...Annabel Patterson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Annabel Patterson The Very Name of the Game: Theories of Order and Disorder ^\mong the Clarendon State Papers is a letter from John Nicholas at the Hague to an English correspondent, dated 23 April 1654, four months after...

...Allan Peskin Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 President Garfield and the Rating Game: An Evaluation of a Brief Administration Allan Peskin Among the games political historians delight to play, a perennial favorite is one which might be called Rate the President. From time...

...Chris Gair; William J. Baker Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Manhood Game: American Football in Critical Perspective Chris Gair and William J. Baker In popular apprehension, wrote Thorstein Veblen almost a century ago, there is much that is admirable in the type...

...Joel Colton On the Game of Politics in France . By Leites Nathan . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1959 . Pp. xiii , 190 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 131 History as High Adventure (American Historical Review, January, 1959...

...Max Haiven; Adam (A.T.) Kingsmith; Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou Can board games be part of challenging the dangerous tide of reactionary cultural politics presently washing over the United States and many other countries? The authors frame this threat to progressive social movements and democracy...

...Amy Bass Duke University Press 2006 Amy Bass Objectivity Be Damned, or Why I Go to the Olympic Games: A Hands-On Lesson in Performative Nationalism For historians, the question of objectivity was supposed to have been settled back...

...’ Oedipus Rex , which was taken up again several times in the 1970s and 1980s. Truth is always analysed here as an essential function to govern the self and others by telling the truth, and this function is accomplished, according to Foucault, through the ‘game of halves’ that he discovers in Sophocles...

...Jodi A. Byrd Close reading Irrational Games’s 2013 BioShock Infinite to consider how notions of the wild circulate at the site of the both absent and present Indian, this essay argues that the ontological turn in technology studies is predicated on the juridical, racial, gendered, and colonial...

... truths, each of which claims to be the only possible truth. It is argued that these truths are products of a situated antagonistic struggle, which, rather than indicating a firm belief, are used to serve the purposes of a game of power seeking. The search for truth in the battle of good against evil...

... year on, Macron’s neoliberal plan is the only game in town, and protestors need to urgently remobilize for the struggles and catastrophic social realities ahead. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Lebanon Lebanon’s October 2019 Protests neoliberalism Hizbullah Beirut blast...

... and mobile capital, pitted against workers not just in Lagos but around the world. This article adopts James Scott’s notion of everyday resistance in exposing some of the hidden practices of platform drivers in Lagos. It finds that sabotaging and falsely complying through manipulating algorithms and gaming...

... connect and reinforce each other, the essay then asks what academic freedom can signify given the new game of power. The Boğaziçi resistance, it argues, shows how defending academic freedom cannot solely be an academic matter. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022...

.... Emergent ecosystems are teeming with grasshoppers, katydids, praying mantises, and other edible insects, as well as marsupial game animals. Children are finding happiness in the hap of what happens in these multispecies worlds. At the same time, plans by technocrats in distant metropolitan centers to turn...

... followed the Trailblazers during the seasons when they reached the NBA finals, but he s lost interest as they ve lost close to half their games in recent years. Were he permitted, Colin would live about six feet away from our television set, where all his teams reside, where every team is the home team...

...Thomas McLaughlin 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Ardener, Shirley, ed. Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . London: Oxford University Press, 1993 . Bradley, Bill. Values of the Game .NewYork:Artisan, 1998 . Carrigan, Tim, Bob Connell, and John Lee. “Towards a New...

...Patrick Crogan 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Patrick Crogan Blade Runners: Speculations on Narrative and Interactivity The release of Westwood Studio’s Blade Runner computer game offers a unique opportu- nity...

... of England s national game, cricket. Played since the Middle Ages by men and women and written about since the early eighteenth century, it developed out of rough, ancient folk sports like Knurr-and-Spell in Yorkshire and Dab-and-Billet in Nottingham­ shire to become a refined, precise, and etiquettebound...

... to watch each game that’s televised. That desire dissipated over the last two years when the Cubs were, off and on, serious con- tenders, especially in 2003, when they won their division and the first three games...

... assumed by most commentators on this chapter), is precisely the blind spot into which I will insert my discussion. While many critics have elaborated on the notion of fading or absence and its necessary precondition for symbolization, as this is enacted in the child s game, the discussion in general has...