...Robert W. Gehl This paper argues that the failure of MySpace and the rise of Facebook in the social networking site market is due in part to the degrees in which either site associates users, technology, and marketers into a successful “real software abstraction.” Real software abstraction...

... and ontology, but also a crucial matter of power. In order for a bin Laden tape to have its “effects” in politics, action, and debate, it need not be real or validated; it must simply be the subject of belief. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Enemy Voice Jonathan Sterne On 5 February 2006...

... community who subvert the clichéd image of that community as a conservative force in US politics and culture. Rereading Muñoz’s writings on Zamora of The Real World , season 3, and recounting how Zamora shared out the unsharable experience of his death, the essay discusses three engagements with Zamora’s...

... continue to discuss the term) is an institutional formation, which occasionally and hubristically imagines its reach in other areas, both touching and being touched by “the real.” Thinking with and through the work of José Esteban Muñoz, whose loss has created a rupture in our utopian impulses, this essay...

...Robert Meister The article develops political implications of the late Randy Martin’s idea of “derivative sociality” as the real subsumption of human life under the option form. The option form, beginning with the hedge, allows realized surplus value to be preserved (locked in) and eventually...

... of, queer identity. Queer minstrels are compellingly slippery subjects because they both ruin and rely upon the criteria of the “fake” and the “real,” and in the process their performances reveal malingering ontological and epistemological commitments from queer counterpublics, drive wedges between...

..., semiotics, social media, computation, racism, weaponry, and other machines of war and capital are here rendered as part of the micrological murmurations of thought, sensibility, and communication, even as they macrologically reform geopolitical terrains both real and imagined. Thought, feeling, knowledge...

... collabora- tions. This visual document stands in not only for the process itself but also for the lived experiences of the youth represented. Thus the product acquires value as an object that captures the realness of youth’s experi...

... were soon to see it realized in a flood of anthrax mailings, five of them real and tens of thousands of them hoaxes. Conveyed on the waves of hysteria over anthrax, the impact of the terrorists’ incursion spread to the far corners of the country—the West Coast, the South, the rural, the suburban...

... of the mainstream perceptions of international politics. This concept of global politics rests on an exclusion of the mimetic from its thematic concerns, with an emphasis instead on the “real.” The history of international relations...

... (and are) real social, historical, and geographical entities. Though phantasmically conjured and produced, orientalism and the Orient are institutions that have structured and affected — and continue to structure and affect — actual societies...

... becomes a frightening mystery, so that the subject is constantly caught in an unan- swerable question: What does the Other want from me?8 The jouissance of the Other then has the special quality of being both real and mythical...

... Figure 6. Ideals of whiteness: Cheerleader family is faced with tears, an overflow of affect that is met with bafflement, without real understanding. Freud maintains in “Mourning and Melancholia...

... “Piercing the Veil of the Real” Tagore’s formulation of his notions about the moment of epiphany in the essay “Sahitye Aitihasikata” could have been said to have been a refor- mulation, in another context, of his phrase “piercing the veil of the real,” discussed by Dipesh Chakrabarty alongside a late...

... 2002. Lentz, Philip. 2002 . “Business Split on Fighting Mike; Real Estate Opposes Property Tax Hike, but Others Move to Back Mayor's Plan,” Crain's New York Business , 18 November 2002, 1 . Martin, Randy. 2002 . Financialization of Everyday Life . Philadelphia: Temple University Press...

..., historicization, and critique really do become outmoded in light of current cultural realities? It’s paradoxical, because after all, let’s say you want to think very crudely of art as somehow reflecting the real. Okay. And let’s say that the real has become ahistorical, has been reduced to the present, has...

... called “the space of appearance,” a material site where fictional characters and real-world readers assemble across differences to collaborate in producing a shared ethical world, the former deploying superhuman abilities, the latter the human capacity for imagination. 5 In this article, I...

... security and the fantasies of China or other foreign countries as real or imagined threats. The memorabilia testify not just to the world wars but also to the more extended agenda of national security through military interventions during the Cold War. We have been told that the Cold War ended in 1989...

... spend Mother's Day on the road at Komen Race for the Cure events . Press release, 3 May. ____. 1999b . NFL sponsors race for the cure . Press release, 19 April. ____. 1999c . Real Men Wear Pink: NFL encourages women and men to join the fight against breast cancer . Press release,10 October...

... for the radical and elitist depredations of the Right. And yet, to take the bait and defend the indefensible corporate academy would be in itself a form of negligence. Caught somewhere between the violent deskilling and real subsumption of intellectual labor, on the one hand, and generational transition...