... that the financial sector both orchestrates a fundamentally unequal global division of creative labor and lays claim to an inherent creative power and a duty to unleash “creative destruction” on social and economic life. The essay suggests that the idea of the derivative can help illuminate the wooly rhetoric...

...Elihu Rubin Each fall and spring, the author asks his students to dérive , to engage in the Situationist practice of “drift” — a short definition might be to wander on foot without itinerary. The dérive is introduced as the third research method in a series that explores social meanings within...

... in economics for her work on the commons, the essay criticizes the powerful and influential 1968 article “The Tragedy of the Commons” by the biologist Garrett Hardin. It demonstrates how Hardin's central argument is derived from the ideas of a nineteenth-century Oxford professor responding to a protracted...

... that sanctioned the conquest of Native American tribes and lands and how between 1901 and 1921 they derived a similar status for the United States' insular colonies. It then foregrounds another interrelationship between Puerto Rico and its homologues: connected geostrategic and economic logics from the early...

..., activism, and state responses to blood-borne outbreaks across the United States and PRC, this essay outlines a constellation of viral infections derived from plasma coerced from US prisoners and PRC rural villagers. Viruses archive the structural violences of the global pharmaceutical and blood...

... subaltern nor permanently alienated from Europe as foreigners, these extra-Europeans have suffered neglect in the construction of major historical narratives. We present three case studies deriving from the British and Habsburg empires: a converted “Turk” in Catholic Munich, a London parish shaped by its...

...Aharon de Grassi A new detailed map of mainly precolonial paths in Africa can be derived from a late nineteenth-century map series. The map is useful less for its precision than for suggesting new understandings and questions about the roles of indigenous shaping of landscapes of connection. While...

... as the colloquy, offer a salient political allegory for the relation of the United States to the question of Palestine writ large when read as a dyad as they are intended to be. In closing, the article attempts to apply the theory of intellectuals derived from Said’s work by reflecting on the potential...

...Amy B. Trubek This article examines, deriving from Aristotelian concepts of the human right to a good life, the moral values that underlie contemporary efforts to transform the food system. Through qualifying labels such as organic, local, artisan, fair trade, healthy , and sustainable , foods...

.... They are derived fully from the general nature of slavery itself, which cannot, therefore, in any sense be defined by them. This ap- pears to be aimed at all those who, while not denying the broadly symbolic or, alternatively, juridical quali- ties of the concept of slavery--and therefore...

..., dividends, or capital gains.”8 What do a credit card, a derivative contract, a ten-­year treasury bill, and a layaway account at JCPenney have in common? They all participate in this temporal displacement and recuperation, and they all are mediated by an expecta- tion of future payment and future...

... pool of financialized value. That is to say, with the introduction of sound technologies, the studio is able to derive value in new ways out of the labor of the actor. The bodily performance — repeated over multiple takes, captured by film, the voice captured by recorders (and often rerecorded...

... in innate human rationality, considered as an attribute, if not a realization, throughout the species. Author• ity must derive from contract or consent. This line of thought posited slavery as the absolute antithesis of legitimate authority. The explorations of the nature of slavery...

... in the historical consciousness and levelling doctrines of professionals, students, and other adherents through the 1960s and 1970s. And, retaining some impetus on the left in the struggles and repression of the 1980s, new bodies consciously derived from the NEUM position have arisen in Cape Town...

... told pollsters that they would vote for Or- tega may have responded to a real or imagined sense of intimida- tion. Others may have joined the marches out of a sense of opporhtnism (betting on the winner). However, I think it is far more likely that this dual behavior derived from...

... derived from African roots. Its appropriate- ness to the black South African urban setting resulted ”from the comparable experience of the two peoples under white domina- tion Whereas those focusing on questions of musical structure and form had concluded that new forms were degraded, those like...

... a reconsideration of what he called the grid of “identities, similitudes and analogies.” The grid arranges categories and therefore, by virtue of their proximity, provides a site where meaning is derived from the inter- section of language and space.2 Foucault roots his analysis in a spatial metaphor...

.../RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW and to the indirect ravages of war-pestilence, disease, and famine) and 4,200 for the Americans. Some set the Filipino toll as high as one million, once all war-derived health perils have been duly considered. On the U.S. side the savagery of the war certainly...

... is not surprising. However, that these enemies derive not from the Daughters of the Confederacy or the Grand Army of the Republic but descendants-real and spiritual-f the abolitionists who sponsored the 54th and the men who fought in its ranks, does come as something of a shock. Writing in the Washington...

... practical response to the limited social and economic opportunities open to them in their usual feminine guise. She denies they may have been driven by erotic impulse or derived sexual pleasure from the consequences of their choice. Only when physicians accorded this originally neutral social...