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... of classic metabolism, in which food was fuel, providing energy and building blocks to the body. Accordingly, metabolic disorders—treatments for which are the explicit aim of much of this research—are increasingly explained and intervened in as regulatory crises, asynchronies, or instances of misinformation...

... to examine what Chinese maps of China can tell us about the Chinese people's hopes and fears, not only in the past or present, but for the future. This essay has two general aims: to demonstrate how China's current national maps have emerged through the creative tension of unbounded imperial domain...

... shares with the war on terror is the idea that we ought to organize our political life around the quest for security and that we can even recover a sense of moral purpose through the response to (environmental) emergencies. Here too the aim seems to be to scare us into submission, rather than open up new...

... and the public activism of many whose forms of political communication are usually ignored, or even denounced as passive. But a more generous definition of the political, one that does not presume liberal democracy as its natural setting or emancipation as its aim, can show how even compliance and personal...

... such a repressive policy toward Muslim women was unanimously embraced by the conservative majority and some left-wing leaders with so little protest. It aims at underscoring the specific phenomena that, on the basis of a new “orientalism,” contribute in France to institutionalizing a category of people on the basis...

...Allison Carruth; Robert P. Marzec This special issue of Public Culture explores forms of environmental image making and visualization in the context of the Anthropocene. The essays aim to spark dialogue about how visual technologies and media—from satellite imaging and military simulation...

...Melissa Tandiwe Myambo South Africa, China, India, and other industrializing countries are receiving increasing numbers of frontier heritage migrants—those who were raised in “First World” countries like the United States and who are now moving to their ancestral ethnic homelands. The primary aim...

... of the archipelago as both a geological formation and a geopolitical territory. In tracing this formative era of Japan's resource extraction and settler colonialism, which precedes and informs the current rush to extract rare earth minerals necessary to maintain global digital infrastructures, this article aims...

...Eric Vázquez Abstract This essay examines the cultural politics of migrant caravans through video testimonies produced by Honduras's Association of Returned Migrants with Disabilities (AMIREDIS). While the stated aim of the 2015 association‐sponsored Caravan of the Mutilated involved raising...

...Mahdi Sabbagh Abstract This essay aims to identify methods and strategies used to manipulate the Palestinian urban fabric. First, the essay will focus on Israeli settler-colonial activity through a study of the deployed tactics of de-development, destruction, and harassment. Second, it will focus...

...’ historic preservation aims. By making diasporic publics legible and increasing the visibility of communities’ settlement patterns and remaining extant features, The TXFC Project elevates stakeholders’ concerns in urban planning domains. In 2020, COVID-19’s social distancing requirements challenged...

... that devalue Black labor. Whereas these histories are lost upon Chinese newcomers, African workers experience working for “the Chinese” through the memory of the mines. With the aim of theorizing emergent formations of race and capital in the Chinese Century, the essay threads this new epoch through...

...Rachel Sherman This ethnographic essay analyzes This Progress , an interactive artwork by Tino Sehgal, shown at the Guggenheim in New York City. This “constructed situation” violates conventional expectations of interaction and art, with the aim of fostering meaningful conversations among strangers...

...Shruti Kapila This article aims to reconstruct Gandhi as a political thinker. In so doing it argues that truth rather than nonviolence was the central category of Gandhian politics. Truth for Gandhi was a capacity that broke with the consensual and took the form of an insistent visibility. Gandhi...

... agenda to the technical project of adaptation. An analysis of interventions aimed at building social infrastructure throughout the city’s hydrological systems reveals how the inclusion of the urban poor is enacted through practices of measurement. While urban politics in Latin America has long revolved...

... an attempt to deny or destroy Palestinian political community, while simultaneously identifying Palestinians as political actors, specifically as bad actors. The aim is to undermine Palestinian political capacity by disrupting connection and organizing, while still deploying the weapon of categorizing...

.... imagining the historical project Untimely Vision: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia Gary Wilder I have no ambitions about finding a solution. I do not know where...

... morality by preventing them from leaving their villages to work in urban garment factories as Juki girls. The program had the additional and arguably primary aim of harness- ing votes in Premadasa’s favor. Garment workers under this state program earn a minimum of 2,000 rupees (approximately $37) per...

... dysfunctioning, which affects our ability to achieve a clear perception of the future. The keener sense of emergency stems from both the primacy of real time and the absence of any reference to a collective aim. What has to be done, there- fore...

... on the beach. One often sees 10- or 12-year-olds taking aim, assisted by their fathers, who themselves take an occasional shot. I Mias sti-uck by the strangeness of the targets- cartoonesque animals and commando figurines pinned...