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...Suraj Yengde Abstract This article theorizes the gravitas of historical solidarity through a budding Dalit-Black archive. It looks at intersections of race and caste projects within the African American public sphere through an anchoring lens of concern for Dalits in India. The Black universalist...

...Yuriko Furuhata Abstract This article examines the intertwined cultural politics of geology, mining, and archival media in the context of Japan's development as an archipelagic empire. The first Japanese geological map (1876) was completed by American geologist Benjamin Smith Lyman, who surveyed...

...Beatriz Jaguaribe Abstract Centered on the mapping of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, this essay explores the relations between cartography, national imaginaries, and personal archives. Undertaken in 1917 by the Rondon Commission during the period of the First Republic (1889–1930), the making...

...Maayan Amir In Eichmann in Jerusalem , Hannah Arendt illustrates the “lesser of two evils” principle by relating the peculiar story of a state archive of photographs of women in swimwear. During the Nazi period, she writes, to receive a marriage license Czech women applying to marry German soldiers...

...Jason W. Buel This essay examines Occupy Wall Street’s attempts to archive the movement from within. It examines the social, physical, and conceptual limits of the Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group’s attempts to create a purely horizontalist, rhizomatic archive that would structurally...

...: The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic Neville Hoad n the inaugural Z. K. Matthews Memorial Lecture at Fort Hare (October 12, I 1 2001) and his speech...

...George Steinmetz; Julia Hell © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 P h o t o - e s s ay The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia George Steinmetz and Julia Hell...

...Janet Roitman Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of “postcolonial studies” in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies...

...Figure 7 Carlos Motta, Untitled (1998). 30 × 45 in., archival inkjet print. Courtesy of PPOW Gallery, New York ...

... stories may disappear for many reasons. The authors call for scholars to help build and sustain this public culture through the work of digital archiving and research, and the authors emphasize a descriptive imperative, as opposed to theorizing, as the more urgent course of action. guobin.yang...

... previously been assigned a peripheral position throughout the ever-expanding “archive of knowledge” (following Foucault) vis-à-vis particular refugee situations and critically interrogates how, why, and with what effect only certain bodies, identity markers, and models of humanitarian response become...

... poker play, and discussion threads from poker forum archives, the article explores how the game and its data-intensive software teach gamblers to act from the vantage of an infinite temporal field in which probabilistic values can be trusted to bear out. Although digital media is often associated...