... systems of value under capitalism. Second, I discuss the specific antagonism that shapes the work of food animals, where animals confront humans, and increasingly machines, in relations of hostility. My aim here is to show the way that resistance is tied to the structural position of food animals...

...Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller; Noenoe K. Silva The scientific, philosophical, and political efforts to police the distinction between human and animal—amalgamated processes that Giorgio Agamben has called “the anthropological machine”—have been significant components of neocolonial governance in Hawai`i...

... and misrecognizes some key aspects of its organization and internal functioning. Attention to the latter—particularly the role played by what the author describes as “political entrepreneurs”—allows us to understand contemporary far-right agitation in Brazil as a machine to both stimulate and contain excess. Thus...

...Lisa Trahair 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Lisa Trahair The Ghost in the Machine: The Comedy of Technology in the Cinema of Buster Keaton In his essay ‘‘The Question Concerning Tech- nology Martin Heidegger argues...

...Walter Fuller Taylor Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 MARK TWAIN AND THE MACHINE AGE WALTER FULLER TAYLOR I WHEN, IN HIS campaign of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a New Deal, his slogan, at least, need have been no novelty to Americans. The phrase was coined...

...Carl S. Matthews Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Decline of the Tuskegee Machine, 1915-1925: The Abdication of Political Power Carl S. Matthews Just as Tuskegee Institute was the center for conflicting theories of black education and for the uplifting of black farmers...

...Janell Watson 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Janell Watson Oil Wars, or Extrastate Conflict ‘‘beyond the Line Schmitt’s Nomos, Deleuze’s War Machine, and the New Order of the Earth There are at least three ways to read the U.S.-Iraq...

...Jerry Aline Flieger Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Jerry Aline Flieger Overdetermined Oedipus: Mommy, Daddy, and Me as Desiring-Machine There is only desire and the social, and nothing else. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus R>r all its pathfinding brilliance...

...Matteo Pasquinelli This essay proposes a definition of industrial labor as the composition of energy and information, in order to weave the issue of labor back into the fabric of the Anthropocene paradigm. The essay illustrates the industrial machine as the forgotten bifurcation of energy...

...Joel Carmichael Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 SOVIET POLICY AND THE GERMAN MACHINES JOEL CARMICHAEL NO DOUBT a very considerable amount of apprehension exists in this country concerning the Soviet Union and the outcome of the war. Articles and speeches testifying to our...

...Robert S. Smith Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture . By Holbrook Stewart H. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1955 . Pp. 246 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 254 The South Atlantic Quarterly Berea serves the southern mountains...

...Jeffrey T. Nealon Duke University Press 2006 Jeffrey T. Nealon Take Me Out to the Slot Machines: Reflections on Gambling and Contemporary American Culture While for a century it was hailed as ‘‘the American pastime baseball has been...

..., planning has become a process of creating architectural opportunities from scattered corpuses of extracted data. Mindful of the importance of machine learning in such processes, this article critically grapples with the proposition that techniques of reverse engineering offer a means of cracking...

...Krzysztof Ziarek Placed side by side, Giorgio Agamben's The Open and Martin Heidegger's “Letter on Humanism” might read like two versions of the critical question about the aftermath of humanism. For Agamben, the answer lies in the rendering inoperative of the anthropological machine of humanism...

... spectrum as a machine designed precisely to foreclose “adventure” itself. The second and third sections of the essay follow this trope of entrepreneurial radicalism into the present conjuncture. Here, the method is less that of a textual genealogy than a dialectical criticism concerned with the surface...

... understandings of thought have dramatic implications for contemporary selfhood, sociality, and political life. This essay situates their understandings of animality, selfhood, and thinking through the work of Giorgio Agamben. Agamben's concept of the “anthropological machine” offers an alternative framing...

..., expression, and responsibility. To do so, the essay visits Bergson’s Laughter, to probe at questions of comedy reliant on the machinic, on the fresh impression, and on particular temporalities of being versus expression. Finally, a number of specific cases of police violence are considered, not only...

...Julie Livingston; Andrew Ross Consumer lore in the United States celebrates the automobile as a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the crossroads of two great systems of unfreedom and immobility—the debt economy...

...” in Franco Berardi's terms—to work. But that labor, in accordance with capitalist valorization, is nearly always human. At best, it is human labor supplemented with machines. But what are we to make of the lively materials—of human and nonhuman provenance alike—now at “work” alongside us? This essay takes up...

... simultaneously of an irrepressible, unforgettable, and unrequitable longing—for, inter alia, a reliable political, one that does not subject the Jew to the machinations of imperial France—that is also instructive in explicating what it means to live and write the postcolonial. It is this way that nostalgeria...