..., and things were gone they weren’t sure ever were there. Stuart Dybeck, fie Coast of Chicago, 1981 Split-Level Bedlam Chicago at the End of the Twentieth Century Nick De Genova I felt that this world, despite its massiveness, was somehow...

...Carol Gluck Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The “End” of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium Carol Gluck e seem, in the 1990s, to be obsessed...

...Rinaldo Walcott In this essay, the author suggests that diversity as an idea has reached its logical end. The essay proposes that something more radical and sustaining than diversity is now required if whiteness is to be understood as the foundation and barrier that preempts nonwhite others from...

...” ( Social Text , 1998) and In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand (2000). Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency...

... Ghosts, and Tiananmen (1994). Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan Robert P. Weller Taiwan lies...

...Nicole Starosielski Abstract This article poses the question: what are the ends of media studies? It discusses a turn to “nature” and the elements that has pushed media studies beyond its traditional objects and subjects. While the conceptualization of environments and bodies as communicative...

... (2001 : 220) observes that the poles “remain eschatological ends of the earth,” whether through nuclear militarism, ozone depletion, or sea level rise. Through Isaac we see the ends of the earth as an uncanny and destabilizing place for the human subject, an encounter with the planet’s alterity...

... is it concretely actualized by an urban majority making often unanticipated, unformatted uses of the urban to engender livelihoods in a dynamic and open-ended process? This is the key question undertaken in this collectively written piece. This means thinking about work, paid and unpaid, in ways that highlight...

...Bharat Jayram Venkat In an earlier essay that appeared in Public Culture , Bharat Jayram Venkat asked what it might mean to think of cure as an ending lacking finality. Here, in response to Paul H. Mason et al., he briefly expands on his thoughts from that essay. Drawing on his research...

... imaging not only has been used by human rights advocates to pursue their ends but has also transformed those ends, separating intention from effect, policy from practice, and advocacy’s present from its past. In this process, surveillance states and human rights NGOs have come to collaborate...

... end to illness, might instead be figured as an ending lacking finality. Like promises, cures for tuberculosis can be broken. Thinking at the limits of cure makes possible a reflection on the persistence of “curable diseases” into the present, as well as on the ways in which therapeutic knowledge comes...

... co-opted after the end of apartheid as a means of retaining privilege, it is necessary to revisit varied understandings and debates inside the liberation movement on race and nonracialism to counteract this co-option and as a commitment to nonracialism not as state of being but as politics...

... and reasoning in the language of the educator, the statesman, the colonizer, the slaver, the exterminator. In the end, though, an epistemological rupture would entail more than differential languages; it requires that significance no longer be located in historical inscription. Copyright 2011 by Duke...

... of the former and rejecting the latter for its antirealist and debate-ending tendencies. In this way, the discourses of objectivity and subjectivity would allow productive agonism between the humanities and sciences. The article suggests both theoretical and practical implications for a diverse set of actors...

...Craig Calhoun Seeking to end international isolation and pursue limited reform, Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and his son Saif drew British and American social scientists into a diplomatic and public relations project. Contracts with the Monitor Group (and Harvard faculty members) and the London School...

... with recovery, market logics used in recovery to build stock portfolios of recovery companies, the circulation of affect as a resource for profit, and the growth of nongovernmental and charity organizations that ended up doing the work that government contractors failed to do. Responding to growing cries...

... it would later be found wanting (e.g., anti-essentialism). The article then turns to the original reception of the first English-language translation (published in 1953) to understand why the text initially had such a strong impact, and ends by speculating about why it continues to inspire today’s...