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...Kimberly Bain Abstract This article turns to the minor Black matter of soil to map a provisional theory of Black alchemy. Black alchemy names an erotic and ethical orientation toward the Dead and dead matter. Sifting the metonymic, metaphysical, and material properties between (Black fleshly...

.... It is said to hold out the promise not so much of establishing a new presence in eretz yisrael but, rather, of returning the Jewish nation to its “mother soil.” In Buber’s teleological narrative, settling Palestine was about “completing the rebirth of the Jewish people.” 19 It would, as he and others...

... and technically supported a reforestation project. Besides bushfires, what really boosted this severe socioecological transformation was the need to prevent soil erosion and the growing of the favela in landslide-prone area. 2 Soil consumption and informal urbanization of any available space reached their peak...

... of the flora of Syria and Palestine corresponds with its central situation and diversity of soil, climate, and surface, and the extreme inequality of the meteorological conditions of its different though not distant regions. It will not escape the thoughtful observer of these facts, that the microcosm selected...

... communities retaining their original rights as undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed by irresistible power.” 5 While the Court recognized that Indigenous nations were now presumed to be under the protection of the United States, it also opined...

... you cast into the center of Roman soil that made you a Roman. We think of the gesture of throwing a handful of earth as a ritual of funerals. The Umbilicus gives us another way of thinking about this gesture, understanding it as a way of saying, I live here now. I belong. The Umbilicus, in short...

... of fascism in such lists. This is peculiar, given the overt connections between blood and soil, as well as key distinctions between rural and urban populations, found in most manifestations of fascism, old and new. As Pete Simi and Robert Futrell have argued, one of the major factors that has enabled fascist...

..., familiar to us today through sites such as Guantánamo Bay.2 Central to my artistic concept is a legally credible contractual structure created with the input of a named lawyer, 3 rather than a mere “illustration” of the law created by an artist. As such, the piece can only be exhibited on US soil...

... gives rise to political wonder, that we encounter the Chinese Rent Collection Courtyard. Here our story comes full circle, back to the soil and back to the Chinese subject. Mud, not iron and glass, would con- tour this monumental work. Telluric elements that the Eiffel Tower had fashioned...

... of the ambiguity regarding Guantánamo’s meaningful complex of locations, upon arriving on the base Celia made her way to the fence marking the border between the American territory of the base and Cuban territory proper, reached her hand through the fence, grabbed a fistful of Cuban soil, and deposited...

... the rhizomatic character of derivative fascisms brings up the question of what kind of soil incubates and nourishes such growth — it is soil prepared by financialization's decomposition and recomposition of society. In light of what Martin called a “derivative sociality,” Steyerl's notion of derivative...

..., their droppings literally soil the enlightened vestiges of its decor, performing what after Nietzsche we might call a bat revolt in values, effectively cultivating a dramatically different perspective of appraisal of the library itself, transvaluating its values, and regularly forcing librarians and those...

.... The earth our green & fragrant home. Yes, home we like to say, mindful of what has brutalised our soil and hurt the sheen of wind and rain. And to argue as some do that fear incites the sublime gets us precisely nowhere...

... for homogeneity.” This can be avoided if access to political decisions is institutionalized for all categories of person, however different (Young 1990, 117–19, 126). In any event, citizenship is no longer easily based on soil or blood...

... concerns the United States, it also suggests that the corruption complex of containment, preemption, and following the trail purgation is not confined to national soil. Jane Marcus-Delgado traces the movement between the concern of business leaders...

... the achievements of the national culture. Perhaps the best example in the anthology of the synecdochic chain is the long excerpt from Dar- wish’s “Song of the Land,” a literary part that most explicitly represents the whole of the Palestinian nation, notably in the following line: “I name the soil I call...

... In Portbou, however, the two plants appear to mingle quite freely and patiently, partak- ing of the same soil and often growing out of the same rock. At the other end of the Mediterranean from the conflict in Israel/Palestine, both keep watch over the memorial to the man who refused to become...

... to the field. For me there was a very specific moment — not in 2007–8 but in 2001, when the US land borders were closed and key voices within the corporate and state sectors declared a crisis. Their crisis was not about the attacks on US soil or the loss of life or sovereignty or any of that stuff...