...Mandana E. Limbert This article examines the ruins of the former structures of rule in a medium-sized town in the Sultanate of Oman. It explores how people in Bahla relate to and perceive the ruins of forts, walls, and neighborhoods that had helped maintain order in the previous era...

... Philippine Theater, a “drag” production marketed to tourist audiences as “the largest transvestite show in Asia.” The paper suggests that the Film Center can be read as a modern ruin: a spectral environment that elicits a lost sense of optimism and globalism, while inducing feelings of terror and dread...

...Patrick Deer The embrace of the city in ruins was a familiar rallying cry of punk music. From Public Image Limited’s evocation of an urban subject murdered in the countryside while “the cassette played poptones,” to the Clash’s raucous calls for “a riot of our own,” to dub-influenced declarations...

... in the immanent transvaluation of the values we generate together inside and in spite of the marketizing university. This is a parable, then, to think with what is still a collective work to be done: the collective work of living, thinking, and doing otherwise in the academic ruins. Echoes of these questions...

... 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...

...Figure 2: The cast used to create the mesh of the underground in A Practice in Excavating also represents a maimed body, signaling how the violence of current border practices transforms the borderlands into spaces of ruin. ...

... clamber up higgledy-piggledy ruins. On the ground, the thingness of forms battered down as far as thought might latch onto the tiniest button, tender bell of flesh. Desire strapped lest it stray...

... finality, to acknowledge death and loss. Alongside Said’s description of Palestinian structures (and implicitly Palestinian selves) as potential ruins, we might set Marx’s injunction in the Eighteenth Brumaire 112 Ana Dopico...

... of violence are visualized as militarized spaces of a present-future ruin. The video focuses on Hong Kong human rights movements, death in the streets against the constant threat of the nuclear option. Toward the end of a thirty-minute film, we see bodies in motion amid hellish worlds and then a live...

... few real jobs, provides little in the way of housing, but nevertheless invests itself in a community with the promise of attracting businesses and art audiences and recasting forms of cultural expression in ruined spaces. Its institutional attachments are perhaps what make it most problematic...

... infrastructural ruin, 3 national economic and geopolitical failure, 4 the legal and scientific sanctioning of state torture and murder, 5 unprecedented displacements of those seeking refuge from war, poverty, and the drying up or flooding out of life possibilities, 6 even the end of the hospitality...

... . Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall , 1962 . Readings Bill . The University in Ruins . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University , 1999 . Reagle Joseph Michael . Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2019 . Sanchez Claudio...

...” AbdouMaliq Simone 13 “City of Whores”: Nationalism, Development, and Global Garment Workers in Sri Lanka  •  Sandya Hewamanne 35 Urban Modernity on the Periphery: A New Middle Class Reinvents the Palestinian City  •  Lisa Taraki 61 In the Ruins of Bahla: Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling...

...) to be resurrected.” 29 In other words, the past can never be experienced as past, but by that very same token, it dominates the present—as that which operationally and retroactively exist as resurrected value. Manufactured landscapes—along with the “ruin porn” photography that so fascinates the contemporary...

... the downsized new that nestles “inside the ruin of the old”—that is as much about the future as the past. The story invites comparison with the prospects of fossil infrastructure, particularly when we consider the infrastructural role of the church in medieval and early modern Europe as the organizing center...

..., the skateboarder, all those seeking volatility and working a spread, went to the edge of the land or to the emptied pools in foreclosed houses to make their wagers. These energies in pursuit of derivative speculation are driven by a desire to extract some pleasure, some promise, some community from the ruins...

... 23 By forging from the inadequacy of meal rations, the absence of justice (insaaf) in the legal system, the nonrecognition of customary practices (such as religious mar- the ruins of riages), and the general collapse of morality that informs any viable social...

.... The symbol of the “new” Israel created in 1948 on the ruins of Palestinian society, by contrast, is a figure of exteriority: the prickly pear cactus. As a way of distinguishing themselves from the weak, victimized people they imag...

... argument from the turn of the prior century) or that—their ennobling purpose lost—they lie in ruins. People’s professions could take out franchises from the popular science movement. Sorting out the politics we can live by—one informed by what knowledge is for, how it affiliates, where it applies, what...