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...Kaushik Sunder Rajan; Sabina Leonelli This essay examines the notion of “translational research,” which has become a dominant form of the institutionalization and practice of contemporary biomedicine, as an entry point into theorizing questions of knowledge, value, and their articulations. We...

... to reflection). In debates around phenomena such as “bleaching” or “lightening” the skin, for instance, I do think there are black women and men who aren’t lying to themselves when they say they are not trying to be white. We often forget the aesthetic value placed on appearing “mixed” in many black communities...

...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 spirit of capitalism Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death...

... Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt Julia Elyachar With the antiglobalization protests in Washington, D.C., in April 2000, the W term globalization took a new turn on its slippery discursive slope. First...

... including “#NoMoreDebt Caribbean Syllabus” ( caribbeansyllabus.wordpress.com ) and “Global Debt Syllabus” ( debtsyllabus.com ). The award-winning Valor y Cambio also emerged out of the working group. Valor y Cambio , a play on the Marxist concept of valor de cambio, or exchange value, is an interactive...

... that offend “core socialist values,” though notable state campaigns for purging “vulgar” online content date back to 2009. 4. Following Shapiro 2018 : 3, we can think of the sublime as a political aesthetic which by way of disrupting our usual faculty of apprehension (e.g., via an uneasy mixture...

... of imagining their existence: not changing their conditions, but living differently with them. These projects make the claim that there is value to these lives even if they can never be improved. The challenge of how to value lives that can be neither saved nor improved is one of the central dilemmas...

...Christine Harold This article analyzes the Target Corporation as an example of the foregrounding of design in contemporary consumer culture. To understand the destiny of the manufactured object in an age of aesthetic capitalism, this article argues that the previous relationships among use value...

...Faisal Devji Unlike the pacifists and humanitarians with whom he is routinely associated, Gandhi was critical of human rights as a legal and political project. Indeed, he attributed modern violence precisely to the fact that life had become an absolute value, something that could therefore...

...Natasha Dow Schüll Online poker gamblers employ software to track and algorithmically analyze play-by-play game information in real time, parsing opponents’ behavioral patterns and tendencies into color-coded numerical values that hover over their respective positions at the virtual table...

...Andrew Lakoff This essay tracks the two-decade-long struggle to protect the delta smelt and other native fish populations in California. Through the case of the smelt, it asks how the goal of species preservation is integrated into contemporary governmental practice. What values are at play...

... of financial and other value from life itself. Visiting the US-Mexico and Euro-African borders in turn, it considers biotechnologies for surveillance and detection; detention and “warehousing”; and risk strategies for deterring migration, in each case delving into the political economy of human vitality...

... of “merit.” The effects of this asymmetry are evident in the popular politics around reservations in which the claim to merit on the part of upper castes is taken largely at face value. Across this period, we also see the consistent stance of the southeastern state of Tamilnadu as a political outlier in its...

... affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist animated films in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. 3 The Dada and Surrealist movements produced particularly striking examples...

... formidable concerns. The essay examines two visualization projects, Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns and WWF’s The Timber Trade , focusing on their use of the aerial perspective and the line. These features speak at once to an uneasy globalism and to values of simplicity, instantaneity, and transparency...

... infrastructure that lurks behind every stroke of a keyboard and swipe of a touch screen. Developing a framework for “cyberenvironmentalism,” she shows that the cloud’s footprint extends beyond corporate-owned data centers and high-speed networks to include small-scale, personal habits driven by values...

... a theological one, centered on the axiomatic value of free choice and imbued with a faith in the market’s judgment of our free choices. The system-wide effects of the global financial crisis, which did not correlate with any good or bad choices, shattered the legitimacy of the neoliberal order, but so far both...

... abandoning the advantages and benefits of modern, high-tech capitalism. Recent narratives about the value of home production affirm the effort to assert greater control over work lives and to recuperate satisfying, sustainable, and less alienated forms of production. At the same time, these narratives expose...

... and effect and to know how to act effectively, irony provides a useful interpretative tool. Irony allows actors to position themselves between competing values, and attend to contradictions, enabling them to imagine common cause and possible futures within a radically unsteady world. Second, irony generates...

... situations make up a kind of algorithmic process that continuously produces new functions and new values for individual and collective capacities, backgrounds, and ways of doing things. This capacity, albeit facing new vulnerabilities and recalibration, will become increasingly important in shaping urban...