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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Christopher McGowan Abstract This article argues that Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) represents an unexpected but compelling mutation of the genre of postindustrial labor film. Hunger depicts the protests of Irish republican prisoners inside the Maze Prison that culminated in the 1981 Irish hunger...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 243–261.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan A review of Cheah Pheng , What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 ). Cited in the text as ww . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 Divisions of Labor
Between Cheah’s Worlds
ragini...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
...’ subjection to large-scale organizations and divisions of labor is at the heart of artificial intelligence. As such, questions of procedures are key to understanding the power assumed by institutions wielding artificial intelligence. Most media-historical accounts of the development of contemporary artificial...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 207–220.
Published: 01 December 2016
... laborers within the Americas during the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By way of these emergent
“intimacies of four continents,” Lowe moves against and through
the Eurocentric accounts of modern liberalism’s origins—including
those that pinpoint its origins...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 3–27.
Published: 01 December 2010
.../summer 2010 vol.18, no.2
[f]rom the Eurocentric point of view, reciprocity, slavery, and in-
dependent commodity production are all perceived as a histori-
cal sequence prior to commodifi cation of the labor force. They
are precapital. They are [supposedly] not only...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 145–177.
Published: 01 June 2020
... until demand for labor picked up again. In 1973 the Ministry of Social Affairs also established a working group that took up the same questions regarding foreign workers’ conditions addressed by the 1969 committee, with the purpose of assessing whether further measures were needed. In 1975 the working...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... economists such as Oskar Lange were questioning the importance of units of calculation such as money and labor time in the formation of prices. Hayek agreed with his mentor Mises but framed the antisocialist argument differently: the economic order was, he claimed, an issue of spontaneous knowledge rather...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 215–227.
Published: 01 December 2015
...
tumultuous time in West Germany, History and Obstinacy is part
of the tradition of critical theory’s interest in capitalism that began
with Karl Marx’s analysis of alienated labor in Capital and contin-
ued on to Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s diagnosis...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 29–54.
Published: 01 December 2010
...
of the family life cycle, with the growth and labor of children and
with the passage of a series of ritual and productive cargos (a set
of obligations known as the thaki or “road” to adulthood). The
Andean order of inheritance favors the younger son or daughter,
granting the youngest sibling arable...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of human civilization, with
the central concept of Marx’s political economy—surplus value.
According to Marx, it is the labor required for the production of
commodities that regulates their exchange in a capitalist market.
Inasmuch as workers sell their own capacity for labor...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of mourning
to be taken up, and therefore also a labor under which one could
not only collapse, but fail.2 “Today these people would be treated
in hospitals. But Dante considered them sinners,” comments Cur-
tius on the sullen damned: “Fitti nel limo dicon: ‘Tristi fummo /
ne...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 235–247.
Published: 01 June 2013
... required to pay, monitored the work of rural administrators,
and regulated forced labor (JH, 89). Other reforms ameliorated
prison conditions and sentencing, criminalized animal cruelty, and
changed agricultural policy and criminal law to enjoin peasants
into fi ghting...
Journal Article
“Les Hypothèses Trop Hasardées”: Synecdoche and Speculative Method at the End of the Rougon-Macquart
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
... away in the face of an origin of the world that already contains the seeds of humanity’s supersession of natural law. We know well, of course, the history of the rationalization of factory machinery and its effects on labor during the second industrial revolution. They are described, for example...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 63–88.
Published: 01 June 2015
...
that per the widely accepted protocols of university labor practices
he was indeed fi red— from a tenured position at University of Illi-
nois, Urbana- Champaign (uiuc) in August 2014, just weeks before he
was about to start teaching, ostensibly for tweets deemed “uncivil.”
These tweets were written...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2011
... write, CUNY is still fi lling new administra-
tive positions). The showdown with labor is not over: the PSC’s
contract expired in October 2010, and both the current governor
and the mayor want to freeze wages and force pension and health-
care givebacks.
At the Borough of Manhattan Community...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 475–510.
Published: 01 December 2018
... newsletters, and membership solicitations, the PPWA archival collection comprises mostly scrapbooks and correspondence. The differentiation in record keeping suggests a gendered labor divide within Pan-Pacific internationalism. Satterthwaite often confided in letters that she was perpetually “swamped...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 15–56.
Published: 01 December 2004
... inherited from these two doctrines a particular con-
struction of subsistence or traditional society, itself a product of
indirect rule and colonial anthropology. This conception of tradi-
tional Africa, although entrenched to this day, was profoundly chal-
lenged by a series of labor uprisings...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 143–182.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of cheap sexualized labor to attract foreign
— largely U.S. — capital investment.' In 1980, the time of the no-
vella's writing as well as of its setting, the Philippine economy was
more tied to international financial institutions than ever, having
become dependent...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 137–177.
Published: 01 December 2016
...,” in which nothing is at stake except “negatives:
losses, devastation, threats,” from “the old industrial confl ict of labor
against capital” that was (once upon a time) conceivable as a struggle
for “positives: profi ts, prosperity, consumer goods.”1 Written in the af-
termath...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 135–160.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and understanding
(perceiving and naturalizing) social divisions of labor, discrepan-
cies of privilege, resources, and life chances and qualities— have
been crucial for fulfi lling. But how? What is the role, for example,
of racial logics in the work of empire? If struggles of decoloniza...
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