...Michael D. Rubenstein This essay argues that the public utility, particularly electricity supply, signifies powerfully as a form of social recognition, a basic human right, and a model of civic inclusion and citizenship in the modern and postcolonial Bildungsroman . James Joyce's A Portrait...

... distribution. This disability politic, which the author terms crip-of-color critique , foregrounds the utility of disability studies for feminist-of-color theories of gendered and sexual state regulation and ushers racialized reproduction and state violence to the forefront of disability analysis. 19...

... the mobilization of presence and absence has been crucial to Israel’s colonization of Jerusalem and how they have been utilized in the service of the state’s drive for exclusive control over this symbolically potent city. This is done, principally, through a reading of the Palestinian house in Jerusalem in which...

... construction of the indigenous artist as a clever or knowable other. As a carpenter who fixes, joins together, and must confront people and things, Durham forces himself to utilize his own ambivalence about representation in the service of liberation. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Jimmie Durham...

... Epistemology of the Closet —toward the consideration of affective and sociological registers as replacements or correctives, the practice of queer minstrelsy presses us to reconsider the utility of epistemological orientations anew. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 “Why Be Something That You’re...

... of what I argue is punk’s puro pedo temporality. Puro pedo or the general pedo is a Spanish Tex-Mex vernacular term that has a range of meanings, translations, and utility. In general, puro pedo is understood to mean talk with no action, bullshit, “no worries,” or other significations of insouciance. Puro...

...Laleh Khalili This essay examines the instrumentalization of emotions and affect—especially of happiness—in evaluating the outcome of counterinsurgencies. Traditionally, metrics and statistics have been utilized as the main means of measuring the achievement of military goals. However, given...

... between European cosmopolitanism and the Greek archaic, marginalizes. I am interested in the ethnography of the every day that lacks the securities, facilities, and utilities of a homogenizing and synchronizing context. In the agonistic interplay between the macrological and the everyday, time and space...

... he raises in his television criticism (broadly speaking, questions of psychosocial response, of writing for and about the culture industries, and of ideological analysis) into the current moment, testing the utility of his procedures and insights in light of convergence culture, the proliferation...

... of narrative, taking seriously a literary studies approach to utilities where “ fiction means much more than simply a story that is not true.” 10 Centered on Ellison's Invisible Man and its opening representation of electricity theft, this essay analyzes a constellation of US electrifictions focused...

.... Holmes, “The Cost of Utilities.” 37. Bullard, “Environmental Justice,” 151 – 71 . 36. Lennon, “Decolonizing Energy,” 24 . 35. Yaeger, “Editor's Column,” 309 . 34. Pérez-Medina and Yeampierre, “The People's Power.” 33. Quoted in Pérez-Medina and Yeampierre...

... negative anatomo-­politics. Still, although we could trace the potential “utility” of that violence, what interests me is looking more closely at an extra amount that surpasses any possible “utility.” It is a “remainder” that cannot be explained based on the “reasons” for violence...

... Trans DC,” “Formal Trans DC,” and “Informal Trans DC.” Derek’s map features many of the organizations other participants included on their own maps ( fig. 1 ). Among the virtual elements, he includes organizations that utilize e-mail correspondence and websites as their primary vector of communication...

... of la parada did influenced their daily experiences in the utilization of this “found space.”7 By creating alternative purposes for the corner, these men challenged its not offer much legitimate uses and constructed...

... 2008 Social Te x t   97 Killing Time  •  Michael Ralph 1 Light Reading: Public Utility, Urban Fiction, and Human Rights Michael D. Rubenstein 31 Strange Bedfellows: Black Feminism and Antipornography Feminism  •  Jennifer C. Nash 51 “Word?” [photograph]  •  Alexis...

... in Crown actions against its debtors, could only be utilized by a plaintiff pretending to be a debtor to the Crown. The Court would have to resort to the fiction that the injury or damage inflicted on the plaintiff by the defendant had incapacitated...

... musical structure as well as its era (a point expanded upon later). The anxious question about protest music’s demise finds a richer answer when phrased in terms of sound, which is utilized in service of political projects in ways that escape the parameters of any one genre. Phrased this way, the question...

... that destabilizes the commodity attributes of property and utility and their correlated patterns of subjectivity and association. It posits instead an excessive materiality in a communism of organic and inorganic process. I would make...

... change, and post–September 11 geopolitical uncertainty, the hip-hop mogul’s effi- cacy as a symbol for a bygone golden age persists. Rather than utilize the hip-hop mogul as a point of departure for an empirical investigation...

... without minimizing its violence? How might one acknowledge the only ever emergent and largely discredited work of sexology without amounting to an apologia for its profound utility as an instrument of discipline and oppression? Historically, sexology's low burden of proof has been in direct proportion...