...Nichole T. Rustin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Nichole T. Rustin ‘‘Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse Music is work. The work ranges from the daily practice sessions to the...

...Jane Juffer Duke University Press 2006 Jane Juffer Why We Like to Lose: On Being a Cubs Fan in the Heterotopia of Wrigley Field My father has been a Chicago Cubs fan since before 1945, the last time the Cubs were in the...

...Jeffrey Allen Tucker This essay starts with two questions: how does one define science fiction, and what difference does race makes to science fiction? Posing these questions together suggests that they are related and provides an opportunity to consider Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984...

...Mridula Nath Chakraborty The obsession with “remains” in the wake of a devastated human century has been taken up in the work of European philosophers like Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jacqueline Rose and theorists like Marianne Hirsch and Kaja Silverman...

... years. The strategy and tactics of the movement are examined, and its rapid decline is explained. The final section outlines a number of challenges faced by contemporary debtors’ organizations like Strike Debt that emerge from the history of debt resistance and are illuminated by the story of El Barzón...

... process of endogenous financial hierarchization. The emergence of capitalist financial governance is conceptualized as a process whereby the state takes on bank-like properties and the capitalist state’s future-oriented institutional forms come to serve as constitutive aspects of economic value. The...

...David Thomson Parkour, the art of moving quickly in urban areas using only the body and staying true to the principle of “displacement,” a call to ceaseless forward movement combined with a kind of Zen-like self-presence, is dangerous to the practitioner ( traceur ) but also, in a sense, to the...

...Irene Watson The laws of first peoples are connected to our traditional lands. The colonial project dispossesses us of land, but our laws are often still carried with us. These Aboriginal laws become like us, the native peoples, disconnected from country. So how is it possible for first peoples and...

... and symbol of Victorian virtue, but also as an integral component of a discursive ensemble integrating reader, furnishings, and architecture. In novels like Dombey and Son , Dickens considers the vexing problem of domestic disquiet—the noisy and volatile insecurity of the middle classes at home—while...

... the attack on Mannheim repeated Marx and Friedrich Engels's attack on the Young Hegelians. Like Marx and Engels, Horkheimer and his associates managed to “uncloak [the] sheep, who take themselves and are taken for wolves” and settle their accounts with metaphysics in favor of a thoroughly secular...

... the likes of Noam Chomsky or Armand Mattelart on the grounds that their notions have been superseded by the ever-inventive strategies of the market.” To what within current conceptions of intellectual labor can we really attribute this tendency? It is this question to which my essay turns. © 2009...

... border of community and nation, foreclosing possibilities generated by mutual vulnerability? I argue that definitions of community/sanctuary based on the experience of economic and political suffering are more likely to sustain compassionate interactions than notions of community based on identity and...

...Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography and...

...Alain Gresh Africa's largest country, Sudan, is first and foremost part of the Arab world, sensitive to the political tides that sweep the Arab peoples from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. Like other members of the Arab League, Sudan was taken by surprise by the defeat of 1967. It was shaken by...

...Berni Searle Humanity ceaselessly seeks sites of refuge and reference points for values in territories offering possibilities for identifications and putting down roots. It is within this context that I would like to consider the relationship among three bodies of my work, namely, Seeking Refuge...

... the possibilities of a postcolonial relationship between criminal justice institutions and Indigenous communities. The essay argues that the recognition of Indigenous claims to governance offer the possibility of new ways of thinking about criminal justice responses to entrenched social problems like...

... enhancing its universal character while putting a European epistemological stamp on its subsequent reception. The traveling character of this dimension of modernity as export understands modernity as emerging from Europe, say, from the mid-fifteenth century, and slowly spreading outward like a million...

... reach of mind alone, God descends to permeate our entire personal being, body and soul. Second, liturgy completes thought because the governing of our senses by reason was disturbed by the fall of Adam. Disordered reason cannot recover this ordering, but our senses remain relatively innocent, like...

...], Right of Inspection [1985], and a series of reflections on the photographs of Frédéric Brenner in Diaspora [2003]), the three works that are set to come out in English in 2010 are likely not just to supplement but to radically augment and transform our understanding of Derrida's reading of the...

... incommensurate populist styles, all appealing to different versions of what civil society should feel like and how it should sound. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 A G A I N S T the D A Y Lauren Berlant Opulism The editors of this section ask about...