...Tom Roach Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Becoming Fungible Queer Intimacies in Social Media tom roach Everything you may have heard about online dating is true: It is steeped in a consumerist logic. It substitutes algorithms for phero- mones. It instrumentalizes intimacy and...

...Gary Kafer Abstract As programs of internet surveillance have increasingly pervaded our contemporary social and political lives, resistance has become necessary for those seeking to evade online data tracking. This article interrogates such resistance through an examination of Trevor Paglen and...

...Jacques Rancière Abstract This essay uses constructions of avowed fiction from modern Western literature and criticism (Erich Auerbach, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner) to question the sense of reality constructed by dominant social discourses that claim to be the mere expression of reality...

...Courtney Sato Abstract During the interwar period, internationalists declared Hawai‘i the “new Geneva” of the Pacific: a locus for regional diplomacy, social reform, and cross-cultural exchange. This article examines the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) as part of the emerging Honolulu-based...

... figure of the urban stranger and passerby to argue for an aesthetics and ethics of social anonymity that does not rely on or demand identification and that thereby remains open to the risk, surprise, and pleasure of shared existence. In doing so, I theorize intimacy as that which remains unnameable in...

... Reich using the concept of stasis to unpack the social, historical, political, and visual tensions that structure these images’ depiction of their black German subjects. Viewing these images as complex depictions of stasis (defined not as the cessation of movement but as motion held in suspension and a...

...Dora Zhang Abstract This essay argues that we do not yet fully recognize and attend to the importance of atmospheres as social and political phenomena of everyday life, and draws on a range of approaches to examine these ordinary and ubiquitous sites of affective charge. First charting how creating...

... Marx secular reason secular critique critique of religion socialism All the prominent concepts of the critique of capitalism are socialized anthropological concepts. They are not secularized theological concepts, as Carl Schmitt would famously have it, but effects of how the concept of...

... regulating hu- man differences cut against the measure of Man, race, gender, and sexuality have long served to organize the social divisions of eco- nomic production and political power within and across nation- states— perhaps exemplarily so during the age of decolonization (the true and obverse...

... Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1997) and Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (2012), Illouz focuses in particular on the transformation of romantic feelings in twentieth- and twenty-first-century North America and Europe, demonstrating their social and historical nature in opposition to...

... of billion-dollar bonuses for the very business “leaders” who were responsible for the meltdown—an inky black trail of endless zeros from whence red ink once bled out of the gaping wound of an impaled public trust. Four decades of neoliberal social and economic policy have strangulated not...

...). didier fassin is the James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Sci- ence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Re- search Institute...

... connotation of the word as it appears in the title of Ferdinand Tonnies's groundbreaking book Community and Society published in 1887. Within the title Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft lies a sweeping distinction between two forms of social existence. Gemeinschaft points to an ideal state of social...

... dimension can no longer be imagined as pure or abstract. Rather, it has to be referred back to concrete culturally and socially marked subjectivities. A variety of theoretical responses have been formulated to the question of how aesthetic experience can be reimagined within the...

... argument by way of a discussion about the debates surrounding the writing and ratifi cation of that amendment. As such, this part seems to address scholars of constitutional law, even those with originalist leanings. Part 2, “The Social Contract Outlaws Nuclear Weapons,” consists...

.... stephen dillon is assistant professor of queer studies in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College. His re- search on race, sexuality, feminism, and incarceration has appeared in Radical History Review, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and the edited collection...

... theory. ACHILLE MBEMBE is currently Senior Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). He has held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and the Council for the Development...

... States. On the other hand, and this is the more crucial point, ban- lieues and ghetto are the legacies of different urban trajectories and arise from disparate criteria of classification and forms of social sorting: Relegation operates first and foremost on the basis of class...

...Bonnie Ruberg A review of McGlotten Shaka , Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality ( Albany : State University of New York Press , 2013 ). Cited in the text as vi . Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Cruising Dystopia The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection in...

... arrangement of humanity faded as well, and the form of social relations required justification. But the interest that was philosophically registered in the course of the rising nation-states denied at the same time the specific sphere we call society. In con- trast to the great Scholastics, modern...