... in transit that seem mobile but are actually really stuck. We might follow MIA in her persistent retort “what’s up with that?” Counting whiteness, “what’s up with that?” Failing drug wars, “what’s up with that?” All of this points to the inadequacy of discerning the circuitry and stakes of capitalist...

...Ashley Dawson; Macarena Gómez-Barris Abstract This article works with a comparative, hemispheric approach to address potential sites, propositions, and sources for postextractive energy transitions. Specifically, the focus is on case studies from within the United States and Latin America...

... Political Transitions COMPARING AFRIKANER AND ISRAELI ATTITUDES This essay focuses on discourses, anxieties, and competing strategies of Heribert Adam white Afrikaners during the political transition in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its sources rely...

...Deborah Mindry The transition to democracy in South Africa promised a new equitable social order that would be responsive to the needs of “the people.” These hopes were very quickly eclipsed by a transition to neoliberalism and by the HIV/AIDS crisis. An examination of the HIV crisis provides...

... and unhomely space; (3) contemporary cinema. These disparate assemblages reimagine the space of television and the medium's role as a form of social communication. The primary focus is the intersection of television and the city in articulating the social body in transition . Focusing on artists, audiences...

.... As a subgenre associated with popular culture, the thriller has rarely been considered a serious player in discussions of literature in the aftermath of atrocity. However, as a space in which the mystifications of conspiracy meet the imperatives of transitional justice, the newly emergent subgenre of the truth...

... infrastructure: the extant infrastructure of fossil fuels poses an obstacle to energy transition, while the act of making infrastructure visible and “following the pipeline” is regarded by incisive petrocritics as necessary but insufficient. What do cooling towers, electric pylons, or railways make happen...

...Tina M. Campt When and where do we “see” the emergence of a black German subject? Where do we encounter a visual instantiation of a black subject who is internal to German society and partakes of a relationship to this society that is neither transplanted, transitional, nor transitory, but instead...

...Stefano Harney Michael Brown's article “Ideology and the Metaphysics of Content” ( ST 8, 1983) reminds us of what was at stake in the transition from ideology critique to cultural studies. Through an ethnomethodological close reading of the opening part of Marx's Capital , Brown teaches us...

... era, captured (again monumentally) in the figure of the Rent Collection Courtyard , a large sculptural diorama unveiled in 1965 and recreated in 1999 by the artist Cai Guoqiang for the Venice Biennale. Back-engineered, this is the story of Chinese transition and economic reform, but read more directly...

... savage social inequality and a bifurcated labor market as individual mental functions whose ideal type is corporate decision making; it also aids the transition to corporate control of education itself. Following this trope from the realm of cultural logic to public policy allows us to watch...

... politics from an issue of technological transition to one of metabolic transformation. On this basis, the article proposes a characterization of direct action against fossil fuels as expressions of metabolic activism: instances of grassroots ecopolitical engagement that aim to break consensus by disrupting...

... mobility came under greater government scrutiny. Pronaf piloted an affective infrastructure that desired to channel border residents’ citizenship and consumption toward the reproduction of the political and economic status quo, eventually setting the stage for neoliberal transition. gflaherty...

...David Theo Goldberg Against the historical background of the transitions between religion and race, of race as the secularization of the religious, this article traces the ways race operates in the conduct of social struggles, wars, and warring in the making and refashioning of racial conception...

...Robin Bernstein Proceeding from Robyn Wiegman's call for a transition from questions of “why” to “how” with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the “scriptive thing,” to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation emerges through everyday physical engagement...

... of neoliberal care provisioning as a point of departure, revisits an analysis of the political economy of care labor vis-à-vis political theorist Nancy Fraser, traces the transitions in the self-care proposals proposed in US self-improvement literatures from the 1960s through the present, and offers a set...

... with their packages in front of hospitals, grocery stores, check-cashing places, day care centers. From Los Angeles to New Haven, the bus is a city of women. While buses in mass transit–oriented cities like New York, Seattle, San...

...) brought home anew the signifi cance of public transit to the landscape and economy of LA. In a city in which it is easy for many to drive by bus stops without registering the presence of the people who wait there, the largely empty stops are harbingers of a shadow city in limbo. Bus and train...

..., reclaiming the energy commons. The article discusses some of the suite of transmedia tools currently being developed by the Public Power Observatory. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 climate change energy democracy public power just transition...

... the colonial violence of IRL and the Western civilizational paradigm of their mediated virtuality. The Mapuche nonbinary body lives as the transitive time space–bound coordinates between this world and the next. What are these arts of land and water defense? And how does trans- Indigenous embodiment...