... and historical transformation. Duke University Press 2008 A Proliferation of Pigs: Specters of Monstrosity in Reformation Indonesia Nancy Florida On December 11 – 13, 1999, a remarkable millennial...

... twist Freud‘s famous statement-“a cigar is sometimes just a cigar”- into a Chinese statement: “a roast pig is sometimes just a roast pig.” The most important thing about it is whether it is well cooked. It doesn’t matter for whom it is cooked...

... against them if they were perceived as the perpetrators of the violence that sur- rounded partition. Specifically, the plot depicted a fundamentalist Muslim (named Murad Ali) who pays Nathu (an untouchable) five rupees to kill a pig, ostensibly on behalf of a British veterinarian. Instead of going...

... a specific allusion to recurring media imagery of police officers killing young black men. “There will be no pictures,” Scott-Heron raps, “of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay. There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay.” The line is repeated for emphasis...

...  453 Stathis Gourgouris Secular Imperatives?  461 Saba Mahmood TRANSLATION Health: Crude Concept and Philosophical Question  467 Georges Canguilhem THE NATION PROJECTED Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar  479 Shannon Mattern A Proliferation of Pigs...

..., Guinean and Turkish. Echoing the legend of Mundele ngulu or the White pig, virtuous depictions of labor in a meritocratic Turkey create an effect of éblouissement, a blinding optical effect resulting from a bright light, similar to the metaphorical headlights of a passing car in early twentieth-century...

... Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Books Received Abadie, Roberto. 2010. The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Ahmed, Sara. 2010. The Promise of Happiness. Durham, N.C.: Duke...

... of their own bodies. For them, the human body combined the physical attributes of pigs, cows, and chickens. That manipulation techniques came from hunting is evident in the proliferation of terms used to refer both to human beings and to game animals. Domestic butchering also familiarized peasants...

.... 132 Furnace. To stand before this dynamo is to stand before the very tabernacle of Colossus the Industrial Revolution. Even cold it has the power to inspire awe. in Ruins Yet what was produced here was the most mundane of substances: pig iron. The fabrication of pig iron...

.... Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Smith, Charlene, and Aaron Nicodemus. 1999 . More human guinea pigs for Virodene. Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg), March 19. www.aegis.com/news/dmg/1999/MG990305.html . Sunday Times. 2000 . AIDS: Mbeki versus Leon . July 9. www.suntimes.co.za/2000...

... added to the protocol despite major debates about its efficacy.16 In his remarkable history of breast cancer treatments, James S. Olson describes the women who had access to the latest, most aggressive treatments of their age as “a sisterhood of guinea pigs.”17 Such treatments involved...

... on the Capitol steps. There, magically, federal workers in their white-collar suits are trans- formed into pigs with skins engraved in the mode of dollar bills, sitting at troughs gorging themselves on dollar bills, wiping their mouths on the flag. This mutation of the cartoon places this episode...

...- sequently, New Mexico is part of that rural American economic space that relies on toxicity, vice, security, and industrial livestock or, as Mello puts it, the “four Ps—plutonium, poker, prisons, and pigs.” By arguing that the nuclear complex...

... to be demonstrated that the cut- ting and the healing of the tongue were simulated. With his tongue restored, Chuchad explained that it was an illusion, all a matter of technique (tekhnikaan). From the start, Chuchad explained, the cup contained a pig’s...

... of scientific labor management very quickly became what I call scientific learning management. Taylor didn’t just chart productivity in pig iron factories and write books that changed the face of American enterprise such as The Principles of Scientific Management , published in 1911. He was also the first...

... Robert Koch announced the discovery of a substance that halted the spread of tuberculosis in guinea pigs. Eight years earlier, Koch had identified the specific bacterium that causes tuberculosis. His colleagues expected that a cure would naturally follow in the wake of his etiological investigations...

.... In the bushes opposite the door dangles a lost umbrella. The Huang family, who still live next door, use the flat roof of the animal pen to dry corn kernels and the old pig sty to raise chickens. The side door that leads to the kitchen is open. The old fireplace is surrounded with pots, bottles, jugs, jars...

... pigs.” On her way out of the store, the woman stops in front of a man who is recording the scene and informs him that what she is experiencing is harassment. “I have a breathing problem!” she insists. “My doctor will not let me wear a mask, so anyone harassing me to wear a mask, you guys are violating...

..., ‘Would you rather hear the sound of weeping in your neighbor’s home or in your own?’” “That’s right!” Linkon crows. “We charge the rent while the pigs eat shit!” “Pay?” Tommy says, shaking his head. “I don’t have to pay. They pay me a rent just to stay open.” “Sorry, Tommy,” I say, as I shut...

... between man and nature, to Hans Jonas’s use of metabolism as the foundation of freedom, to Roy A. Rappaport’s notion of pig husbandry as a cultural management of a society’s energy needs (Arendt 1971; Jonas 2001 [1966] ; Rappaport 1984 ). As such, metabolism has been — and remains — an important...