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...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay probes discourses of millennial governance in current late liberal governance and contemporary critical theory. It examines a set of dilemmas for progressive critics when they mobilize discourses of sacrifice and sacrificial love against the millennial imaginary...

....” Research report. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Communication Arts. Video Crackdown, or The Sacrificial Pirate: Censorship and Cultural Consequences in Thailand...

... of Modernity have generally invoked the vio- lent past as a catalog of sacrifices, including the deeds of the nation’s visionary martyrs and its innocent sacrificial victims alike. Sierra rejected revolution as a useful or positive mechanism when he wrote as a pundit during the precarious early years...

... is to stretch the future whose making defines politics, so that it is no longer determined by the short-term projections of electoral cycles and even self-interest. This results in a sacrificial mode of “parental” action whose trusteeship repudiates self-interest as a category, because its sacrifice...

... A. Povinelli’s examination of liberal sacrificial love brings the limits of con­ temporary historicities to the fore. Webb Keane’s close discussion of time, media, and circulation discovers structural fissures in the idea of an international public sphere, while Wilder points to the limits of the national...

... rejection of this reality as an absolute value The Paradox of also entailed protecting it. Only by disdaining life could it be saved, while even Nonviolence politics in its most sacrificial forms, including the Cold War doctrine of “mutually assured destruction,” continued to be devoted to its...

..., at the cost of his own sacrificial cleans- ing, what was proper.12 Morals for Gandhi were a set of fundamentally contingent and conscientious judgments about one’s own capacities and the other’s limits, not an imperative of principles. If indifference to the unequal’s suffering brought...

..., or self- sacrificial, violence was deployed—and death unleashed—in the name of a Marx- ist telos. Murder itself was commuted and concealed through ascription to a final moral truth, while the proof of virtue and morality lay in pain and suffering.33 The possibility of a properly philosophical...

... it; Elizabeth A. Povinelli discusses the limits of sacrificial love in late liberalism; Webb Keane scrutinizes the moral narratives produced by the Indonesian press; William A. Callahan maps where China is and where it must be; Beatriz Jaguaribe and Maurício Lissovsky distill traces of the past...

...- structions of law, but also Mbembe’s severe dichotomy of sacrificial victims and war-goaded subjectivities. In a postcolonial state, the testimony of traumatized witnesses inflects legal claims both past and present. In South Africa...

... is accessible to a suppliant people. Is the magic efficacious? On the third day of the war, USA Toduy ran a short piece headlined, “All anyone can do is ‘pray, give blood one a ritual spell, the other a sacrificial offering of vital bodily substance .as citizen or soldier. There was another spell...

... sacrificial.” Our bodies are broken and repaired, but “there is nothing to say.” There certainly has not been a shortage of things to say about AIDS. On the contrary, AIDS has sparked a veritable plague of images: what Paula A. Treichler (1988...

... efforts to rehabilitate a cultural, sacrificial, and almost theologico-­political con- ception of the history of France. Inspired by schoolbooks of the turn of the century, this view of history is con- sumed with past glories. It situates...

... the category of the leftist as categorically nonhuman. Christianity, through the instantiation of Christ as human, dislodged the sacrificiality of the selfsame37 from the realm of totemism and reterritorial­ ized it within the realm of political...

..., the Righteous Army itself, armed in full battle gear, accompanied by this inscription: Ah, our proud Army! Inherit the anti-Japanese Righteous Soldier’s sacrificial spirit, Devote yourselves to restoring our national pride, Hear the battle cry...

... of the South Indian temple mimicked other institutional aspects of South Indian society. Temple ritual appeared to be a mixture of Vedic sacrificial procedures and the logic of domestic worship. The division of labor in the agrarian society...

... familiar trope: “Every stone here has a story of martyrdom to tell. Every inch of thy soil, Oh mother! has been a sacrificial ground.”48 Not only is there a mythic community in a magical land, but all parts of this intimate land have been made sacred by sacrifice. Martyrdom is very powerful...

...- chotomy of defiance and debauchery, which is attached to heavy drinking. In a way, the film appropriates certain Western values - the Nietzschean celebration of the Dionysian spirit - as the 1980s in China saw the revival of a Nietzschean wave. The song of the sacrificial offering to the wine...

... of sacrificial indemnification, it strives to restore the unscathed (heilig) that it itself threatens” (Derrida 2002 : 66). The supplement of the frontier serves to indemnify the concussed foundational front while disavowing its remediation of the latter by claiming legitimating continuity. The dismediating...

... of the sacrificial victim, mystical corporatism, fealty to the autonomous engine of destruction, with its power to transform humans into a caste of fabricated beings called “men at war.”19 Over and over, Kadare depicts war...