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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 347–362.
Published: 01 December 2024
...). 13. Pfohl, “New Global Technologies of Power,” 556 . 14. The production of informatic power through the hidden energetics of human labor implicates what Nick Dyer-Witheford calls a “global proletariat caught in a cybernetic vortex. . . . [The] proletariat denotes the incessant phasing...
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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...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 395–428.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the fraught relationship between labor and aesthetics, economy and form, art and the market. Although Beech provides a persuasive account of art’s “economic exceptionalism,” his focus on the qualitative irreducibility of artistic labor risks losing sight of what is socially unique about aesthetic production...
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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...
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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...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 159–193.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of ordinary individuals and more an ethos for academic philosophers, guiding its readers toward a specific subject position, achieved through an ongoing labor of abstraction. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2024 nonphilosophy ordinariness finitude...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
... fight between labor and capital. Rather than envisioning this totality of struggle as a merely thematic concern, Sekula’s compositions eschew commodification on the level of form by delving into the constitutive tensions of realism and reintroducing a living context of militancy and resistance...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 245–266.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jaleh Mansoor Abstract This essay argues that the artwork’s opacity and purposively purposeless quality are a tacit refusal of the compulsory division between intellectual and manual labor, which afford the artwork a unique capacity to access an otherwise occluded totality. By analyzing conceptual...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 207–220.
Published: 01 December 2016
... freedom, rational progress,
and social equity—and the particular narratives of political eman-
cipation through citizenship and the state, and the promise of eco-
nomic freedom in the development of labor and exchange markets—
apart from the global conditions on which...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 3–27.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of the labor force. They
are precapital. They are [supposedly] not only different but radi-
cally incompatible with capital. The fact [however] is America
didn’t emerge in a linear historical sequence. (“CP,” 551)
Instead, he argues, the United States and Europe alike arose...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 145–177.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . On immigrants’ labor market participation, see Brodmann and Polavieja, “Immigrants in Denmark” ; and Bisin et al., “Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes.” On their access to health care and education, see Cuadra, “Right of Access to Health Care” ; Woodward, Howard, and Wolffers, “Health and Access...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 199–243.
Published: 01 June 2023
... among the natural conditions of production for a third individual or community,” is “always secondary, derived, never original.” 10 For Marxist feminists, the declining efficacy of slavery in the world of wage labor socializes burdens that were previously handled by slaves, such that domination now...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of a seemingly material object. How does this go?
By his industry, Marx continues, man transforms nature into
things useful to him— thus “the form of wood . . . is altered by
making a table out of it” (m, 320). An idea plus labor yields some-
thing useful—from wood, a table. But, says Marx, usefulness...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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