...Elmer M. Blistein Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 THE DRIVE FOR RESPECTABILITY: AN ASPECT OF THE COMIC CHARACTER Elmer M. Blistein AT THE CONCLUSION of Plato s Symposium, that convivial, intellectual treatise on love, the convivial finally overcomes the intellectual because, we...

...Theodore Ropp Drive . By Codman Colonel Charles R. . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1957 . Pp. xxiv , 335 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 161 Century of Revolution in domestic affairs was here to stay and that it should be forwarded...

... toward reconsideration of the death drive, not just how it is projected on gay men or directed at them but also how it is uniquely embodied and celebrated by them. The title of Lee Edelman's book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive about sums it up, but Leo Bersani's work in Intimacies and Tim...

...Matthew Engelke Studies on religion in philosophy and the human sciences have been focusing increasingly on the relationship between religion and media. In much of this work, a key concern has been to understand what constitutes mediation and, concomitantly, the lure of immediacy that drives some...

...Aida Hussen This essay explores the psychic dimensions of post-civil rights black representation. I ask, what kinds of desire and identification, what vision of history and futurity, and what lost objects and forms of grief, drive nationalist approaches to black literature? In turn, what affective...

... on the political technologies that drive policy protocols of “integration” and “social diversity” and arrange the parameters of differential inclusion within which the business of privatization of real estate and social housing unfolds. It also asks how cultural, political, and social contestations develop...

... services, driving down standards and prices, and normalizing risky behaviors. The article posits that these changes in the sex industry are symptomatic and reflective of wider shifts in labor-capital relations and technology and therefore argues that bringing research on platform work and sex work...

..., which creates a new dynamic that needs to be captured to ensure an alternative way to perform and enable citizenship. What we refer to as “platform urbanization” is a planetary phenomenon that needs to be investigated as a new driving force in the transformation of the urban condition and in terms...

... with colonial ties such as Latin America and the global South. Technologists and those who can pay them are largely driving these discourses and decisions forward, while regulators and regular citizens struggle to catch up. If the buzz around blockchain opens the power to dream new techno-economic futures, who...

... never been recognized or funded as a public good. As the “age of mobility” beckons, with autonomous driving as its technological centerpiece, the authors call for the social liberation of the automobile. From the outset, the automobile has traded on the romance of the open road, but it has too long...

... in supermax confinement, driving unprecedented and sustained media and legal attention to the use of supermaxes, across the United States and internationally, and inspiring another larger (thirty thousand prisoners participated at the peak) and longer (sixty days) hunger strike in 2013. © 2014 Duke...

...Willis Jenkins The discipline of religious studies often misses how climate change drives shifts across its domains of interpretation by treating it as a special object. This essay depicts how cultural stress from anthropogenic changes in planetary systems may be illuminated through what cultures...

... of appropriation in order to turn the knowledge and creativity of these practices into a driving force for its own development. Important aspects of this dynamic are illustrated through two examples: the refinement of control mechanisms of the European visa regime and the repeated tightening of Germany’s asylum...

... and driving force of this process. References Alquati Romano . 1993 . Per fare conricerca (Doing Co-research) . Padova : Calusca edizioni . Alquati Romano . 1994 . Camminando per realizzare un sogno commune (Walking to Realize a Common Dream) . Torino : Velleità alternative...

... of significant differences between homicide and femicide, black women suffer from a spectacular violent death deficit. What can drive concern toward these more private deaths? © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 death femicide lynching References African American Policy Forum . 2015...

... on a cattle drive, Andy Adams once remarked somewhat scornfully, is like a fifth wheel on a four-wheel wagon. The focus of this homely comparison was Emerson Hough s North of 36, in which the heroine, Tessie Lockhart, accompanies her own herd to market, and is a complaint by an author who knew and portrayed...

..., collective life, over and against the abyss of sex as the site of drives not predetermined by any fixed goal or end, as the site, therefore, where the subject of social regulation might come undone and with it the seeming consistency of the social order itself. Thus to situate queer theory “after sex...

... the hydraulic ram rather rigor­ ously. Consumption, the mere ward of social science, has begun to use the siphon, albeit somewhat silently. Industrial equilibration, synchronization, and' stabilization should evolve as the drawing power of Consumption becomes strong enough to appropriate the driving power...

... with the energy to consume. In this vein, solarity is a poten- tial energy that passes through planetary life: it compels the tiger to hunt its prey, but it will also push through the tiger s body, driving it towards its own death, to rot into the earth and return to the raging heat of competition for the sun s...

... a as that which drives, materializes language, and smashes all totalities. Elsewhere I have attempted to reconstruct Lacan s later picture of discourse as a social link between speaking beings whose cause is the objet a.11 The analytic discourse, in particu­ lar, gives rise to his notion of the variations...