... imperative of the nation‐state. It then turns to a lesser‐known speculative project that reimagines the borderlands from the perspective of underground tunnels through a multimedia model. The essay draws on the insights of critical environmental media studies to illustrate the affordances of specific media...

...Fady Joudah Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 Fady Joudah, Aphrodite’s Tunnel . Courtesy of the artist Fady Joudah, Aphrodite’s Tunnel. Courtesy of the artist ...

... of Jalisco’s best tequila, and other wares purchased in the tourist district of Nogales, Sonora, on the other side of the border. A gray drainage ditch ends in a dark tunnel just in front of the restaurant. A Border Patrol vehicle pulls up to the taco stand in a routine exhibi- tion of state power...

... cross primeval forests and tunnel through the mountains, telegraph wires which bridge the deserts, and ocean liners which call at the most outlying ports.” 14 Here primitive accumulation works through colonizing infrastructures that configure a spatial order of extraction while consequently...

... Shameem Black To find the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, leave the bright lights of Seoul and zoom through the countryside along the sleek Freedom Highway. Or follow mysterious flyers for a duty-­free store that lure you down a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Whether...

... and work. But reason to attend to the home office would also come from a different direction—the need to ward off the white-collar repetitive strain injury (RSI) or its variant, carpal tunnel syndrome. Dubbed the occupational disease of the nineties, RSI started emerging in telecommuting guides...

... of coal miners in Bihar, India, in 1989 and of oil workers in Kuwait in 1991); and part 6 photographs the building of grand public works (tunnels, dams, canals) (pages 10 – 11 of the Web photo essay include images of women canal workers...

... conflict, as Eyal Weizman has demonstrated in another context by analyzing the vertical segmentation of Israeli and Palestinian space through a preponderance of highways, dirt roads, and tunnels.59 But unlike the Israeli case, the LOC borderland...

... their mobile phones on the subway, with 28 Neves ∙ Beijing en Abyme Figure 3. Sidewalk TVs in the “old” Beijing — a hardware store, top, and a hair salon, bottom. Photos by Graham Bury. Courtesy of the artist and the author advertisements projected onto the tunnel...

... land. Israeli archaeologists are excavating the “City of David,” a site that is presumed to be the residence of King David. A focal point of this excavation is the discovery of a subterranean tunnel running from Silwan to the Old City. In a public campaign to create a new tourist venue, as well...

... Rafael ∙ Targeting Translation approach to languages amounts to their conversion into a standing reserve, as weap- ons for securing the American imperial order under the sign of “national security.” 14. Harry D. Tunnell IV, “Developing a Unit Language Capability for War,” JFQ: Joint Forces...

..., Susan. 1992 . The debt boomerang . London: Pluto Press and the Transnational Institute. Gilroy, Paul. 2000 . Against race . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ____. 2002. Diving into the tunnel: The politics of race between old and new worlds. www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-49-138...

... market making to skateboarding or no-­ limit Texas hold ’em. Teahupo’o does not have the tallest waves, but it may have the “heavi- est” — amazingly intense waves with almost perfect tunnel-­like convexity. Instead of the directional...

... of images depicting liminal spaces such as airports, highways, and subway tunnels on Tracking Transience visualize the surveillance subject’s desubjectification and expulsion from the social sphere. In the visual archive Elahi is never quite situated in space, which might communicate belonging. Instead he...

... the desperate family portrayed in Saverio Costanzo’s 2004 filmPrivate , are every day more confined.31 The tunnels and check- points through which they must pass in order to move from place to place suggest a deep affinity with the experience...

... of belonging. Similarly, the flm frequently uses only found light, so that many of the images, such as in a scene where two migrants travel in the undercarriage of a goods truck through the Channel Tunnel from France to England, are dependent upon the light produced by the infrastructures of modern...

... of the network, is simply bypassed or not registered. Alternatively, things that seem distant may be close if linked by thick connections in a “tunnel effect”, much along the lines of a hyperspeed jump in a science fiction movie. Geographies of topological connection and exclusion thus become more complex...

... It seems to me that my friend Lama Suleiman is right when she says that the Palestinians who can see things, really see things, are the ones looking at the world from the mouth of a tunnel. 24 Only resistance to this hell can make that us that can see anew. 1. For more on the politics of black...

... language — “hearts” of populations — consciously). This entails door-­to-­ door searches, invasion of those civilian spaces usually considered “pri- vate,” and using tunnels created by punching holes through walls between houses for ease and concealment...