...Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding...

....” What is it to defy this order in the most intimate sphere of the self, the body? Michelle Velasquez-Potts’s paper — a necessary and alarming read for its spare descriptions of the force-feeding of Guantánamo prison hunger strikers — tackles this question through the torturous vicissitudes of the body...

..., but it becomes a much larger problem with the idea of an archive like this one that would exist explicitly for the present moment, for the movement’s participants themselves, and for a radically nonhierarchical movement as a means of collectively articulating its identity. The forces feeding...

... to Celestin Monga's Nihilism and Negritude (2016). While Monga's argument that the postcolonial African is characterized by a sense that “existence is a form of aimless agitation, to which those who choose not to commit suicide are forced to submit” (174) seems to me overdone, it does feel appropriate...

...) advises brands that “the ‘feed speed’ on Instagram is still mostly laid back. If you start posting a lot, you might over-saturate your followers’ feeds, and you don’t want to force yourself into the noise too often.” On the main Instagram app screen, users can browse through a stream of photographs...

... to question the safety and sustainability of genetic modification, but also to challenge the corporate capture of African food and agrarian systems. In a landscape dominated by genetically modified soy and corn, Iowa served as a strategic location for this scientific feeding trial. Beyond seeking...

... al. 2014 ; cf. Colectivo Situaciones 2007 ) and that addresses pressing concerns. To avoid replicating most outsiders’ (including researchers’) extractive presence in slums and camps, which in turn feeds into spectacularizing representations, I carried out fieldwork by participating in collective...

... in fact become a commonly mimed model and indeed a smokescreen obscuring vast networks of state agents, financial institutions, private businesses, and countless civilians feeding off the extortion economy. The expansion and diffusion of extortion beyond “traditional” criminal networks links...

... covering the area from China to Gibraltar, trade clearly not dominated by one hegemonic force. But with colonialism another model of ethnic relations emerged, a model that can equally be applied to Israel since, as Anthony Nutting has...

... the twists and turns of young love and the strain of forced separation during military service. Reprinted courtesy of The China News [Taipei] November 12, 1989, p. 11. Social concerns are only touched on indirectly in these movies, by such events 355...

..., and the words of hyperlinked anchor texts were also integrated into the algorithm. Nothing feeds success like success, and so the Matthew effect (memetic spreading) kicked in: as more and more people used Google, even more and more people started to use it. Over time Google emerged...

... in hand with the orgy and buffoonery. The body of the despot, his frowns and smiles, his decrees and edicts, the redundancy of his public notices and communiquis repeated over and again: these are the pri- mary signifiers. It is these that have force, that get interpreted and re-inter- preted...

... of the waters rich in fish, particularly tuna. Fish migrate through the Slot, the channel between the double chain of islands, feeding on the baitfish that abound in the passages, lagoons, and reefs. In its quest for development the Solomons has pinned much of its aspirations on what lies beneath...

... is not simply the mistake of well- meaning documentarians or a tactic of political practitioners of what Lauren Berlant has called “empathetic misrecognition.”9 People needful of publicly pro- vided aid are forced by the politics of public...

... by the upper-class glitter of its own campaign, and deluded into believing that the long era of its rule had only just begun — was forced out of power by the rural and urban poor in the general elec- tion of 2004. Thirty years earlier...

... he regards as a “universalistic intellectual entity,” have created an “intellectual poverty” in communication research. Disciplines are structured not only by shared forgetting, but also by institutional forces that push on and orient fields from the outside. Taking the view from the outside...

... education, being forced to live in nursing homes and back rooms, being seen as childlike and asexual—that needs changing. Locating the problems of social injustice in the world, rather than...

... admits that much implicitly) it is exactly because attraction and disgust are driven here by the same force: ego’s recognition that a scene otherwise familiar has been pushed to the extremes of abnormality. Previous knowledge is also necessary to ego’s judgment that the scene potentially...

... The negative publicity would eventually feed into the hit documentary Blackfish (dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite; 2013), a media spectacle of its own that has been credited with opening the eyes of many of its worldwide viewers to the cruelty of marine-mammal captivity—as well as the more specific animal-welfare...

... in which these religious mobilizations are reactive, at times feeding on a previous process of secularization perceived as a threat. But in general, this com- mon view suffers from a defective understanding of both modernity and secular- ization. There is not one thing, called “religion,” which...