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... culture contemporaine (Michel Henry: Thought on Life and Contemporary Culture) . Paris : Beauchesne . Conway Daniel W. 1997 . Nietzsche and the Political . London : Routledge . Drakeman Donald . 2015 . Why We Need the Humanities: Life Science, Law, and the Common Good...

... 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...

...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...

... could be more precarious, more uncertain, than such a city, where systems of sustenance and livelihood hang by a thread and the simplest journey might send one plummeting into the void? But here’s the twist: “Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other...

..., 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...

... of California Press . Fassin Didier . 2007 . Humanitarianism as a politics of life . Public Culture 19 , no. 1 : 499 – 520 . ———. 2009 . Another politics of life is possible . Theory, Culture and Society 26 , no. 1 : 44 – 60 . Fassin Didier Mariella Pandolfi , eds. 2010...

.... Wright , Melissa W. Forthcoming. Desire and the prosthetics of supervision. Cultural Anthropology . The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras Melissa W. Wright...

...) and is currently completing a book titled The Private Life of Public Culture . Anya E. Liftig is a freelance photographer for the New York Times . Her work has been widely published. She grew up in suburban New York and East Kentucky. Beller, Jonathan. 1994 . Cinema, capital of the twentieth...

... 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...

... : University of Chicago Press . Martin Randy . 2002 . The Financialization of Everyday Life . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Martin Randy . 2007 . An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

... 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...