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... technologies within postmodern architectures. This essay helps establish the origins of the megachurch by tracing the rise of the Crystal Cathedral. The Crystal Cathedral brought automobiles and drive-in cinema (1955–61), then glass, steel, and television (1962–70), and finally architectural postmodernism...

... at the Association of Asian Studies annual meeting in San Francisco in March 1988. Organized by Paul Taylor, it included papers by Eric Crystal, Ruth Barnes, Susan McKinnon, and Paul Taylor; the discussant was Shelly Enington. Reproduced here is a somewhat expanded version of her comments. Parts...

... they crystallize into fixed and definite forms. Then, and only then, can we trace their history backwards. The event illuminates its own past, but it can never be deduced from it.41 For Arendt, it is impossible to discern in advance the cause...

...? Or within? Social Text , no. 56 : 57 -69. Crystal, Jill. 1989 . Coalitions in oil monarchies: Kuwait and Qatar. Comparative Politics 21 : 427 -43. Drucker, Johanna. 1998 . Simulacral exoticism. In Figuring the word: Essays on books, writing, and visual poetics . New York: Granary. Evans...

... about a political mobilization of the masses. Popular national consciousness crystallized into the “imagined commu- nities” (Benedict Anderson) propagated in national histories, which became the catalysts of a new form of collective self...

... we are now integrating computers into our lives. Finally, Erica Robles-­Anderson, who studies the ways media technologies transform space, visits one of the most influential megachurches in America, the Crystal Cathedral. There she shows how a Dutch Protestant denomination with deep roots...

... . “Walla chat”: An ethnographic view of an Israeli Internet chat site (in Hebrew). Kesher 30 : 77 -92. Cochran, Terry. 1999 . The linguistic economy of the cosmopolitical. boundary 2 26 ,no. 2: 59 -72. Crystal, David. 1997 . English as a global language . Cambridge: Cambridge University...

... with and for. Cities seem to acquire their generative energies from these energetic selves—the mad unexplainable forces. In many ways, cities appear to be produced through the madness of the energetic selves. How does one conceive the city as a collective of energetic selves? Perhaps crystal formation provides...

... differently. The modern West is the site of multiple searches: for meaning, spiritual life, authenticity, and sexual integrity. Different Benedict XVI answers are proposed and crystallize in different styles of life. The church can choose to align itself with one...

... of the nonassimilative strategies of European Islam. In Holland, the 2004 assassination by a Moroccan immigrant of Theo Van Gogh, a well-known public figure who personified the Dutch sense of freedom of speech, crystallized and intensified the ways in which issues around migration and Islam have destabilized...

..., and profit. In other words, we are facing the possibility that financial and political contracts become two sides of the same coin. So, we offer you this issue of our journal in the spirit of critical uncertainty, of situations not yet crystallized into contexts, of forms of circulation not yet fully...

... of my own writing. This awareness fused with the need to voice the truths of the female body, precisely that which had been torn away, cast out from the structures of linguistic awareness I had refined, crystallized. I...

... of issue-tizing events by drawing upon familiar anticipatory frameworks of audiences, using metaphors and catchphrases to crystallize meanings into shorthand notations, which sharpen and condense underlying schemata into adversarial positions...

.... There are general things that one can say, but they tend to be too general. So I focus on particular ways of thinking which clearly have a very long trajectory. And at the same time, undergo breaks, which I compare to crystallizations. For instance, the discovery of proof in the eastern Mediterranean...

.... For these actors, both internationally and in the United States, the curve’s shape crystallizes particular uncertainties about the future under the specific conditions of the present.3 However, the fundamental indeterminacy of the future does not fully explain the power of the affects that the curve’s...

..., and the deaths of leading terrorists of the first generation, and another with the election of chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1982. The student movement had pushed at the limits of the bourgeois public sphere, challenging artificial divisions between academic freedom and citizenship and crystallizing a critical...

... and baptized by Roquette Pinto as the “Crystal Palace of the Guanabara,” the MES in the transparency of its architecture could not but dialogue with the contrasting images of the surrounding polis. According to Lissovsky and Moraes, the MES’s most vulnerable point was its precarious durability.14...

... be addressed when economic development has brought full integration within the global capitalist system. But as a crystallized form of social lack, poverty and its discourses have in fact been extensively produced, repetitively and ubiquitously, penetrating into every corner of society. This poverty...

..., and that employees of the hotel next door had dubbed it the “crystal bridge.” (Much later, it was to be officially named Khmel’nitsky Bridge.) Yet, as I was to find out, this was not an entirely new bridge. It was half old and half new, a suggestive...

... the enclosure of vast enclaves situated far from the oceans. Boundaries gradually crystallized during the period of “informal empire” (from the abolition of the slave trade up to the repression of the first resistance movements), thanks to the combined action of traders and missionaries. The rise...