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..., the way that deaths are dismissed when labeled as those of “narcos” produces a particular discomfort among people working at the blurry edges of the narco-economy. By analyzing these experiences through the lens of “the uncanny” this article argues that the subject position of the narco is not just...

...Townsend Middleton Assassinations are an unsettling feature of South Asian politics. Haunting the body politic in spectacular and spectral forms, these deaths have an uncanny way of transforming political life. This article turns attention to the afterlives of these killings in order to explore...

..., the actual, the living, and the ephemeral, each of which might be seen as features of the global. But we also hope to take notice of signs of perdurance, of refusals to turn specter into spectacle, of the uncanniness of the ordinary and of the circulatory logic of the local. This issue takes up...

... that the poles “remain eschatological ends of the earth,” whether through nuclear militarism, ozone depletion, or sea level rise. Through Isaac we see the ends of the earth as an uncanny and destabilizing place for the human subject, an encounter with the planet’s alterity at the same time that it is rendered...

.... Fernandez , James W. 1986 . “The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture.” In James Fernandez, Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture . Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, p. 21 -70. Freud , Sigmund . 1963 [1919]. “The Uncanny.” In Sigmund Freud, Studies...

.... Freud, Sigmund. 2003 . The uncanny. In The uncanny , translated by David McClintock. New York:Penguin. Gibson, Donald. 1989 . Introduction. In The souls of black folk . New York: Penguin. Glissant, Edouard. 1997 . Poetics of relation , translated by Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University...

... for- eign, but both at the same time. Their uncanny identity triggers recurring crisis among all sides. It is as if their capacity for mediation endows them with a power to disturb and destabilize far out of proportion to their socially ascribed and offi...

... production, with its lengthy cycle of meditation, research, review, and publication, speak with uncanny, polyphonic precision to a conjuncture that the now dominates to a worrisome degree, reminding us that the overwhelm- ing present was imminent in a past that seems obsolete, and indeed that the pres...

... of the visible, or seen; surreal cities a regime of the subliminal and uncanny, or half-seen; hyperreal cities a regime of the televisual or quickly-seen. Both typologies and the relation between them are useful as examples of ideal types. Actual...

... of estrangement, deterritorialization, and a certain uncanny. The norm can become visible, that is, historically specific—shorn of its ethereal glow of universality, plenitude, authenticity, and originality. What are the political implications...

... public space is worth developing and for whom. To the latter: there is no other way I can describe the uncanny sensation I feel as I literally follow the signs that point me to “Home,” only to come to the place where we diverge. The forces of privatization thus exert new pressures on private feelings...

..., songs, drawings, and photographs, reaching its apogee not until some fifty years later. Resusci Anne contains the uncanny interpolative goals of any doll. And like little girls, not all men fall for an idea sprung on them about “proper behaviors” toward dolls and strangers. If the samaritan story...

... historical experience, unreconciled pasts, precolonial Ireland, nineteenth-century industrial capital, which, through the uncanny, remain critically contemporary with the cur- rent experience of foreign domination and social dislocation. The infiltration of the uncanny in the warning and visitation...

... as “the uncanny” but more literally as “unhomely,” Heim being the German word for “home.” Anxiety occurs, Lacan suggests, because something emerges in the place of the Heim , the space in which we should or might wish to feel at home. Rather, something else, something uncanny, emerges in that space (which...

... something more about the uncanny resonance that notions like “culture” retain. Then we would have moved into the realm of residues and investments, of displacements, traces and aftereffects, of culture as historically specific and discursively phantasmatic. Then there might have opened...

... that was both complex and hard to define, where the problems of colonial- ism were overlaid with those of globalism in an uncanny way. Such uncanniness could not be caught through straight documentation; it was left to the cinematic to define it. One classic example is Stanley Kwan’s Rouge, which draws...

... language—Sesotho—but it does bestow, like a pardon or gift, an invitation to run the experiment of articulating a decolonial ethics that dispenses with mind-body dualism, drawing out epistemologies that uncover the uncanny relation between an organ and a consciousness. According to Gikandi ( forthcoming...

... the construction of contemporary Iraqi subjects, Beckett creates a strange complic- ity among viewers, sitters, and the “oriental” individuals they embody. While this uncanny visual triangulation fosters an unexpected proximity, it also revels in its...

... and disabled. On the other hand, the rise of free market ideologies challenged the idea of development as the business of the state. But it is in the crucible of this uncanny convergence that development has been renewed. The renewal of development in the new millennium has been shaped by global...

... that begins to feel ghostly. The ghost story therefore becomes a device to evoke the uncanny nature of time and space in the contemporary city. It takes a ghost to catch a ghost. In terms of style and genre, As Tears Go By is very different from Rouge. It is as fast-paced and frantic as Rouge...