... Culture at Super Illu It was not so long ago that one could look at divided Germany and see a Dominic Boyer microcosm of geopolitical order. Two states with economies that ranked them among the world’s leading industrial powers faced each other across...

... expression of cultural reunification: the magazine Super Illu. The history of Soviet-era socialism is of course difficult to invoke publicly except in terms of failure. The domestication of socialist history through a combination...

... Markets, Mediating Labors, and the Branding of East German Culture at Super Illu Dominic Boyer 9 The Senses of Water in an Omani Town Mandana E. Limbert 35 Philoctetes Revisited: White Public Space and the Political Geography of Public Safety...

.... This roundtable explores Brown’s 2013 Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761: A Cartographic Narrative, an online animated map that illu- minates the pathways of the approximately fifteen hundred enslaved men and women who staged one of the largest slave rebellions in the history of the British Empire...

... such as prostitutes and sailors, met by his concept of the past flashing up to illu- minate the present.33 Following the lead of Abraham and Torok, of Ben- jamin, of works like these two films, we might imagine ourselves haunted by ecstasy...

... no circumstances do I take to be a spurious or illu- sory one. The enormity of what has been ruined is not in doubt, and evi- dence of the destruction is everywhere to be seen. I am concerned instead with the possibilities of living...

... pollution of bloodlines . . . , thus scrambling the inheritance of property relationships and status.”45 Amy Dru Stanley’s history of wage and mar- riage contracts in the wake of the abolition of slavery is a remarkable illus- tration of the nexus between the right to sell one’s labor and coverture.46...

..., however, illu- minates the latter’s preoccupation with the nature of the modern late in his life in unexpected ways. The remarkable discovery that Ranajit Guha, too, has Eliot’s Gerontion in mind in relation to his book (he quotes, in an epigraph, the following lines: “After such knowledge, what...

... to recast this terrible history by creating the illu- sion of white society’s innocence” (21). romanticizing what Said has The Romance and Violence of U.S. Travel Cultures termed as the At the turn of the twentieth century...

... the slippery con- notations Durham brings to that term: it is poetic carpentry that forgoes the seamless join in favor of “glue and screws and nails and other connec- tors” that make incom- mensurability visible. Despite the artist’s refusal to supply the illu- sion...

... to normative power may in their daily lives know very little about either structural or personal violence. The long history and magnified present of gay assimilation illus- trates these varying degrees of possibility and power...

..., represent one such challenge. They testify to the ways in which a profoundly modern and original project can come from the Third World and transform cultural politics far beyond its putative zones. As Sison’s forced disappearance in American universities illus- trates, the untimely capitulation...

... space for learning, these occasions also illus- trated how la parada provided the men with an arena for social exchange. For instance, many of the men were coping with the tormenting emotional situation of the separation from one’s family, friends, and country. The men were grateful to have...

... facing our own mortality, we are given the illu- sion that our lives have purpose, order, and form so long as we can ensure that those future generations will exist. The fantasy of futurity therefore “assures the stability of our identities as subjects” and ensures coherence to “the Imaginary...

..., illus- trates the style of writing adopted by the New Arabs: Z. N. Tai ba , 5.1.1967 Mr. Amnon Linn: I am Z. N. from the village of Taiba, I applied for an opening of inspec- tor on 1 December 1966, advertised by the Arab department at the ministry...

... identified at the time, visvis my own generically brown condition, as a Queer Illu- minati), I could not help but realize that I too was obliging Gay Shame’s desire for brown spectacle. The circumstance was a familiar one: a schol- arly presentation deteriorates...

... in the Giants organization, specifically thanking Pompez during his Hall of Fame acceptance speech in 1984. 37. Robert Boyle, “The Private World of the Negro Ballplayer,” Sports Illus- trated, 21 March 1960, 19...

... with trauma and the limits or workings of “cultural anesthesia” (Feldman 1994), as many scholars examining the politics of memory have illus- trated, but from a mundane confrontation with nostalgia, a nostalgia that was spilling...

...” and “outsides.” Yet as the film illus- trates in its account of the dif- ficulties facing youth trying to travel across...

..., to use Ernst Bloch’s words, “this halfness,” this “tremolo between illu- sion and depth.”23 Neither Derrida nor Bloch wrote particularly about the camps. “Sense . . . reaches me only by leaving in the same movement,” wrote Jean-­Luc Nancy in Listening.24...