...Sura P. Rath Duke University Press 2006 “What Would Said Say?” Reflections on Tr adition, Imperi alism, and Globalism Lately there has been much loose talk about tradition. Whether the rise Sura P. Rath...

... the spool is the child’s response to the temporary departure of his mother; Freud says that in this way the child reexperiences and gains a sense of mastery over his mother’s absence. Yet the psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott tells us that at a certain point in child development the absence of the mother...

... learning places of theaters and clubs as much as classrooms and conferences, and following Jean-Luc Nancy—as does Muñoz—to understand “world” here as referring to that which “is said in every saying,” this essay considers how Muñoz’s aesthetic theory encourages promiscuity among fields of knowledge. ©...

...Vicente L. Rafael This essay inquires into the relationship between translation and empire in the United States. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the Americanization, which is to say, translation of English from an imperial...

... masculinity as the dominant logic of privilege and to identify affect as the appropriate idiom for critiquing normative masculinity. In the spirit of this alternative genealogical approach, I will begin by unpacking what it means to say that emo functions as a periphery, and then turn to three essentially emo...

... marginal part and decorative border. To do so means to surrender the accolade of theorist for stylist, to harbor the hard work of listening from scholarly convention. To try and tell freestyle's story is to say a great deal about a moment when large numbers of young women found themselves on the inside...

... of the structures of settler colonialism.” What would it mean for a settler speaker of a land acknowledgment to say, “I am a visitor, and I hope to become a proper guest”? Two empirical examples are presented: the University of California, Los Angeles, where an acknowledgment was crafted in 2018; and the University...

... affective/spatial norms of mental health treatment: confinement, rationality, repression, and an individualizing model of madness. As part of unfolding this model for a trans-mad aesthetic, the article asserts that the link between transgender and madness (as categories) is not merely one of addition—say...

... test, law cannot and does not distinguish religion from nonreligion; individual believers can and do. Instead, courts trust a person’s or group’s self-reporting—that they sincerely believe what they say they believe—and adjudicate from that point forward. As a criterion, sincerity invokes a host...

.... And then a woman butts into your conversation about public schools to say that she got such a good public school education in New York in the seventies; she doesn’t know what changed; she came in as an immigrant not speaking any English but the immigrants today don’t want to be Americans; they just want to stick...

... . Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Baby rape “one of the most shocking” says judge. 2002. 5 June. www.theage.com.au/breaking/2002/06/05/FFXMIDZR22D.html . Barbano, Andrew. Baby rape: Coming soon to a casino near you. www.nevadalabor.com/barbwire/barb97/barb11-30-97.html . Bengu, Charity. 2001a . Keeping...

... where we started, with prepositions. We came to the writing of this collective issue with nothing more than a title, a provisional one at that, and one we ultimately chose to set aside: “After Globalism.” After is a temporal preposition; we might, equally, have chosen a spatial one, say, “ Beyond...

... distinguished postmodernity as a historical period from postmodernism as a style. I should say that I don’t care what people call these things. It seems to me that everybody recognizes some kind of postmodern break, whatever name they give it, that takes place around 1980 or so, in the Reagan/Thatcher era...

... in the mall when you saved him,” she says, “I saw Mother Theresa in your good deed. Today, when you caught this thief, I saw Netaji in your speed.”7 He beams proudly, speaks magnanimously. And then, as she looks admiringly at him, you can...

.... But right now many of us are intensely frustrated with exposure. We have more access to various versions of “the public” than ever before, and information circulates more easily than it did when, say, the Black Panther Party covered police violence in a newspaper they wrote and produced themselves or when...

... cuts us off from flows of new purchases, once it passes a certain point. It slows our consumption cycles, and when it comes to the clutter of, say, all the streaming services to which the average bourgeois person subscribes, it slows the circulation of capital among the firms that buy and sell our...

... can, handed over from a Jenner to a cop and solving all problems of social unrest in a joyful reconciliation of opposites. But like a drug we’ve taken too much of and no matter how we parse the problem, we say with Gil Scott-Heron, “It might be a good idea if I never, never went home again.” 1...

... enunciations, to say things that cannot be said in the major language. Deleuze and Guattari write of Kafka, a Jew in Czechoslovakia, forging a minor literature within German. Welsh’s use of Scots dialect within the major language of English...

... understanding and quicken communication. It is a mighty exercise in presence and in awareness to refrain from saying something that carries or might promote prejudice, for example, “I saw a black man . . . ” to privilege instead neutral descriptors like “I saw a person wearing purple pants . . . ” This rewiring...

... since it represents the bankruptcy of an ideal and the pathetic illustration of the failure of a whole generation — I want to add a certain number of considerations related to my position as a man of color. Let us say it straight out: in light of events (and reflection on the shameful...