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... flock and its enemies as constituted by the regime of power that Michel Foucault once called the “pastorate” of premodern Europe. With the rise of the modern governmental state, this medieval politico-theological enemy was translated in secular terms as a figure for ideological threats to civil order...

... suggests that the modern militarized state depends upon the rise of a racial thinking that he would consider secularized religiosity, and Ann Pellegrini, who is interested less in state power than in the perpetuation of medieval pastoral power as a way of continually reproducing the management...

... Esteban Muñoz, this essay suggests that sincerity also encodes racialized scripts of proper and improper affect and aligns them with dominant Christianity. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 neoliberalism US Supreme Court pastoral power religious freedom sincerity In Holt v...

... discourse can indeed render visible organizational perceptions of television’s capacity to administer pastoral power, governing populations through rehabilitative examples of individual minds and bodies in pain. But it also constitutes the reality genre as a realm of excess, not simply...

... in national cultures fealty” through pastoral power and can yet be deployed by alternative politics (1993, 12). In a similar vein, Ong (1999) points to the historical are resignified and shift in the role of Asian states from agents of development to agents of economic liberalization and their resultant...

... confess, at times plead, that they want out and they want it now. Pastors, in response, assure them that captivity is itself liberation—that slavery is salvation. This will to escape provokes a pair of guiding questions. They are, at their most philosophical: How do openings become enclosures? How do...

... Anthropologies in Brazil, ed. A. Leibing (Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1997). 17. Galvão, A AIDS no Brasil, 106. 18. Biehl, Other Life. See Michel Foucault’s discussion of “pastoral power...

..., aggregated to an anointed leader, a political “pastor” who uses a kind of “pastoral power” to seal the breach of heterogeneity and violently return a polity to homogeneity. 12 In “The Psychological Structure of Fascism,” Bataille interprets the rise of Hitler and 1930s German fascism along...

..., is often thought to have the same shape. In television and radio broadcasts, the pastors of the Igreja Universal invite the audience to place a cup of water near the radio or on the television. Through the instrument of the oração forte — powerful prayer — the water obtains the curative powers...

... will be a “National Intelligence Director,” one who needs no pastoral care because he will be drawn from a special class already endowed with the power and consciousness of the all-seeing sort. It will be the job of this director to carry out one of the commission’s most bizarre recommendations: “To fi nd...

..., spoken about as simplifying urban lives, as easing the availability of news and pleasure. However, for the purpose of potential millennium hysteria, computers, technology, transfers of power, the grids of power that animate...

... Pastoral.” References Adorno Theodor . 2013 . “ On Jazz ”. Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 12 , no. 1 . digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vol12/iss1/4 . Berlant Lauren . 2009 . “ Neither Monstrous nor Pastoral, but Scary and Sweet: Some...

... international. In The self-restraining state: Power and accountability in new democracies , edited by Andreas Schedler et al. Boulder, Colo.:Lynne Rienner. Habermas, Jürgen. 1989 . The structural transformation of the public sphere: An inquiry into bourgeois society . Cambridge: MIT Press. Hodess...

... and film, is characterized by over-­the-­top scenarios that push past the limits of realism. In various ways, exaggerated portrayals of difference and struggle stand in for moral choices that motivate characters and drive dramatic action. Gendered, cultural, class, and raced power dynamics are often...

... and phenomenological marker. A proliferation of conflicting cartographic representations of Jammu and Kashmir parallels the confusions surround- ing its nomenclature, persistently challenging what Christian Jacob has called “the strange power of maps.”7 Although...

..., reminds me of my inbox; clodder , on the other hand, conjures pastoral imagery: a dairymaid on her three-legged stool churning butter or stirring rennet into warm milk to make cheese. I imagine it bears some etymological connection to clabber , a word for coagulation in American English. References...

... become such powerful political resources. Globalization. Neoliberalism. A War on Terror. Each can be good to think with.6 But a recent shift in religious affiliation foregrounds Protestant Christianity as a vital lynchpin between the political...

... in a heteronational domestic life. The article traces injured soldiers’ experiences of being in common with others askance to this constellation of things to come, relating sociality to bare facts of perdurance. References Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Stanford, CA...

... is Vita’s overall precariousness Social death and maintained by intermittent pastoral acts and a distant media-voiced indig- nation. selective life Consider the old man, eyes cast downward, hands shaking...

... produce different kinds of activism, activists, and activ- ist communities, they are both valuable and complementary. These two approaches not only achieve great gains for Mexican immigrants; they provide powerful modalities...