... Angeles : University of California Press , 1969 . Pp. ix , 281 . $8.50 . New Approaches to Ezra Pound: A Coordinated Investigation of Pound’s Poetry and Ideas . Edited with an Introduction by Hesse Eva . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1969 . Pp. 406...

... towards an investigation into practices of subjectivation and the constitution of an ethics of the self in ancient thought. Through a new and unique method of writing and investigation, Foucault comes to insist on the centrality of life, displacing the relation between the self and logos from the order...

... also investigate the resonance, presence, and topography of blackness in and as nothingness that is manifest at the intersection of mysticism and logic in black study. This essay is an attempt to contribute to that investigation. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Chandler Nahum...

...Zakiyyah Iman Jackson This essay concerns black feminist theory’s experimentation with the disciplinary discourses of chaos theory and physics to investigate the trace effects of blackness and explore the limits of conceptualization and representation in light of the particular problem...

... in the documents here under investigation. Among the terms of and for violent action, the legitimacy of preemptive war, the redefinition of victory, and the redefinition of the United States as historically reactive and defensive are examined. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Robin Wagner-Pacifici...

...Lynn Marie Houston The U.S. meat industry's tarnished reputation after the mad cow disease crisis has driven some ranchers to a breaking point, in which they blame food safety issues on illegal immigrants. This essay investigates the activities of a group called Ranch Rescue, whose members “round...

...Keya Ganguly The introduction to this issue on intellectual labor investigates the terms on which intellectual work is conducted and theorized today. Refuting the idea that intellectual-as-immaterial labor constitutes a primary productive force in contemporary capitalism, we look instead...

... modernism or narrow accounts of European art history. This essay is not concerned with securing a place for him within the mainstream history of modernism but rather investigating how models of “alternative modernities” might enable us to foreground the dialogical attitudes and practices that characterized...

... it, but that describing this reality might well require a remaking of the agent of investigation. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Brian Goldstone and Stanley Hauerwas Disciplined Seeing: Forms of Christianity and Forms of Life On How One Sees Things...

... origins, we attempt to highlight, in contrast, the radicality and innovation of the Zapatista concept of autonomy. Through an investigation of Zapatista political and territorial practices, we examine their efforts toward inverting the sovereign imperative—the relation of command obedience between...

... by both philosophy and literary and cultural studies to the margins of psychology, has become central, with shame, compassion, envy, and sentimentality all requiring theorization and historical exploration. Queer theory continues to expand its purview, as a wider range of investigations and arguments...

...Caetlin Benson-Allott Using Henry Selick's Coraline (2009) as an exemplum, this essay investigates what sort of desire digital 3-D cinema produces and satisfies in its spectator and how it integrates itself into Western systems of representation. Selick's film manipulates our biocular vision...

... blackness is oceanic, of the Middle Passage, and in the future tense or the not-yet as a trace within the now. I situate and elaborate this claim in relationship to Nahum Chandler’s investigation of modernity as a project of purity, Hortense Spillers’s reflections on the pornotroping of the flesh...

... and community in and through the imagination where we are able to recover a thinking that challenges the dominant configurations of power and open up new lines of investigation into the open futures for the discourse of religion and blackness. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Adorno...

...Ralph Litzinger This essay introduces recent efforts by activists, NGOs, and academics to investigate and report on the working conditions for Chinese workers along Apple’s supply chain in China. Tracking the “suicide express” at the Foxconn factory complex in Shenzhen in 2010, the work of the Hong...

... certainly partook of the dominant “productivist” and progressivist ideology of the period, it also explored, sometimes willy-nilly, the revolutionary “event” as something multiple and even uncentered. This paper, focused on the work of Dziga Vertov, investigates a number of ways—including the valorization...

...Julian Kevon Glover This article investigates sex work among Black transgender women in Chicago’s ballroom scene, drawing on ethnographic data to argue that Black transwomen engage in sex work as a practice of self-investment undergirded by an epistemological shift regarding the centrality...

... with the algorithm-conditioned visibility of platforms; and one is featured with regulatory attempts by platforms and authorities to introduce a new “creator economy.” Our investigation into the platformization has focused on the multifaceted role of networking that unfolds among prosumers and platforms...

...Fabien Brugière Drawing from a transurban field research conducted in the ride-hailing sector in Paris and Brussels regions, this article investigates platformization as a productive model defined by the articulation of an outsourced labor regime with an algorithmic and data-driven type...

...Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco Across the globe, algorithmic technologies have undeniably altered the way labor relations are governed. The purpose of this article is to investigate a particular manifestation of that phenomenon: how, in Brazil, platform capitalism consists in a hybrid...