewhere. Throughout, this article examines how psychoanalytic approaches to the history of the traumatized subject supplement...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 107–121.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Caroline Arni; Catharine Diehl Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 "Moi seule" 1833: Feminist Subjectivity, Temporality, and Historical Interpretation CarolineAmi Translated by Catharine Diehl In 1833, a time abounding with combative pamphlets, a particularly explicit...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of ecological catastrophe and the idea ofspecies reminds us that this "is also the time when human beings switched from wood and other renewable fuels to large-scale use offossil fuel-first coal and then oil and gas:' "The mansion of modern freedom;' Chakrabarty thus observes, "stands on an ever-expanding base...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 59–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
... has chosen a slogan, which instead of bringing to mind the vast distances its employees cover every day, points to something else: what they do with time. The verb"synchronize" is composedofthe Greek prefix .zyn,"together;' and the word chronos,"time: In its transitive form, to synchronize refers...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as of historical accounting—for our practices of remembering COVID-19. dwai@mit.edu Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 COVID-19 Spanish flu historiography India Global South The brevity of the influenza pandemic of 1918 posed great problems to doctors at the time. . . . It has...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in the realm of the lesser death we confront the deadly enjoyment of our catastrophic times, confronting das Ding as a radical evil around which we must keep our distance and yet ethically orient ourselves. It is in this impossible space where humans confront the excess of their drives that a meaningful...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
... oftenreads thehandyformula ofcrisis as an explanation ofthis: a"crisis" ofhistory,"dis oriented" history, it has beensaid,whileour relationship to time has continued to change.With our future closed off, the past has been engulfed in shadow and the present has become our sole horizon.1 In a world that now...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
... , no. 1 ( 2006 ): 89 – 102 . Associated Press . “ Larry Bird Says Bar Fight Was His Fault: ‘. . . in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time.’ ” Los Angeles Times , November 9 , 1985 . https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-09-sp-3703-story.html . Associated Press . “ The NBA Playoffs...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 45–51.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and recurred as many as forty times between 1832 and 1914 ( McNeill 269 ). Yet, in contrast to his ubiquitous criticism of the crowded trains and steamships and arbitrary international public health regulations that fed the recurrence of devastating outbreaks, Mirim Khan devoted considerably less space...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 April 2023
... already vulnerable communities from a public health crisis. For several others, the looming threat of a virus could not justify giving up critical momentum gained by protestors. There was scant time for discussion or deliberation. That very evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a brutal...
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