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... , and recounts the origins and history of the journal in some detail. The piece describes the ways the editorial collective has functioned since 1979, both in the production of the journal itself and in a variety of other activities (including meetings, soirées, and conference panels). The introduction also...

... Andrew Ross, Sohnya Sayres, Bruce Robbins, Randy Martin, John Brenkman, and Anders Stephanson discuss the venues where the collective met face-to-face: conversations and debates at manuscript reviews and formal meetings, but also the role of reading groups, conferences, and the soirees held...

... of the Third World imagined a decolonizing world system, which allowed them to rethink culture and humanity as historical categories. To describe the nature of the world system of decolonization, I consider three foundational works that saw print following the historic Bandung Conference in 1955: Frantz...

... is paradoxically evacuated and preserved in the imprint of its absence from the market and as such is conferred upon those goods remaining upon the shelves. Exception and abjection, therefore, respectively describe the biopolitical and affective dimensions of waste and the preconditions of commodity exchange. I...

... learning places of theaters and clubs as much as classrooms and conferences, and following Jean-Luc Nancy—as does Muñoz—to understand “world” here as referring to that which “is said in every saying,” this essay considers how Muñoz’s aesthetic theory encourages promiscuity among fields of knowledge. ©...

...José Quiroga Originally delivered as a talk in a New York University conference titled Queer Cuba, organized by José Esteban Muñoz and others, this essay explores the present and the past histories of homosexuality and revolution, and it zeroes in on the work and presence of a group of young Cuban...

... US settler modernity been constituted by this usurious necropolitics of the promise, even as it continually confers upon itself the temporal exception of debt imperialism? This analysis reveals that what is at stake in US settler modernity is not only the elision of conquest and genocide...

...Ed Cohen This essay focuses on the controversy incited by Thabo Mbeki's comments at the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference, held in Durban in 2000, which unleashed a deluge of opprobrium that has inundated the South African president since then. By analyzing the ensuing discursive conflict...

...Judith Halberstam Duke University Press 2005 Shame and White Gay Masculinity When I first received an invitation to speak at the University of Michigan’s Judith Halberstam “Gay Shame” conference, I felt...

...Figure 1. Poster for the conference Future Promises: The Life and Work of Stanley Aronowitz. ...

... are prompted by my confrontation with queer theory at the “Gay Shame” conference at the University of Michigan, 27–29 March 2003. The location and date are significant to situating this conference historically, especially for a discussion of identity politics...

...: The Structure of an Alternative Conference Given the history of unequal relations between the global North and the global South, we have tried to keep before us the consequences of regional power differentials, and to jettison the comforting...

... of the First Generation of Korean Adoptees. 1999 . Conference program, Washington, D.C., 10-12 September . Ginsburg, Faye, and Rayna Rapp. 2001 . Enabling disability: Rewriting kinship, reimagining community. Public Culture 13 : 533 -56. Gupta, Akhil, and James Ferguson. 1992 . Beyond culture...

... it in Human Condition , “The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability . . . the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle” (178). 40 Levinson, “Paradox of Natality,” 17 . 41 UNESCO, “General Conference — First Session,” 55...

... of Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criti- cism, 1909–1949 (Duke University Press, 2001) and of Digital Diasporas: A Race for Cyberspace (forthcoming from the State University of New York Press). She was a co-organizer of the 2001 “Race in Digital Space” conference at the Massachusetts...

... the “Humanities + Digital: Visual Interpreta- tions Conference” hosted by the HyperStudio at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology in May 2010. The event fostered a “cross-disciplinary exploration of the aesthetics, methods, and critiques of information visu...

... on the New York Bill of Rights campaign, and I examine the narratives used in press conferences, legal hearings, and media interviews in support of the bill. I argue that the narratives drew on long-standing cultural tropes of bad masters, individual victims, and the home as a site of care that have longer...

... Speaks , July 31 , 1962 . Pittsburgh Courier . “ Mister Muhammad’s Message to African-Asian Conference! ” January 18 , 1958 . Prashad Vijay . The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World . New York : New Press , 2008 . Radwan M Ramzy . “ Why I Chose...

... of the hotel's opulent decor. Most of the men were huddled together in serious discussion, while several younger women cheerfully checked them in to the security conference that they were waiting to attend. A large banner behind the group revealed that the event was being hosted by a DC think tank notorious...