...Renyi Hong Abstract This article examines the early telecommuting discourse of the 1980s and 1990s, understanding it as a pedagogical context for white plasticity, an ecological project in which racial privilege is protected through the transformation of homes and inhabitants. Rationalized...

... economy through multiple forms of human fungibility. Reading this intervention alongside and against her deployment of neural plasticity, the author reconsiders the relationship between race, gender, and class in the field of Wynter studies and argues for recentering the pieza framework in struggles...

..., thyroid, thalamus, etc.) into conversation with trans* new materialist science studies around their shared investment in plasticity. In so doing, it contributes to the burgeoning inquiry into transsex, tranimal, and transspecies plasticity— which the author terms, jointly, trans* plasticity —while...

... interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of domestic Black Muslims. Exploring how fantasies of the plastic reorientation of prisoners’ bodies and minds...

...Sonali Thakkar; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author...

...Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson In this special issue, the contributors argue that plasticity, the capacity of living systems to generate and take on new forms, is a central axis of biopolitical governance. While plasticity has a specific meaning in the life...

... has been manufactured by the film’s plastic surgeon to cover the character upon whom he has also forced a sex change. The transgenic skin is also produced extratextually, by way of a digital effect that implicates cinema’s analog-to-digital transformation. Both of these technological transformations...

... medical rationality. For the diagnostic penetration of the medical spectator is meant to be a prelude to prescription and cure. The medical optic is an anticipatory form of plastic surgery that has altered Gioconda’s historical identity. The convergence...

... the world differently.7 50 Vogel · Touching Ecstasy Figure 2. Dave McKenzie, Fear and Trembling (2009), conveyer, hanger with text, plastic, timer, remote control, 73" H × 73" W × 30" D. Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; photo credit: Gene Ogami The first...

... a small detail in the narrative, this crucial piece of information locates Lorde within a historical shift in American manufacturing as civilian industrial power began to convert into military-industrial power. Advances in radio and radar, which also used synthetic plastics in their construction, enabled...

... social and natural life themselves. 42 Tela Bordada and its companion video thus bring into focus not the corpse, which would repeat the imperative structure of rights frameworks in which the human is overrepresented by Man, but rather blood and water, text and textile, an intense plasticity...

... of Plasticity.” 7. On the idea of the contact zone, see Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone.” 8. There is an extensive and growing body of work in each of these areas. For a few exemplary works, see Chiang, After Eunuchs ; Mitra, Indian Sex Life ; Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy ; Işıklar...

...; the song flirts with but ultimately declines the tropism toward true love otherwise pervasive in pop. The music video for the song embellishes this artificiality further, turning markers of luxury named by the lyrics into bubblegum pink props: a windowless plastic airplane, a pool with pink water...

... vomiting into a plastic grocery bag. You hop up without indicating what you’re doing to your housemate. Someone rushes to fill your seat, then abruptly hops up himself. The vomiting guy looks terrible. Now when you breathe, the sweet odor of the vomit is there. And you rush through the drunk Saturday...

... that are less than utopic. What imaginations present the planetary future, or what theorists from the UK green movement term dark optimism ? 1 Is there no return from the nuclear weaponization of Earth? Does the plastic ocean ever expel or recover? Are dispossession and capitalism inevitable finish lines...

... of their home I found two plastic boxes — a pink one and a blue one. I opened the blue box and it was full of tiny toy soldiers that exploded out into the air around me becoming a cloud of flies that took on the shape of a black gravestone — “We...

..., Winter 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Duke University Press. While the ples, plastic sheeting, and duct tape for the purposes of sealing them- selves in their homes and protecting against a biochemical weapons attack. biochemical While the biochemical attack has yet...

... that resonated with pop- ular cultural expectations concerning the plasticity of children exposed to turbulent environments in their earliest years. In order to explore how these tropes of resilient (overseas) and toxic...

... young couples making picnic on wild grass nor children striking fists against plastic balls, nor older ones sniffing glue. You set your paintings up, each echoing the other, the whole entitled Riposte. Where the face...