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...Harvey Wish Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The New Formalism Versus the Progressive Historians Harvey Wish On the eve of World War I, a band of Russian literary scholars and philologists warred upon the leftist writers who immersed themselves in psychology, sociology...

... Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe...

... Quarterly 119:3, July 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8601386 © 2020 Duke University Press Oleg Aronson Preliminary Remarks toward a Formal Understanding of Revolution When we speak today about the various events of 1968, we invariably accentuate the youth pro- tests that engulfed not just France and the United...

... deploy civil rights historian Belinda Robnett’s notions of bridge and formal leadership to demonstrate how Gaines’s historical fiction serves as an early corrective to the masculinization of civil rights, civil rights leadership, and even the civil rights movement. While Gaines rightfully invokes...

...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated...

..., media commentaries, and productions; and formal institutional resistance and legal action. Altogether, Boğaziçi protests highlight, or, better, flesh out, the importance of university autonomy and democracy, reposing the question, What is a university? at this critical moment when public life...

... and voyeuristic surveillance, but prison officers deny any sexual content in these procedures while satisfying their professional gatekeeping tasks—the maintenance of carceral boundaries effectively blurring any formal distinctions between voyeuristic desire and bureaucratic duty. The state’s securitization...

... investigation of contemporary shifts in monetization and the specificity of creditor-debtor relations. This essay focuses on the dialectical relationship between the abstract and particular, between the calculus of capital and concrete materialities, between formal equality and substantive difference, between...

.... The synchronization of these different tempos configures the present crisis of democracy and its different reactions, such as the recent Occupy and anti-austerity movements, which have expressed their disenchantment with formal democracy. The article examines these disjointed temporalities of capital, state...

...Cédric Parizot This article relies on an ethnographic study of formal and informal chains of mediation triggered by administrative procedures that Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have to follow to obtain a permit of entry into Israel. By studying the networks these interactions structure...

... of Palestine and Palestinian identity that emerge from these maps. In so doing, it highlights forms of identification that transcend the mainstream nationalist Palestinian narrative and brings to the surface forms of agency, claim making, and solidarity that elude the formal political realm. The overall goal...

...Paul C. Taylor Recent years have brought substantial changes in the conditions that motivate and frame the work of Africana philosophy. Racist domination has largely given way to racialized hegemony; formal colonization has largely given way to neoliberal trade, aid, and debt regimes; and towering...

... regime since the “summer of migration” in 2015. Taken together, these examples illustrate three aspects of processes of recuperation: first, that legal changes often only formalize previously informal practices of recuperation, second, that the framing of migration in terms of crisis functions...

... between rights and needs, reason and unreason, and race and disability. I draw on both the content and formal and methodological innovation of Williams’s work on race and rights in order to explore the conjunctures and disjunctures—or what I call a structural and structuring double bind—between...

... of management. Beyond the formal sharing of an independent contractor status, nuanced by a variety of positions including salaried work, platform drivers are unified in practice by their common economic dependence on platforms. This situation gives them the role of an adjustment variable in platforms...

... psychoanalytically mediated decoupling of themselves from their Balkan origins and their own split subject positions. The empirical history of human solidarity formalized in the Marxist philosophy of class struggle and actualized in Gramsci's philosophy of praxis challenged not only Cartesian subjectivity as pure...

... of most students that we ask of faculty and graduate students: to what extent does the structured precariousness of their existence affect the very possibility of their exercising academic freedom irrespective of any formal guarantees? Marc Bousquet Take Your Ritalin and Shut Up...

...David Ker Thomson Faced with the looming captivity of the formal archive in the late 1930s, Sigmund Freud consigned his most important work—the story of the unconscious rise of Mosaic doctrine that underwrote the West—to a secret archive, itself a sort of unconscious. “Where do we meet...

... in Nigeria. Postcolonial modernism, the essay argues, refers to a set of formal and critical attitudes adopted by African and black artists at the dawn of political independence as a countermeasure against the threat of loss of self in the maelstrom unleashed by Western cultural imperialism and its aftermath...

... to send an official trade mission to urge the Qing emperor to lift the Chinese restrictions against opium. The Macartney mission of 1793 failed, but it consolidated two centuries of white upright transcendence over all other global races, when during his formal encounter with the Qianlong emperor, George...