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...Sage Gerson Abstract In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access...

... Electricity Theft” turns to the electrical grid as both an infrastructural mediator of electrical power in the United States and a materialization of power itself. The essay triangulates three “electrifictions” focused on the relationship between Blackness and electricity: General Electric (GE)’s “electric...

... the principle productive force (through machines): Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs...

... practices, modes of scholarship, and disciplinary or interdisciplinary formations are entangled with histories of land theft, slavery, forced labor, the politics of the nation state, ecological devastation, and ongoing struggles over the meaning of the human . In the mess of these entanglements, other...

... (“a tagging machine was in operation, so that the fish might be taken anywhere without the owner running afoul of the New York State Game Commission40 Visitors sampled produce, rode electric hobbyhorses, played mechanical golf games, threw suction darts, tossed bottles...

... as traces of their wondrous encounters. A shredded piece of a Coke bottle wrapper, an electric blue string unraveled in a tangle of threads, a piece of white tile whose patterns resembled a spread of flower petals. They were transgressions into the minimalist form with which we all began, and they were...

... parent reported: Just wanted to let you know that my son, Year 7, was just the victim of an attempted mugging at the junction of Queens Avenue and Queens Lane (behind Barclays). At 3.15pm. Figure 2. “Theft,” Muswell Hill Broadway no. 10. Photograph by Rashmi Varma. Figure 2. “Theft,” Muswell...

... by invoking another North African case, this one from Fetj-M’Zala, Algeria. There, according to Ho, the escape of a prisoner who had been arrested for theft and who continued to elude colonial police forces was followed by the summary detention...

... that this physical change does not undo the histories of violence that swirl around her eye: Attending school in the former state jail when one of her classmates tells her that a circular imprint on the ground is where the electric chair used to be. Or her brother's memory that after Walker was shot in the eye, her...

...” to the grace of “Sunday Candy” to the breaking and broken promises of “Hey Mama” written before and performed again and often after Kanye West loses his mother. For Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother is a meditation on the dis/possessions of slavery. The theft of a homeland and the loss of a mother...

... carnival practice must cease at ten o’clock. The policeman is to the stick-­fghter and ‘pierrot’ as the sanitary inspector is to mosquito larvae. At nights when the streets are bright with electric light, the art of the law is larger, its grip stronger. Gone are the old lawlessness...

..., The Mental Labor Problem 7 1. Ross 4/24/00 11:21 AM Page 8 does not differ from the manufacture of electricity or the supply of trans- portation or house-cleaning services.”10 In this respect, of course, Baumol...

... . European artists have since the early twentieth century drawn on African art for inspiration in ways that foreground ideas of copying: African imitations of nature and European theft of African aesthetics because Europeans attribute African artistic expression to skills of observation and culture rather...