...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 the archipelago as both a geological formation and a geopolitical territory. In tracing this formative era of Japan's resource extraction and settler colonialism, which precedes and informs the current rush to extract rare earth minerals necessary to maintain global digital infrastructures, this article aims...

... of the nation. Thus, the nation’s future becomes the future of its residents. This sort of logic is explored and exploded in Rosalind Morris’s piece on rush and panic in a gold-mining region of South Africa, where the youth coolly contemplate collective extermination by AIDS and, in the backdrop...

... a profitable industry in the 1970s when the United States ended the gold standard, and the price of gold, which had been held con- stant at $35 per ounce for many years, skyrocketed, hitting $850 per ounce in 1980. Canadian companies rushed to take...

...-Lines Instant City John Matshikiza There must have been something here, where Johannesburg stands, before the Tgold rush, but it was never recorded in history. So Johannesburg became and remained, by default, an instant city, periodically...

... does not help us see how this facticity interacts with people’s actions or that there is a making here, a collective making between urban space and people. For instance, rush hour in the city is a process where we bump into one another...

... it. But for sustained periods of time, it is something you learn and practice. And it’s not hard, you know. . . . I was at a meeting of the Republican Women of Southwest Louisiana, and I met this gospel singer, the wife of a Pentecostal minister, for a huge megachurch in town. And she said, “Oh, I love Rush Limbaugh...

...; still the volleys keep coming, and now they are shooting not over our heads — the usual protocol — but, surprisingly, directly at us, into the crowd, gre- nade after grenade. Each one comes rushing at us with an ugly, violent hiss; you...

... is the tendency to use museum jobs as political appointments. An institution which is per- ceived as a tranquil pool in the rushing stream of life is likely to attract man- agers who are either in a temporary holding pattern or about to land for good. This all boils down to the question of whom...

... super quadra housing also ignored noise as a potential problem; the large thoroughfares carrying the morning traffic to work provide a sonic rush to those a hundred yards away and six floors up over the empty visually appealing and efficient formal spaces. Brasilia is not neo-anything...

..., by way of scrappy Skype connections, focusing on violent upheaval visited on the DRC by the multinational rush for tantalum, a rare and highly valuable metal (85 percent of the world’s reserves lie in eastern Congo) essential for the produc...

... can offer that you know now, that you didn’t know when you were a callow youth, and that you wish you had known. LH: I think one of the big things I learned over time was not to rush to judgment. Not to rush to judgment about students, especially graduate students, but even undergraduate...

... and three taxis rush at you. Like most taxi drivers in Bradford, the driver was Asian and his car had furry, bright purple seats, covered with the kind of material people in the suburbs sometimes put on the lids of their toilets. It smelled of perfume, and Indian music was playing. The taxi...

... in establishing the legal frameworks for the post-2008 land rush (Cotula 2011 ; Alden Wily 2012 ). Scholars have documented their extensive use in forestry management in the Central African Republic (Hardin 2011 ), oil palm plantations in Indonesia (Li and Semedi 2021 ), rubber production in Laos (Kenney...

... out in the book? What are those particular capacities of writing that you see as being so vital right now in a digital age in which visual spectacle and also sound are together so at the center of the daily rush of information about environmental matters? RN: That’s a great question. Long-form...

... speed are you talking about? Realistically, the nation’s crumbling. So how much can you pay attention to somebody saying, “Oh, we’re in a rush”? But it’s a fake rush. We’re rushed to get reelected, but nothing’s actually happening. There’s no rush when it comes to what people need. It’s a difficult...

.... The entire installation folds and rolls into four suitcases and a few cardboard poster tubes. It’s art ready-­to-­go, prepared for a headlong rush across oceans should the “center” come calling. The artist is not standing above the fray: he...

... and were by then fairly intoxicated, rushed to the scene ten miles away, lights flashing and sirens wailing. More than two dozen agents from neighboring precincts hurriedly joined them. All were heavily equipped with riot gear, helmets, and batons. When they arrived on the premises, the project was calm...

... campaign city streets, attracting huge crowds of spectators who stand potentially mobile, poised as if waiting for some inci- dent to rush toward - in Central Javanese terms, gumrubyug: the unmis- takable sound of a crowd on the move, piropelled by an energy all its own. In the midst of the 1982...

... or primal fantasies, the ghost dances and the slave spectacles at its foun- dation. Superfluity Johannesburg began as a mining camp of tents and corrugated iron buildings dur- ing the Witwatersrand gold rush of the late nineteenth century. As South Africa was consolidated as a white supremacist state...