...Erik Davis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Erik Davis Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information One of the most compelling snares is the use of the term metaphor to describe a correspondence between what the users see on the screen and how they should think about...

... Berlin housing differential inclusion © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Manuela Bojadžijev Housing, Financialization, and Migration in the Current Global Crisis: An Ethnographically Informed View from Berlin ​In the summer of 2013, the destruction of a public...

...Anne Balsamo Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Anne Balsamo Feminism for the Incurably Informed All we ever want (ever wanted) was to be on that mailing list. Ron Silliman, What My mother was a computer, but she never learned to drive. Grandmother was an order clerk...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Journey to the End of an Era: An Informal Autobiography . By Hall Melvin . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1947 . Pp. 438 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 123 bridled criticisms of British policy in many other...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt: An Informal Biography . By Hatch Alden . New York : Henry Holt And Company , 1947 . Pp. x , 413 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 601 contain information about himself and his circle; in a much...

... and informationalism will be hopefully described, one day, according to a para- digm that is capable of comprehending their continuum, intersections, and bifurcations, that is, their coevolution. If labor is reframed according to the composition of the flows of energy and information, a new theory...

... on the streets by working, begging, or stealing, and why they label the whole range of such activities as “work.” In examining the various kinds of labor the children engage in as they try to make a living in Rio’s destructured, largely informal economy, I use “child street labor” to refer to these varied forms...

... along the path of the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project. This article’s approach is methodologically informed by recent infrastructural thinking from theorists such as Lauren Berlant and Deborah Cowen who offer an expansive, relational understanding of infrastructure. It is also informed...

... as a persistent and disturbing reminder of Israel's settler colonial aspirations. By taking inventory of the various ontological crises attending what it means to be a Palestinian living in Israel, as well as the historical vectors informing Zionism's various attempts to prevent the development of Palestinian...

... analytic focus on the law. Instead, the author argues for a field-level focus built around both the everyday life of surviving sex work in the informal economy and the understanding that enforcement of the law regularly diverges from the letter of the law itself. Unless it accounts for prevailing epistemic...

...Diana Allan Drawing on ethnographic material from Shatila camp in Beirut and the informal gathering of Jal el Bahr in Tyre, in southern Lebanon, this article explores the possibilities suggested by various forms of collaborative practice within these marginalized communities. As the Palestinian...

..., and beyond them, reflecting on experiences in the student movement, we consider the complex of militarized violence, on one hand, and, on the other, masculinist, physicalized resistance informed by particular readings, interpretations, and embodiments of Afropessimist positions on black people that seem...

... a “murderabilia” auction, we explore the relationship between the public's freedom of inquiry and access to information, on the one hand, and academic freedom of the professoriate, on the other. We argue that the public's broad, yet poorly recognized freedom of inquiry under the First Amendment is in some ways...

... critical—tainted by the particularity of religious tradition and thus disqualified from the alleged universality of secular reason. On this account, critical thought could be informed only by secular reason. Criticism, in this picture, is bound up with the disenchantment of the world. This confidence...

... “nonpolitical” or “prepolitical”—we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular “moral economy” of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters were acting in defense of the “customary entitlements” of what we call a neoliberal “deal”—a deal based on aspiration, plentiful...

... peripheries through a variety of informal economies, with blurred boundaries between the legal and the illegal, which can be read as a prototype of financialization’s arrival in these territories. It is there, the article hypothesizes, where capital extends its frontiers and where the necessity of a specific...

... the inefficiencies of the judicial process, may be recruited as gang members or followers, if not by intimidation then by the promise of informal provision of material facilities where state provision is almost totally lacking. In this article, we seek to analyze the symbiotic relationships between prisoners...

... our approaches to un/wellness and radically expand our vocabularies through the arts and humanities. This essay, written in the form of love letters, journeys through the relationships, experiences, and curatorial processes that inform Open in Emergency ’s interventions, particularly what the author...

... to both. The authors take up one of those features in particular: the use of tip-based or piece-rate methods of wage payment. They explore the history of this insecure and informalized wage form not only to track the systematization of hyperexploitation in the service sector, but also to unearth a history...

...Jonathan S. Parhusip Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on the informal organizational structures...