... generally. The essay analyzes how the minority man's experience of heteronomy and helplessness congeals in him a feeling of emasculation, which he, in turn, tries to overcome by performing violence over a subject even more vulnerable than himself. Thus, the essay argues that in order to force himself...

...Sage Gerson Abstract In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access...

...Emily Drumsta; Keith P. Feldman This article addresses a critical inflection point in the history of the long War on Terror: Israel’s 1992 deportation of over four hundred Palestinians to the “no-man’s-land” between Israel and Lebanon, and the camp that the deportees fashioned for the better part...

... puso ko at buhay man sa iyo'y ibibigay” (You are my only land, my love, the Philippines. I will give my heart and life to you). These songs had been drummed into my head, and for a time their reassuring tone and beat made me believe that everything was orderly, normal, and peaceful. The word...

...Jonathan Beller; Jayna Brown; Erin Manning; Minh-Ha T. Pham; Macarena Gómez-Barris; Aimee Meredith Cox; Neferti X. M. Tadiar Abstract This collectively written essay meditates on sociality, mediation, death, and life during Pandemic 2020. [email protected] [email protected]...

..., historical context, speculation, a little hope, and a lot of skepticism. I was angry but not surprised when police took more Black lives, even as the demonstrations grew: Tony McDade, a twenty-seven-year-old transgender man killed by Tallahassee police two days after Floyd; David Macatee, a fifty-three-year...

... identify as African Americans, and one identifies as a gay man. 45 This positionality schism among Wikipedia's editors is reflected in the other areas of this discussion thread, where LGBTQ+ and women editors speak for themselves or their communities in opposition to the implied white cisgender straight...

...Erin Manning Creating the conditions for neurodiversity in the university is not about creating a space for difference, a space where difference sequesters itself. It is about attuning to the undercommon currents of creative dissonance and asymmetrical experience always already at work in, across...

.... A Filipino gay man I interviewed also talked about what he perceived to be the disappearance of the groups of men that he labeled as Arabo for “Arab,” for the Middle Eastern and South Asian men who used to hang out in a couple of corners...

... the procedures of emancipation as imperial “Man’s” effort to capture, domesticate, and rule the incalculable and unclaimed rami financial instruments and cations of hundreds of years of his own death making. 15 The necropower unleashed by the Slavery Abolition Act and its procedures was erotic and mythopoetic...

... of the Artist as a Young Man , Henry Roth's Call It Sleep , Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man , and centrally, Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco all connect with one another through a preoccupation with electricity as an akasic medium for the creation of urban imagined communities. The essay further deals with public...

... of as always entangled. The editors elaborate this ecological view by drawing on theories of coloniality, especially the work of Sylvia Wynter (and her human/Man distinction) and Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (in The Undercommons ). In this framing, the university appears as a specific, but not isolated, part...

... to the revelations concerning Stalin in Khrushchev's famous “Secret Speech” and to the PCF's reluctance to deStalinize. He soon turns, however, to considerations related to his “position as a man of color.” He claims that it has become clear to him that the struggle against racism and colonialism cannot be reduced...

...Carla Freccero The killing of San Francisco resident Diane Whipple in front of her Pacific Heights apartment door in San Francisco in 2001 by Presa Canario dogs provides a framework in this article for identifying a “carnivorous virility” in the merging of man and dog. Dogs, according to Donna...

... corresponding figure, homo sacer , or sacred man. It does so through a discussion of Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 film Children of Men , looking at how the film's story line—an infertile world in which one refugee, Kee, is found to be pregnant—links pregnancy to political systems that regulate who gets counted...

... into the Chinese language and can be traced to, among other things, the enduring hierarchism of the junzi (gentleman) and xiaoren (small man) as presented in The Analects of Confucius . I examine the junzi-xiaoren dyad for the characteristic bifurcation of the human that it has engendered, in which selflessness...