...After Globalism Writing Group “The Future of the Here and Now” considers the mixed temporalities of the Anthropocene. Rather than assume there is one experience of dystopic futures, the collective troubles unilinear models of past, present, and future. We also address the pressurized condition...

...After Globalism Writing Group This essay introduces the special issue “ Here and Now ,” taking stock of the current political moment and outlining the collective writing process used to produce the issue. 5 We’ve wound up with a funny hybrid: “Here and Now (under Erasure)” as the searchable...

..., a cut I perceive in the here and now, a change I want to linger with, that puts the university at risk in the very same gesture that it puts neurodiversity at risk. It is about asking what happens when the turn toward neurodiversity begins to be felt in a way that neurotypicality is truly threatened...

.... For Muñoz, if queerness is always on the horizon and not-yet-here, brownness is situated in the here-and-now as the materiality of everyday life. While others have taken up the coda of Cruising Utopia as a call to take ecstasy with the utopian thinker, this article begins with the ends and fringes...

... are especially brittle, breaking off cleanly as the contingencies of their unstable bodies intervene. Here, the enduring temporality of the social is secondary to practices of being between emergence and collapse. Addressing sociality here is not a romantic celebration of precarity or resilient intimacies...

... teaches us that we must shift our attention from the why of power to the how;25 in other words, here we must now ask how power functions by intervening at the raw level of biological life to Social Text 94 • Spring 2008 4 3...

... unaccountable. It looks to countersovereign and aesthetic practices that attempt to account for the dead, the disappeared, and the noncitizen and to widen the range of possibilities for calculating loss and gain, for giving a proper, unsettling account of the here and now. References Anderson Monica...

... the assembly line to the eye, provided a new model for production, for work. Formerly unremunerated, but now, here you are reading this, if not on your screen, then after having it and yourself passed through so many screens, so many microadjustments in the network of exchanges that brings it to you and you...

...After Globalism Writing Group This essay concludes the special issue “ Here and Now ” by reflecting on the limits of the language available to us when we try to define the present juncture. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 book sprint care language neoliberalism Let’s end...

...Jonathan Beller The programmatic erasure of the concept of capitalism by the state (here paradigmatically represented by the state of Texas) is allied with the waning of Fredric Jameson’s dialectical concept of postmodernism. “Postmodernism” as the critique of the cultural logic of late capitalism...

...After Globalism Writing Group This text chronicles the book sprint process through which we wrote “ Here and Now ”: the events and conversations that prompted it, the contours of our five days of collaborative writing, and the challenges of finishing something we made together after we had gone...

... said. But what if the paste shows, the seams, the fractures? For us, here now at the edge of a city time of crisis blown up at its southern tip, the work of art must use the frame of the real, translating a script almost illegible, a code of traumatic...

... we recount does not need to be transmitted smoothly or transparently. What other forms of coding, encryption, and recounting might offer directives to contend with the then and now, the there and here? Yes, it’s true, all true. And if it isn’t, it might as well be, for the sake of the political...

... wrote on the Internet of her hopes to give her daughter “what she would need to have a fulfilling, but divided life.” The daughter, six-year-old Sierra Song E, echoed her mother’s thoughts: “Part of me lives here now and part of my heart...

... of modernity and the foxlike guardians of the chicken coop of Enlightenment (as if the average rooster could have ever thought up some stuff like that on his own). More specifically, this is to think about the question of this imperative to feel more here now given the history of American policy, a history...

... is a denial of the imag- ination. The imagination is our inbuilt instrument of othering, of thinking things that are not in the here and now, of wanting to become others. I was delighted to see, in a recent issue of the Sunday New Yo r k T...

..., as wood beneath the axe cracks down the middle, as rocks break up; had ripped him and felled him in a moment, so that John had not felt the wound, but only the agony, had not felt the fall, but only the fear; and lay here, now, helpless...

... from a stagnation in maquiladora growth: “Right now, this city is like Gary, Indiana. And if we can’t get new devel- opment in here, then everybody, not just the maquila industry, is going to have a problem. What’s good about this city...

.... But with the risk, you don’t know communities if you are going to make it or not. We all know that. We immigrants risk our lives to come to work here; now, if you make it, well, that is really...

... Islam. What is at stake here, now, is therefore not just a return to war, but a return to holy war, for holy war is that kind of war the modern West in which justice and necessity are merged in a theological mode. What makes...