...Greg L. Childs This article explores the problem of torture and secrecy in the archives of conspiracies, seditions, and black resistance movements in the colonial Americas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the example of the Tailors' Conspiracy, a seditious movement...

...Neel Ahuja This article offers a critique of the recently declassified U.S. Department of Justice memorandum that authorized the CIA to torture the suspected al-Qa'idah member Abu Zubaydah by placing him in a confinement box with an insect. The CIA claims that this form of coercive interrogation...

... the detention and torture of a sex worker; (2) prescriptions of minoritarian disaffection and disposability advanced by three prominent Sri Lankan “liberal-left” public intellectuals in support of the state’s concluding 2009 assault on Tamils in “no-fire zones” and detention camps. Majoritarian right...

... interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of domestic Black Muslims. Exploring how fantasies of the plastic reorientation of prisoners’ bodies and minds...

...Figure 2. “Torture—Southern Style,” from Spivak, Hard Times. ...

... Weil, “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force” Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man. — Anthony Swofford, Jarhead The scandal of torture in the war on terror has diminished noticeably since it first erupted...

..., pleasures, tactility, rhythms, echoes, textures, deaths, morbidity, torture, pain, sensation, and punishment, our necropolitical present-future deems it imperative to rearticulate what queer theory and studies of sexuality have to say about the metatheories...

.... The all-too-obvious example of the world’s newest democracy, Iraq, would seem to beg the question very forcefully. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib may conceal torture rather than display it for public affirmation of the sovereign’s power, but they nevertheless suggest that standard inter- pretations...

... or customs of war (torture, rape) and seven counts of crimes against humanity (torture, rape) was in fact a puny conclusion to the war in Bos- nia where thousands of women were raped during the process of ethnic cleansing.2 Rape is still being committed with impunity...

... constitution of gender, desire, and even sensuality and materiality more generally. Like the bodies of women, the body of the minority man is reduced simply to a signpost of the “other” and tortured. I examine how the minority...

... trained to know that the Object could not touch but because the touch was an embrace of a being you did not yet know that you were. There were reverberations of the touch, limitless affects that no science could trace. There was pain, for instance, in recognizing that the tortured...

... Really, data visualization über alles , no? The mythic overlay dissolves to blood. So, the Post-its: cameras conditioning labor. Torture paintings — which makes someone think of a convo around representation and, say, the Dana Schutz scandal at the Whitney versus sixties / civil rights struggles...

... perpetrators, in the guise of full disclosure, to find new ways to torture their previous victims. It serves as a space where guilt and shame often affect the injured more than they do the perpetrators. Challenging the therapeutic...

.... privilege and multiculturalism becomes a marker of legitimate privilege and universal- ity, monoculturalism becomes a category of stigma that justifies torture. universality, We might say that in Guantánamo, Arab and Muslim detainees are given copies...

... protections. Where British or American citizens were asked to sacrifice in the name of a Sec- ond World War against fascism that promised postwar reconstruction or prosperity, the current conjuncture promises the rewards and the terrors preemptively. Even torture, that most atavistic, corrupting...

... deity whose sovereignty and law is neither embodied nor dramaturgical. Titus’s violence is self-defeating by enacting the limits of the pagan worldview on deity and sovereignty. This self-wounding violence returns with his torture...

... which scholarly inquiry organizes its objects, political interventions such as “human rights” stake their claims, and capi- talist endeavors maneuver resources and marshal profit. From contempo- rary instances of torture...

... Douglass, an American Slave in which the narrator describes the “terrible spectacle” of the torture of his Aunt Hester by the overseer, Mr. Plumber; and the work of folklorist Roger Abrahams on the form and function of “corn shucking” as slave performance...

... by undoing gender in the service of the race/gender/sex dominant social order. I, like other Black women intimidated, tortured, and even killed by police terror, was undone and redone that day in São Paulo at the interstices between my two worlds: identified as a Black woman out of place and disavowed...