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... the vulnerability of students with diagnosed or diagnosable mental illness is a first step toward imagining a more humane response to their troubles. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Madness after Virginia Tech From Psychiatric Risk to Institutional Vulnerability Benjamin Reiss Perhaps...

...La Marr Jurelle Bruce Madtime is a renegade rhythm, a radical mode of doing and feeling time that coincides with phenomenologies of madness. This essay details four variations of madtime: the quick, restless time of mania; the slow, sorrowful time of depression; the infinite, exigent now...

...Lucas Crawford Abstract This article argues for what the author calls a trans-mad aesthetic of space, defined as designs or artworks that embark, sense, emote, and collect, in ways that queerly disrupt the norms of the public sphere. These four aesthetic operations resist, in turn, four current...

... interdisciplinary prospect, and the contributors call on disability studies, trans studies, Black studies, women-of-color feminism, visual culture, and the history of sexuality, generating emergent concepts, including crip-of-color critique (Kim), binary-abolitionist praxis (Stryker), a “trans-mad” aesthetic...

... often provided their conditions of emergence, differ. It is an important argument (if by now a commonplace one) that the very idea of Reason was constituted in part through a series of exclusions—of madness, of woman, and so on. One strategy for problematizing Reason is therefore to demonstrate...

... of the wild. It does so by offering us utopic visions but also by joining those visions to madness, failure, and the temporality of the belated, darkness, and negativity. Take the work of Nick Cave, a black gay artist who builds what he calls Soundsuits from...

... of seemingly enig- matic viruses and diseases that ignore national borders, such as HIV; tuberculosis; hepatitis A, B, and C; mad cow disease; and hoof and mouth disease; not to mention the association of many of these ills with particu- lar transnationalized...

... described as velhinhos (old people) or loucos (mad). I began to think of them as part of a hidden and uncharted local AIDS reality. No one ever came to visit Sida. I was told that she does not speak to anyone and that sometimes she does not eat for three...

... as velhinhos (old people) or loucos (mad). I began to think of them as part of a hidden and uncharted local AIDS reality. No one ever came to visit Sida. I was told that she does not speak to anyone and that sometimes she does not eat for three or four days straight. “We...

... 2013 12 7 sexual excess, wardrobe malfunction, or psychological breakdown. In Lady Gaga, however, feminine performative excess finds a new performance horizon and hovers between madness, mayhem, and the dark side. Performative...

... received the body were young. Trauma practice was young, droning about all that talk of genius and mental illness in 500 words or so. Name a schizophrenic on the dream list. Your favorite Lou Gehrig or The Madness of King George , one of my favorite flicks. I saw it with a lover I lost, her eyes...

..., and Memory in Barnum’s America (Harvard University Press), The- aters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-­Century American Culture (University of Chicago Press), and (as editor) The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is at work on a book on sleep...

..., in his graduate thesis, “Ensayo sobre la patogenia de la locura” (“Essay on herself, subject to the Pathogeny of Madness did everything possible to show that there was no space in the organism for the action of internal, autonomous forces the caprice of her possessed...

... of instrumental mad- perpetuation. ness that surpasses September 11, right up to the contemporary manifes- tation of “our” participation in the imperial administration of Afghanistan, whose justification is, for Harpham, on the one hand unproblematically reasonable and, on the other hand, in its incomplete...

..., including HIV/AIDS and sexuality education. Melanie Nicholson is associate professor of Spanish at Bard College. She is the author of Evil, Madness, and the Occult in Argentine Poetry (University Press of Florida) and has published articles on twentieth-cen­ tury Latin American poetry...

... illness,’ says attorney Russell Clanton. ‘Those who don’t go mad become incredibly strong individuals.’ ”36 That strength and its challenges are what Bretches names as the point of identification between himself and the dogs...

... that redounds back all the way to settler colonialism in the Americas, the middle passage—to 1492. Such is the economic logic of the “coloniality of power” cum racial capitalism. As you so hauntingly express this logic, “ ‘Kill them all,’ now a habit of madness echoing from Tel Aviv to Washington...

... paint thickly spread all over their body. At the end of an enchanting yet pained performance, “the last one standing” moves into a backlit room. Matrix-like sentinels hang on the wall in gigantic proportion. Orange and blue glass globes flash with the dystopic signs of a civilization gone mad...

... the film’s ulti- mate mad doctor, creates the woman’s perfect skin through digital manip- ulation. Anaya/Vera’s skin, digitally enhanced during the postproduction process, is the result of a second transgenesis, an extratextual one over- laid...

...,” he scolded Arpan. “You were already halfway mad, and when you get all the way mad you will have reached nirvana!” Arpan, Chauhan said, turning to me, won’t brush cows or whisper wishes in their ears or drink the gau mutra because he doesn’t believe in loving particular animals. That’s right, Arpan...