... frameworks are unable to contain. If we are, finally, as Haraway asserts, partners (with dogs) in a crime of evolution, it is not a crime prosecutable through the assignment of blame to the sovereign subject conceived in humanist terms. Newer ways to think agency, subjectivity, and social collectivity...

...Heather Gautney This essay discusses the evolution of state theory from G. W. F. Hegel to Gilles Deleuze, with a focus on the ways in which the state has been theorized as a mechanism of egalitarian social change. Following Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's empire thesis, it raises the question...

...Ashley Dawson Contemporary modes of biopolitical manipulation and commodification entail a radically new political economy of nature, a wholesale shift from the laws of biological evolution and development that have subtended much of the temporal imagination of modernity. In place of the notions...

... Lamarck’s principle of “functionally-acquired modifications, transmitted and increased,” as the essential mechanism of species change. 14 Building on Spencer’s popular ideas, the American School of Evolution developed and retailed its neo-Lamarckian evolutionism in academic scholarship, lectures...

... on the present, or of the present on the past, for example, the convergent wave and the anticipated potential, which imply an inversion of time. More than breaks or zigzags, it is these reverse causalities that shatter evolution. —Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari In the age of cybernetic...

... the teaching of evolution in its public schools by approving a new cur- riculum, which removed evolution from the state tests that students are required to take. As radical a move as this may have seemed, the Kansas board did not stop there. A balanced curriculum, in its...

... into species plasticity — its material recombinations of human and nonhuman animal and experiments in accelerating orangutan evolution — are ultimately powerless against this genealogy of race and species. Nora ’s play with ape-human xenotransplantation ends up evoking, over and over, figures of surplus...

... to the dynamic and processual character” of what Pearson refers to as “machinic evolution.”18 Consistent with the contentious rethinking of evolution in the work of Lynn Margulis 10 Patricia Ticineto Clough and Dorion Sagan, the thought...

... become purely and simply indistinguishable. One fact that is paramount in my eyes is this: we, men of color, at this precise moment in our historical evolution, have come to grasp, in our consciousness, the full breadth of our singularity, and are ready to assume on all levels and in all areas...

... primordial ancestor so long yearned for in the popular imaginary, thereby easing the acceptance of Darwinian theories of evolution at a time when experts and the lay public alike labored intensively to discover any form of originary whiteness. By contrast...

... is only theory, and if evolution is a theory, so is creationism.5 Presidential candidates enter the dreamscape extolling the virtues of “local” choice. Gore “favors teaching evolution,” adding that “localities should be free to teach creationism...

... organisms by commingling bits of viral genomes within them. This promiscuous capac- ity leads some researchers to hypothesize that cellular evolution depends on viral evolution such that “we” would not even be without “them.” Despite this possible ontological and biological dependence, humans still...

... from these other narratives. The traditional narrative of secularization is part of a broader socio- logical narrative about societal development or evolution (depending on the version). Expounded quintessentially...

... on molecular evolution. In addition to the aesthetic impulses underlying the quest for knowledge in itself, two practical considerations explicitly motivate this work. One is potential health benefits thought to derive from correctly assigning biological functions to particular alleles.9...

... would breach the human/animal divide, again remapping human difference in terms of biology through his theory of evolution. Along with the life sciences come more sophisticated forms of demography and economics as a science of scarcity, producing the new figure of biocentric Man (Man2, for Wynter...

... and parcel of numerous fields and disciplines in the US academy, most prominently queer literary studies, gay and lesbian history, and law and legal advocacy, among others. At the same time, this special issue is a sampling of compelling scholarship—by no means exhaustive—exploring the evolution...

... cinematic allegories. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Cinematic Contact Zones Hemispheric Romances in Film and the Construction and Reconstruction of Latin Americanism Adrián Pérez Melgosa Current debates about the origins and evolution of Latin Americanism focus primarily...

... with the emergence of both entomology and evolutionary theory, psychoanalysis portrays gregarious insect life as an evolution of mechanistic social organization over primitive animal instinct. Sigmund Freud saw the organization of bees, ants, and termites as a model for human evolution from primitive...

... the now self-aware clone in the wild. For a show that films only ten episodes a season, Orphan Black is densely packed with action, violence, and scientific terminology about the genetic technologies now currently deployed to explain and potentially manipulate human evolution. Each of the episode...

....1 A. James Arnold wrote nearly thirty years ago that the second article deserves “more than pass- ing attention in considering Césaire’s difficult political evolution during the first decade of the postwar period.”2 They are equally significant as documents of a tumultuous historical moment...