..., competition for resources and skilled labor between state and nongovernmental organizations, and a cultural conception of information as a resource to be privately possessed and exploited rather than open to public access. Stories of both failure and success in the libraries offer hints as to what...

... of his institutional power can be deployed through a series of executive orders. This makes it possible for the president to effect policy objectives through indirection, such as hints, threats, promises, or suggestions. All these would derive their effi...

... hollow. They would crumble swiftly at the slightest hint of any confrontation that asks for a reconsideration of our public norms and practices. This simply means that multiculturalism and block thinking cannot coexist in the long run...

.... This ad features a man and woman signing their names so as to con- vince us that all the other signatures are indeed real. The man and woman evoke the image of Adam and Eve, from which all life springs. By using a woman, (and there is a hint that both individuals could be members of an ethnic...

...- cault, “of speaking on the basis . . . of poverty, and yet despite it.”15 It is helpful, in context, to further ponder the hinted links in Foucault’s thinking about discourse between the themes of “rarefaction,” or an external interdiction on discourse...

... and Europe’s relative freedom are hinted at in his comment about coming back to the United States in 1894: in Europe, he wrote, “I dreamed and loved and wandered and sang; then after two long years I dropped suddenly back into ‘nigger’-hating America!” Du Bois, Autobiography, 183. 26. Du Bois, Souls...

... publicly claimed a commitment to peaceful elections and nonviolence, while at the same time hinting at their capacity for conflict, even war, should it become necessary. In this election, as was true in past elections and indeed throughout this region of West Africa, the language of peace and nonviolence...

..., including any hint of buried radioactive contamination, has been erased. Code-named “Shoal,” this test detonated on 26 October 1963 at a depth of 1,205 feet, and yielded energy that was equivalent to the explosion of 12,500 tons of TNT (about...

... commentary. The Public Culture artist exegete, fully aware of the intentionality and directness of critique in his play of images. She hints that the seriousness enveloping the choice of the emblem in 1948 and today’s flag play may be related to distinct political...

...” and ‘relative” (i.e., relative to rank and profession!) Enlightenment that has been made in the discussions of the Wednesday Society. I am grateful to James Schmidt for this as well as other hints. 8. The distinction between essential and accidental destinies, at first counterintuitive, is grounded...

.... This is the way the chaos, dynamism, and vital energy of the colonized world is turned into a series of still lives, available for study, entertainment, or scientific curiosity. In this sense, the ethnological museum is the key to the still life of empire, and it has more than a hint of necrophilia in its...

...- tory, with racial questions, with memorialization, with disciplinary traditions, might strike one as “aphasic.” In particular, the insulation of these questions and of disciplines from one another in French scholarship hints at systemic tensions...

... may hint at the name of the self-­referential Serbian artist whose own body and life are so often at the center (in this case quite liter- ally) of her art. But it refuses reduction to a single denotative frame. Should it be referred to as the “EU Panties” or “After Courbet”? Unbounded...

... by it. Nationalism is commonly brought forward as the claim that certain cultural similarities should count as the definition of political community. As hinted at the beginning of this article, nationalism as community poses a basic challenge to theories of democracy and civil society. Nationalism threatens...

... a long way toward articulating this broader point. In governmental bureaucracy, in particular where situations difficiles are hinted at (illegal immigra- tion...

... figure of Gandhi and the photographs and hand-­drawn portraits of Gandhi 379 Public Culture Figure 1  Gandhi’s room. Photograph by Dayanita Singh on the wall in Gandhi’s room also hint...

... on the Anansi story to write it. That person for me was Maarten van Hinte who is a playwright, a theater director. He is of Surinamese descent and brought up in the Netherlands. He had never written a libretto for an opera before. Libretto just means the text of a musical work including lyrics. He wrote...

... around Jerusalem; he is a teacher committed, among other things, to teaching the barbarians on both sides to behave like human beings. In some places it has worked; at the mere hint of violence by the young Shebab, he has canceled protests that were meticulously planned and kept away from...

... glance, the outbreak appeared unusual, a hint that the virus might have mutated. But the analysts were dubious. By the middle of the second wave of the influenza pandemic, the H1N1 virus had yet to show any signs of developing into a more dangerous strain. That morning, team members scoured the web...