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...Chris Carter; Stefano Harney Abstract The authors reflect on Stanley Aronowitz's influence in the 2000s on the then emerging fields of critical accounting and critical management studies, recalling his visits to Leicester University, and the subsequent visit the authors organized together where...

... of a colonial ecology structured around producing Man. This allows both for critical accounts of how coloniality shapes institutions such as schools and universities, always in relation to many other institutions and sites, and for speculative experiments in queer, decolonial, abolitionist education...

...Laura-Zoë Humphreys This article examines the changing dynamics of censorship and social criticism in revolutionary Cuban cinema in order to make a case for studying allegory not as a mode whose meanings analysts should (or should not) reveal but, rather, as a contested social process. From...

...H. N. Lukes This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower, the article...

... abstraction, a way of conceiving of value production, surplus and social accounting actualized through racial expropriation and war. 14 As a critical historian, I employ a method of study that investigates concrete historical practices to grasp the social abstractions that they embody. The emancipation...

... are expected to become competitive, creative, and self‐interested risk takers but find themselves in a world where, for the vast majority, risks are proliferating and unmanageable. This approach can offer a useful supplement to other critical theorizations of the recent resurgence of fascist cultural politics...

.... “There was no thinking evident, no reasoning process at all,” Urrea suggests of their final moments.14 For the question The Devil’s Highway ultimately poses, inscribed within and throughout this account, is not why the events named after the Wellton 26 had to happen but rather — in a more critical fashion — why...

...” by music critic Peter Shapiro and “a soap opera set to music” by the vocalist Judy Torres, there is general agreement that freestyle is constituted by a nebulous Latin feel that is spoken about but not necessarily accounted for (beyond its use of Roland TR-808 Claves).2 But I enter...

...Tryon P. Woods This essay explores the ethicopolitical context in which black art, black performance, black social movements, and black popular culture find expression. I configure the critical study of hip hop within an accounting of the materiality of antiblack sexual violence in which the modern...

... and Black Atlantic slavery employ both the critical consultation of dominant archives and the innovative investigation or presentation of alternative materials. In Saltwater Slavery (2007), for example, Stephanie Smallwood reads the ledgers, accounts...

... sciences, conceptually it has infused a broad range of theoretical, material, and scientific idioms for describing the malleability of a given body or system. Each of these conceptions of plasticity provides an account of malleability that, seemingly inexhaustible in its disorganizing qualities, has...

... beyond as a framework for how institutional land acknowledgments can or cannot support Indigenous relationality, land pedagogy, and accountability to place and peoples. The authors describe the critical differences between Indigenous protocols of mutual recognition and settler practices of land...

... specifically focuses on the latest iteration of the urban greenery frenzy: the Gardens of the Nation. By studying how this nationwide urban greenery drive has been designed, promoted, discussed, inaugurated, and used, this article provides an account for the critical role green aesthetics play in conjuring up...

... clear in critical accounts of British punk, decentering London’s the Sex Pistols and the Clash in favor of Scottish or Irish punk, Mancunian inventiveness, or Sheffield’s early techno. The powerful influence of these nodes of course reflected connections, through real and imagined linkages...

... being in the sake. Instead they should explore “a new path for the future by ‘forgetting themselves,’ and becoming [new societies12 And, finally, William Con- future, Said nolly draws on Nietzsche’s critical account...

... a critical accounting of, among other things, the religious vectors of the US State’s carceral archipelago. The prison regime’s embodied violence, dramatized in the journalistic accounts of sites like Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo and in cinematic portrayals of torture and black sites, brings to bear different...

... on the “great men” of curating rather than social histories of the making of curatorial work. Across multiple studies, we can find glimpses of how the structural and institutional conditions and practices of professional curatorial work have been composed. We might look to critical accounts of the formation...

... they cannot escape. If this combination of domination and decision is rendered invisible in the terms of Agamben’s analysis, it arguably forms the center of critical accounts of contemporary neoliberal governance. As the work of many thinkers has made clear, neoliberal governance operates through...

... remains a custodian of the constitutive itineracy of South African jazz. Its practices are as pertinent to critical accounts of her negotiation of the conflicting claims of musical agency, cultural nationalism, and state prohibition in Conakry as they are in Sophiatown. Read from the vantage point...

... The counterdisposition necessitates sometimes not just giving up on or rejecting but standing inside the terms of subjection and subjugation, turning them upon themselves, putting them to more productive critical deployment. Demilitarization is a disposition of insurgency, an account or analysis of dominant...