... University Press, 1988 . Goldbery , David T. “Polluting the Body Politic: Racist Discourse and Urban Location.” In Racism, the City and the State , ed. Malcom Cross and Michael Keith. London: Routledge, 1993 . Jay , Martin . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century...

.... imagining the historical project Untimely Vision: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia Gary Wilder I have no ambitions about finding a solution. I do not know where...

...Setrag Manoukian Through a discussion of crowds and audio-vision in post-election Iran, the essay places the relationship between experience and politics at the center of current events in the country and analyzes the powerful but dispersed combination of crowds, images, sounds, voices, bodies...

... and Antarctica, the essay examines satellite vision produced by the Cold War systems of surveillance, particularly as inscribed by New Zealand author James George. The conclusion of the essay turns to ways these technologies are constitutive of visions of the global in the Anthropocene. 2014 Cosgrove...

... vision exercised through media encompassed Dalit ontology and body politic as queering. Through “sibling solidarity,” it expanded the conceptual identification of similar conditions as opposed to an emphasis on sameness or likeness to build solidarity. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

... on tuberculosis in India, he identifies the consequences of a widely shared investment in cure’s finality—what he calls, after Mircea Eliade, a vision of “radical cure.” Such an investment threatens to foreclose our recognition of the limits of cure, as well as curtail our willingness to conceive of other...

...Alana Lentin The call for a parsing of the French context that accompanied the aftermath of the attacks on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo mobilized what Barnor Hesse calls a “white analytics.” Such a partial vision of France as “exceptional” in matters of race denies the significance...

...Joanne Randa Nucho Abstract This essay describes an emerging “post‐grid imaginary” that is informing visions of future collapse, growing scarcity, and deepening infrastructural fragmentation. By examining electrical grid failures in Lebanon and California, we can move beyond developmentalist...

... through Urdu poetry is one that is concerned not with the state, but with the constitution of the self through a network of thick relations to locality. The vision articulated by this alternate political theology — which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the lived experience...

...Noah Arjomand In this essay, the libraries of Kabul serve as a microcosm of the international “capacity-building” project in Afghanistan. Visions of modern and digital library systems have run into the realities of donors interested in quick “success stories” more than programs that work long-term...

... as the “death of the social.” This essay explores the multiple and mutually exclusive uses of niceness, from its compensatory function that substitutes economic equality with the gestures of equality—a handshake, a smile—to its centrality for creating what Pierre Bourdieu called a social solidarity vision...

... two strands of disability studies: liberal approaches that emphasize the celebration of disability and biopolitical critiques that foreground the violent production of debilitation, to consider how Kashmiri visual production suggests a vision of crip futures for those now living with disabilities...

...Jacob G. Foster Abstract This article argues that contemporary research practices in artificial intelligence will produce AI technologies incompatible with human flourishing, social complexity, or vibrant politics. Adopting James Scott's anarchist squint, it instead proposes a vision of AI...

... on multiple dispersed, decentralized sources and has emerged during a period of great turbulence and acrimony in the public sphere, when the very notion of truth is up for grabs. Despite its ambiguity, sacropolitics offers a range of related, collectively generated intimations or visions of what the future...

...Anneeth Kaur Hundle Through the theoretical interrogation of both “diversity” and “decolonization” as key concepts in contemporary university life, this essay (1) offers a vision for a transnational “decolonizing diversity” approach that serves as public and political pedagogy within and beyond...

... future, our projection begins to influence the present, to redound upon it, so to speak; in a very precise way, it has a decisive effect on our present. J. L. Aranguren, “Openness to the World” In this essay, Habermas’s vision is one of abstraction. He is concerned...

... , Nicholas . 1992 . “The Media and the Public Sphere.” In Habermas and the Public Sphere , edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge: MIT Press, 359 -376. Jay , Martin . 1993 . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth–Century French Thought . Berkeley: University of California Press...

... and Vision in Cinema. American Journal of Semiotics . Purmohammad , Mas'ud . 1987 Ebteda Sangh-ye Kuchak. Mahnameh-ye Sinema'i-ye Film , no. 64. Khordad. Rahman , Fazlur . 1968 Islam . New York: Anchor. Zizek , Slavoj . 1990 Looking Awry. October 51 , 30 -55. The Averted...

... Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Books Received Adinolfi, Francesco. 2008. Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Andriopoulos, Stefan. 2008. Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate...