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... of the law and, ultimately, an abolitionist. By reading “The Fire Next Time” (1963) and “No Name in the Street” (1972), I argue that policing in the United States is inherently organized by a(n) (il)logic of anti-Blackness that necessitates racist violence as a structural component of its practice...

... .” Westwander (blog), September 23 . westwander.com/2020/09/23/hell-on-not-so-bland-mountain-1987/ . McClintock Anne . 2020 . “ Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice .” e-flux Architecture , June 1 . www.e-flux.com/architecture/oceans/331865/monster-a-fugue-in-fire-and-ice/ . McDaniel...

... Fire in the Market awoke to the sound of excited voices in the wee hours of the morning on 21 II November 1992 in Biak City. Semuel Bidwam and his family were standing amid a pile of blankets and satchels on his sister’s back porch, a few feet from my...

... survived, but I am the only one who can be alive. All the women from my village died in the fire. I still can’t believe that I’m lucky enough to have escaped the gates of hell. . . . a survivor of a factory fire in China Fire...

... ranch. That night we weren’t acting like sportsmen looking for game to bring back home. We rode in a jeep, wore camouflage clothes, and covered our faces with char- coal. We just wanted to kill something. Around midnight we came across a tree full of raccoons and opened fire with our shotguns...

..., “is, apart from the right or wrong of it, not proper for students of any country.”1 A minor conflict between the students of the B. N. College, Patna, and the State Transport employees had led to police firing on the students on August 12 – 13, 1955. Then the Independence Day celebrations on August 15...

..., and the Modern Historical Experience (New York: Pantheon, 1985), 4. The two main sources on the Vietnam War used in this essay — Gabriel Kolko’s Anatomy of a War and Frances Fitzgerald’s Fire in the Lake: The Viet- namese...

... forest fires in California (Penn 2021 ). Scaling back energy provision is not really the problem in and of itself. Rather, it is the matter of equitable, universal access. If it is mostly the wealthy who have access to individualized solutions to shield themselves and use the grid as a “backup” (Bakke...

..., and two M60 side-firing machine guns guard the hovering trucks disgorging infantry. Gunship firepower ratchets up when, in 1968, the Huey Cobra, with its two 1,500-round miniguns, 5,000-round electrohydraulic minigun, forty-millimeter...

... weekly visits to the dump. I had a red fire truck with only three wheels that gave me more joy than any department store toy. And the junk inspired stories. The day we found the old ice cream sign in the trash...

... . . . . this monument's so tall! Is this the one called the National Monument [Monas asked Dika. "No, . . . . this is the one called the Fire of Pancasila Monument [Tugu Api Pancasila]. It is 45 meters tall, 17 meters in circumference...

... it mean to use a gun? It is rare gun owners who will ever actually fire their guns in self-defense, and yet many gun owners will fire hundreds of shots each month, spending thousands of dollars on ammunition. Where do they fire these shots? At shooting ranges, at competitions, in tactical classes...

... for for media seems to be a borrowing: meti. And the various media themselves take their linguistic meanings from their material source of energy rather than their implications for social relations. Fire and electricity are the basis of much of the new media. Electricity (dian)is identified as the key...

..., brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style...

... growth. Both are piecing a world out of fragments on a grand scale. 1. Rebecca Solnit, “The Ruins of Memory,” in After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, by Mark Klett (Berkeley: University of California Press...

...figure 2 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Oakland, Alameda County, California, with black line showing Esther's Orbit Room properties, 1889. Image: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. For permissions information, please see hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4364om.g4364om_g007271889 . ...