... and science of moving goods, people, and information efficiently to maximize profit—inheres in the infrastructures it calls into being. It traces the history of the chain gang through the shackles used to immobilize enslaved people on the ship, in the coffle, and on plantations, contending that such iron...

..., such as “human rights” stake their claims, and capitalist endeavors maneuver resources and marshal profit. At present, much of posthumanist thought as well as animal studies suffer from an often implicit Euro-American focus and through that, ironically, a philosophical resuscitation of the status of “the human...

...Rob Appleford This article considers the problem of ironic subjectivity and materiality in the work of Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham. Durham's self-consciously rough sculptures were instrumental in promoting irony as a viable strategy for both the creation and interpretation of Native American art...

.... They also hoped to reassert the mano dura (or iron-fist style) penal order that had been loosened after the war. But as a symbolically dense figure, crystallizing the contradictions of the moment, El Directo's meaning would be reconfigured on multiple planes. The biospectacle represented both anxiety...

... of extraction and submitted to actuarial accounting while disappearing from the popular imaginary. The maintenance of white male identity in this matrix ironically depends on a fantasy act of self-amputation embodied especially in the eternal woundedness of Ronald Reagan. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...

... installation comprising a sculpture and an accompanying video. The standalone sculpture wears an iron face mask and iron collar around their neck, reminiscent of Anastácia, the revered saint of Brazilian Catholics and Umbanda practitioners. Anastácia became an image of resistance, propelled to prominence...

...) in the modern world, a world that begins with iron and glass. The Eiffel Tower is the starting point. Indeed, modernity might argu- ably be described as one long footnote to this tower. Indeed, both Ferris’s wheel and Tatlin’s...

... orifice correlates with Titus’s attempted phallic-political penetration/pollution of the Other. The transformation of the gnat into a sparrow from the death’s-head skull of Titus speaks to the transcendental nature and exceptionality of this asymmetric anti-imperial violence. Ironically...

... Ellen’s work offered over the last four decades, her insistence on pleasure — in work, politics, day-to-day life — has been, to my mind, the most necessary. Neither hedonistic abandon (which is at its core nihilistic) nor an ironic Sex and the City  –  style insouciance (because Ellen...

.... The interests of ironically—to the subject, or of the demographic group to which the subject is assigned, analyze, are considered only insofar as they align with the interests of the profi ler. These interests may well...

... the Indian woman from the violence and hostility directed against the Arab other, purport- edly allowing her to pass as an unmarked American. Ironically, in the 1980s, a neo-Nazi organization in the Jersey area had seized on the bindi as the visible marker of South Asian otherness. Calling...

... the historicality of what is humble and habitual” (94) (in effect, Tagore’s own description of his aim in writing the Galpaguchha), attempts to turn the historian, it seems, into a creative writer. Ironically, literary history shows...

.... The Heritage of Blaxploitation and The Brady Bunch One major form of cheese parody involves the ironic consumption of black and white culture created during the 1970s, a time when both racial groups were reimagining themselves...

... one to “bring on the hot irons!” Oh, Heaven forgive! The helpless victim almost went mad at the very thought of being tortured as he saw that he was going to be. He hollered out in an agonizing, heart-rending manner, “Oh, Lord, Mr. —  — , for God’s sake don’t burn me...

... discourse in Chinese stud- ies. Ironically, depoliticization is a Cold War legacy that has been intensi- fied by the globalization discourse. Depoliticization manifests itself in the modernization discourse as the guiding prism for studying developing and underdeveloped countries. Its related terms...

... it—illustrates the principles of an informatics of value that precede such devices by several centuries. Marx clearly sensed those principles when he ironically observed that capital's “beauty and greatness” lay in its capacity to facilitate “spontaneous interconnection” and self-regulation through a “material...

..., such as Odd Arne Westad applies in his recent work, the cold war was framed by (the failure of) decolonization, not the reverse. Ironically, the Soviet “empire of justice,” rather than contradicting, often played second fiddle to the U.S. “empire of liberty.” Both were invested heavily...

.... Ironically, the Soviet “empire of justice,” rather than contradicting, often played second fiddle to the U.S. “empire of liberty.” Both were invested heavily in bringing backward and deficient peoples into the orderings of science and state.4 Edward Said’s Orientalism (a work that is now perhaps...

..., such as Odd Arne Westad applies in his recent work, the cold war was framed by (the failure of) decolonization, not the reverse. Ironically, the Soviet “empire of justice,” rather than contradicting, often played second fiddle to the U.S. “empire of liberty.” Both were invested heavily...

..., such as Odd Arne Westad applies in his recent work, the cold war was framed by (the failure of) decolonization, not the reverse. Ironically, the Soviet “empire of justice,” rather than contradicting, often played second fiddle to the U.S. “empire of liberty.” Both were invested heavily...