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... as an optical engineer, expelled from the Chinese state in 1987 for marrying a Western colleague. “A Moonless Night” offers a reflection on memory, belonging, Cold War politics, and state power. 5. Bazdyrieva and Suess, “Future Forecast.” 6. Haraway, “Situated Knowledges,” 585 . 7. Parikka...

... on archivists' descriptions but on optical character recognition. The essay offers some analysis of the role of identity politics in shaping researchers' frameworks, as well as those of historical subjects, and of what such processes do to the space and practice of the queer archive. © 2014 by MARHO...

... “This space of state control can also be defined as being optical and visual. The human body has disappeared into a space that is equivalent to a series of images. . . . In modern space, the body no longer has a presence; it is only...

... in a much larger technopolitical endeavor of optical engineering and state surveillance. The issue is bookended by two wide-ranging roundtable discussions. The first, a conversation between Deborah Cowen and Laleh Khalili, deftly navigates the ongoing frictional politics of the contemporary moment...

... and instantaneous transaction networks; aston- ishingly rapid growth in small-scale, informal, and localized economies; a communications revolution pushed along by com- puters, mass media, cables, satellites, and fiber optics; regional and global environmental changes such as ozone holes, global warm...

...: The Story of a Fashion Revolution . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1999 . Hariman Robert , and Lucaites John Louis . “ The Iconic Image of the Mushroom Cloud and the Cold War Nuclear Optic .” In Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis , edited by Batchen Geoffrey...

... to the newly emerging economic order. Salazar described “Nuestra plataforma” to the governor as “anarchical, revolutionary and communistic.”41 In February the Las Vegas Optic newspaper advocated a compromise resolu- tion to the fence cutting: While the Optic does not approve of the acts of those...

... . 2007 . The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press . Azoulay Ariella . 2008 . The Civil Contract of Photography . Translated by Mazali Rela and Danieli Ruvik . New York : Zone Books . Azoulay...

..., an instance of early black Atlantic writing.16 However, if we shift our lens and examine this text as a work of political antislavery engagement in late-eighteenth-century London, the writings of this ex- slave open a different optic for us to examine the notion...

... in th[e] Soviet version of the welfare state” (23). This shift of the historical optic away from “what the party and its programs prevented to what they made possible, intentionally and unintentionally” (22), is enormously suggestive. The emphasis on Stalin- ism’s productive modalities of power...

... not engage with entangled local histories that may not be accessible through literature in English alone. Response from Antoinette Burton: Brown over Black is an attempt to think through the ideas and experiences of post- war Afro-­Asian solidarity through the optic of friction. It does so partly via...

..., closer to a social historical or juridical view of power as commodity, than to a Foucauldian optic. And this move is hardly surprising: given the "disciplinary apparatus" of the historical profession ifself, it is understandably difficult for the historian to hold knowledge and 204/RADICAL...

... history that are most striking. He argues that the ascending curve, which runs from ancient Greece to the Renaissance to modern times, is an optical illusion. In fact, he argues, for most of history Europe was an insignificant outlier of mainland Asia. Further- more, he notes, the Renaissance...

... with glittering spectacle, billowing fabrics, and optical trickery. A young painter regarded for his natural skill, he quickly garnered a reputation for large-­scale photo-­realist acrylic painting, sur- realist drawing, and metamorphic self-­permutations. He was the youngest member of an influential...

... . Evans Jennifer V. “ Introduction: Why Queer German History? ” German History 34 , no. 3 ( 2016 ): 371 – 84 . Evans Jennifer V. “ Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of Desire .” American Historical Review 118 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 430 – 62 . Florêncio...

... that precedes physical violence. Focusing on different optics, political scenarios, and motivations, the Museum explores how definitions of animality and nonhumanity function as justification for violence and exploitation of beings of all species in Western history. Instead of being an archive of violent...

... and historical unraveling — is what produces the archive as a compelling time and space for witnessing the mechanics of queer knowledge production. This second issue represents an elaboration on the meditation on historical unravelings in the first issue of “Queering Archives.” Through the optics...

..., but also argues, elsewhere in the article, for a hyper rela- tivism, according to which the past is an ”inaccessible fog,” which can only be grasped in contemporary terms. Wajda employs this optic in order to present Robespierre as a Stalinist and to demon- strate the futility of those who opposed...

... torn out her own eyeballs, optic nerves intact, is a powerful reminder of the ”authentic” record of the human condition that medical films, like early photographs, promised physicians and scientists during the early twentieth century (76). Similarly, Cartwright’s filmmakers often...

... considers how events analyzed by Dominguez from a traditional/modern perspective can take on a quite different coloration when viewed through a different optic. He argues, for example, that outbreaks of collective violence in the late colonial period posed no serious threat to the continuation...