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.... If enslavement was defined by this spatial regime of suffocation, the early slave trade extended the grounds for racialization through extensive networks of credit and debt. This financial system established the parameters of enslavement and freedom, bridging shipboard and terrestrial social relations. Early...

... headline news in June when George Floyd was murdered by being cruelly denied his own breath, even while he made it audibly clear, in his dying last words directed at his active suffocator, that he couldn't breathe. His “I can't breathe” at once reasonably and eerily echoed the words Eric Garner gasped six...

...- belly of psychic dysfunction and suffocated privilege, the suburban aes- thetic has only recently begun to account for a new wave of immigrants, queers, people of color, and working-class families (many of whom were displaced...

... to teach the rest of the world life, sir.” Belcourt and Ziadah mark the constricting suffocation of the kind of care offered within imperial capitalism, betraying the silences demanded of their always already death and misery and the limited futility of being cared about in the anticipation...

... cans set on fire, the sharp blasts of Molotov cocktails, and the helicopter engines hovering above. The air, suffocating with smoke and smelling of menace, was filled at once with fear and wild joy. It was laced with an undercurrent of terrible danger...

... out of a proliferation of forms. The novel begins at a limit case of human intentionality. Archie Jones has parked his car in the northwest of London and made all the necessary preparations to suffocate himself inside. This “decided-upon suicide,” we are told, was a New Year’s resolution...

... are today clearer than ever, have long mobilized security and safety to suffocate revolutionary potential. How do we balance the longing for safety and security with our understanding of how these ideas strip, contain, and suffocate individuals and collectives? To me, coming back to teach in the United...

... therefore ends up, most frequently, creating imaginaries of precarity that revolve around the gap or the divide between classes (included/excluded), zones (favela/city), and subjectivities and communities (criminal/worker, citizen). Such imaginaries suffocate the potential rearrangements of bodies...

... around the assertion of the players’ innocence. Indeed, the blogosphere was so successful in positioning itself as both supplement to and watchdog of the local and national media that over time its suffocating reduction of all...

... and reconsecrate it never mate- rialized; the Nataraja ended up in the government-maintained Icon Center playing an active at Tiruvarur, safe from art thieves, but unworshipped, and “in danger of suffocation and heatstroke6 part in it. It is of course...

... such an archive, how to reclaim from its suffocating grip a space for fugitivity, love, and desire. New studies of digital cultures arise in increasingly rapid cycles. Platform studies, media archaeology, infrastructure studies, and more recently supply chain studies are aimed at unpacking the consequences...

..., to keep safe we must forgo all others. We risk death otherwise. But the thinning air is slowly suffocating. It is spelling a slow extinction. Even if it were these thin prophylactic relations to one another that got us here in the first place. Were we not already embroiled in no-contact exchanges...

... perverted George's message into entertainment and spectacle in the suffocating safety of their retreat. In contrast, most of the black people, and a small but growing number of whites—especially white prisoners—were not entertained by Soledad Brother ; but were propelled by it.” 51 Jackson's writing...

... magnetism and electricity,” “immutable laws of progression and development” to individuals on Earth. Refusing to submit to the “suffocating skepticism” of mere objectivity, Davis called for a “science of spiritual intercourse.” Like Tylor’s notion of culture, Davis affirmed the existence...

... suffocation of Third Cinema practice but also as a generic representation of individuated law and freedom at the fraying margins of state sovereignty; the western, as kin to the larger crime genre that Bamako so complexly transforms, signals the suicidal disorder and internecine violence that Africans...

... is suffocating. While I ponder the Vedas, the invention of the number zero, and what it means to talk about a return to a Vedic science and mathematics, I hear a big explosion in the corner of my eye. And the big mushroom cloud comes clearly into focus...

... to farm their land, except during limited times when the Israeli military allows passage. As a result, Qalqilya is suffocating as most industry has come to a halt. While it would be bad enough for Qalqilya to be surrounded on all sides by the wall, we also witnessed various Israeli-­administered...

... political modernity that we cannot refuse, but as an engulfment into the suffocating embrace of imperial and gendered racial violence? For the literal debt, this politics calls on us to refuse the debt by harnessing the power of a collective default against the bullying threat of US debt imperialism...

... in spaces that were predominantly white and predominantly male, within an academic discipline shaped by settler colonialism and white supremacy: all threatened to suffocate when we had come intending to create. We began this project as performance and play—theorizing with music that played aloud as we spoke...

... with the police. It ends when Sandro unexpectedly decides to leave the bus with a young girl as hostage. A policeman tries to shoot him but misses and hits the girl instead. Sandro is taken into custody by the policemen, stuffed in a car, and then suffocated to death on the way to the police station. Media...