... in the history of Filipino nationalism. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines Vicente L. Rafael This essay explores a set of telecommunicative fantasies...

... of evolution to treat the maladapted citizen of the technological environment. White fat cells are now understood to secrete a wide range of signaling molecules that modulate inflammation, appetite, and fat metabolism, and many of these molecules are produced within adipose tissue’s distinctive circadian...

.... Jacques-Alain Miller, “Jeremy Bentham’s Panoptical Device” Four of us are standing in the intensive management unit at the state prison. We have moved past the control booth to a central area from which all of the cells are visible, their doors closed, offering fragmentary glimpses...

... of the global city. Both of them seem to suggest that in spite of the overwhelming poverty of many of the township’s residents, new cultures of commodification are emerg- ing. These cultures underlie new aesthetic forms, of which cell phones, cars...

...- tences for Mandela and his comrades Govan Mbeki (father of the current presi- dent, Thabo Mbeki), Ahmed Kathrada, and others. These images and posters are strategically placed at the entrance to Section B (which contained the single cells...

... that are transcended by Trâm’s respect and admiration (mˆe´n phu.c) for the commitment and heroism of the wounded soldier. Trâm, Nhaˆ. t ký Đa˘. ng Thùy Trâm (Diary of Đa˘. ng Thùy Trâm) (Hà Noˆ.i: Nhà Xuˆa´t Ban Hô.i Nhà Va˘n, 2005), 5. In reference to the guerrilla cell, meanwhile, NLF documents referred...

...-governed manipu- lations of spatially schematized cards or cells. And each of these games can be played with more or less careful attention to the decisions they entail. At one extreme, competitive Minesweeper players aim to finish boards as quickly as pos- sible, while FreeCell enthusiasts try to solve...

..., but at the cost of the spirit, which will deteriorate in the restraint chair or cell. Yet the suspended animation of force-feeding doesn’t completely foreclose embodied forms of opposition. Similarly, Dayan (2001 : 28) argues that prisoners who self-mutilate while in solitary confinement make visible what...

... routine stops find them swarmed by throngs with cell phones thumbed to video mode. Freddie Gray died in April 2015 after sustaining a spinal cord injury while in police custody. There was no footage of Gray’s actual death, but the media dutifully looped the same few seconds of cell-phone video showing...

... cell phone to do something: to contact the press, to notify a human rights office, to intervene. A member of the transnational gang circuit known as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, this prisoner (whom I will call Gustavo) explained to Pastor Morales that he was being transferred to El Pavoncito...

... of disability grant. The rules state that a medical certificate can be issued only if the individual concerned is physically unable to work. Some doc- tors consider an individual with a CD4 T-cell count of two hundred or lower to be eligible for the grant.4 Others are willing to sign a medical certificate...

... of him as “very good with computers” was particularly hyperbolic. As the information officer for the Kenyan cell in 1997 – 98, Fazul regularly communicated with al Qaeda members abroad using the safest means available: the Internet. He...

... not only space but also time. On one side of the site are the colonial prisons; on the other side is the maximum-security prison of a later era, doors to the cells now ajar, yellow highveld grass rising in the cracks of the courtyard. The first phase...

... underlying genome sequencing projects has actually fostered a renewed appreciation of disciplines and approaches that had momentarily moved to the backstage of the life sciences in the second half of the twentieth century, such as epigenetics, immunology, physiology, cell biology, and ecology. This attention...

... and burning. In my novel Nampally Road, inside a burning police station, built long ago by the British, the narrator puts out her hand and touches the cheek of Rameeza Be, the woman who had been gangraped by the police. “See, they meet in the cell, in the police station the people will set...

... as ‘natural’ the fact” that detained sex offenders will suffer rape in prison ( Pimentel and Schritzmeyer 1998 : 65). As dreadful as the conditions in this secure cell were, some of the judges and public prosecutors I spoke to complained that its existence violated the constitution by providing unequal...

... and blindfolded and made to lose his bearing. He recollected that during his confine- ment his sight had weakened, but his hearing had become enhanced. His cell phone rang in the midst of the quietude of the Jerusalem hills where another sec- tion...

... that drone bombardment in Yemen had only a localized effect. A mobile phone company had given the political scientist access to the cell phone records of 10 million Yemenis. The data showed that there was a spike in phone calls near the site of a bombing but that it had no “cascading effect” on a national...

... not in terms of cell phones or tablets but in the literally mobile movement of technological resources, media, and information.” Finally, Carrie Tirado Bramen closes our issue by taking a rather banal concept, “niceness,” and exploding it out to explore the cultural work that niceness does. Bramen’s...