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... of Practice) . Paris : Minuit . Brohm Jean-Marie . ed. 2006 . Michel Henry: Pensée de la vie et culture contemporaine (Michel Henry: Thought on Life and Contemporary Culture) . Paris : Beauchesne . Conway Daniel W. 1997 . Nietzsche and the Political . London : Routledge...

... on by the “sad and sentimental story” it tells. My analysis is inspired by Joseph Slaughter’s Human Rights Inc . Slaughter argues that the formation of a transnational culture of human rights involves “self-responsibilization.” Slaughter analyses postcolonial novels as a form of bildungsroman, a life...

... a concept with aspirations of becoming a tool for thinking about the bad life: the concept of social disappeared . The author argues that it is feasible to turn the categories of disappeared and disappearance into tools for understanding a universe filled with places that are outside the norm, places...

...Lisa Richaud; Ash Amin While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on migrant mental health. Exploring the affective and subjective dimensions of life lived...

...Shamus Khan The classic “Undead text” of sociology is Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life . This article argues that what helps make Presentation Undead is that its key point is obvious. Yet this is only the case after someone shows that point to you. Undead texts are ones...

... will set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable? In the double-edged conditions of our times, what will it take to turn instruments of calculation into instruments of liberation? Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 future life reason computation...

... of wealth coupled with misery could be marshalled to describe Honduras vis-à-vis the United States: where Central America's economic crises goad prospective workers northward in search of the means to build a life, only to confront an expanded range of dangers. Labor's precarity finds a structural...

... reports, and written in conversation with feminist anthropological scholarship on capitalism and social reproduction, it argues that these systems have created a matrix of conversion devices that produce Muslim social life under the sign of terrorism while expropriating it as data and labor. At the same...

... in which life takes form; and they have the “abilities” to take on many forms. The essay thus departs from the demographic and territorial notions of “what is urban,” to explore the urban as a constitutive medium composed of numerous passages. It asks, What is at play in them? What life forms in passing...

... in society had produced between the state’s technoscientific focus on making the radiation visible and people’s diverse everyday experience of radiation in various aspects of life. Ethnographically retelling the struggles of a medical doctor who came to understand the manifold consequences of the accident...

...David Nugent; Adeem Suhail Abstract Two decades into the twenty-first century, a panoply of formerly separate movements, interests, organizations, and individuals have converged around shared anxieties about the future of life on earth. This article focuses on the implicit logic on which this “cult...

..., autobiographical writings, translated by Edmund Jephcott. New York: Schocken Books. Berlant, Lauren. 1997. The queen of America goes to Washington City: Essays on sex and citizenship. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Biehl, João. 2001. Vita: Life in a zone of social abandonment. Social Text, no. 68: 131...

...Didier Fassin Duke University Press 2007 Translated by Rachel Gomme POLITICS OF LIFE Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life Didier Fassin Finally, this idea of man’s...

... The Public Life of History Bain Attwood, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Claudio Lomnitz In September 2005, Bain Attwood and Dipesh Chakrabarty convened a group of historians at the Australian National University to discuss the productive effects...

...Dipesh Chakrabarty Duke University Press 2008 The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India Dipesh Chakrabarty I should explain at the outset that by the expression “public life of history,” I do...

...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Editor’s Letter: Whose Fears? Which Life? What Security? Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar These are difficult times, often characterized...

...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 spirit of capitalism Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death...

...Elsa Barkley Brown Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery...