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... Affairs . A G A I N S T the D A Y Biju Mathew Magic Wands and Monkey Brains: Is Labor Ready to Lead Society in the New Struggle Over Data? On June 12, 2019, Dara Khusroshahi, the CEO of Uber, and two of his counterparts from Lyft wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in which they argued...

...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...

...F. Livingston Joy Magic in the English and Scottish Ballads F. Livingston Joy Oberlin College Study of the English and Scottish ballads soon reveals the fact that a rather large percentage of the three hundred and five ballads in Professor Child s delightful collection are un­ marked by any active...

...Helene Solheim Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Magic in the Web: Time, Pigs, and E. B. White Helene Solheim Though few twentieth-century Americans need to be introduced to the work of E. B. White, this essay is a kind of a preface to his work, hav­ ing in mind Dryden...

...Douglas Fowler Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Pynchon s Magic World Douglas Fowler Critics and literary theorists trying to place Thomas Pynchon would be wise to borrow the first precept of an even older profession: First, do no harm. I suspect that this investigation...

...Richard E. Quaintance, Jr. The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art . By Elliott Robert C. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1960 . Pp. 300 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 507 most distinctive artifacts of the period; viii. Frank...

...Ashbel G. Brice Magic and Myth of the Movies . By Tyler Parker . New York : Henry Holt and Company , 1947 . Pp. xx , 241 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 278 The South Atlantic Quarterly of the situation after Caesar s assassination, With the support...

...G. R. Elliott Magic in the Web: Action and Language in Othello . By Heilman Robert B. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1956 . Pp. 298 . $5.00 . Shakespeare and the Natural Condition . By Bush Geoffrey . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1956 . Pp. 135...

...Samuel Clyde McCulloch Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 JOHN DEE: ELIZABETHAN DOCTOR OF SCIENCE AND MAGIC SAMUEL CLYDE McCULLOCH JOHN DEE, now the most respected of Elizabethan scientists, was denounced for more than three hundred years after his death as a quack because he had...

...J. Lyndon Shanley The Magic Circle of “Walden” . By Anderson Charles R. . New York, Chicago, San Francisco : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1968 . Pp. 306 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly was a Comte, not a Compte...

...John L. Jackson, Jr. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. John L. Jackson Jr. A Little Black Magic Social constructionism continues to rack up...

...Joshua C. Gregory Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE MAGICAL FORMULA Joshua C. Gregory S CARRUTHERS wandered among the solitary mountains, 21 he came to a pleasant little valley. In one place, on a flat stretch, incongruous with the solitude, stood a stone building. It seemed...

... of sovereignty and biopolitics. While democratic autonomy involves the institutionalization of radical democracy, radical democracy needs to be defended against attacks of capital, state, and patriarchy. The question of how such defense can be organized without reproducing the “magic” of the state and law...

..., a collaboration between a visual artist and a scholar or literary writer. Each ends with guidance, a gentle directive to the reader for what to do now that they have drawn this card in a tarot reading. The Asian American Tarot is art-meets-scholarship-meets-wellness-practice-equals-magic-for-our-times. The Crip...

...Helen Groth In the first section of her Autobiography , Harriet Martineau recollects the first eight years of her life as a series of traumatic events in which illusion and reality merge. One event is prompted by an encounter with a domestic magic lantern. In its dismantled state, the lantern holds...

...”), psilocybin (or “magic mushrooms”), and MDMA (or “ecstasy”) has repeatedly shown that the therapeutically beneficial aspects of psychedelic medicines—their ability to positively transform human self‐perception, reduce anxiety and depression, and incite feelings of intense interconnectedness with the universe...

..., they were also immersed in the primal world of myth, ritual, and magic. Their sense of things technical was primarily influenced by that archaic world concept, rather than by a historically premature materialism. To test this thesis, we need only analyze and historically situate key examples of technology...

... of Mickey Mouse for autograph seekers he was supposedly brilliant at making decisions having to do with the plots of his films.1 And it is precisely the plot or narrative sequence that is most often pointed to as the distinguishing characteristic of the rides in the Magic King­ dom park from Pirates...

... . . . only the shapes of esthetic creation are impervious to the ravages of time. In discussing the thought of the author of The Magic Mountain, one should accordingly remember that this novel is not a philosophical treatise. Its immense intellectual content is dram­ atized, concretely objectified...

... mysteries of the Renaissance which celebrate the power of poetry to refine the dross of this our fallen life into the harmo­ nies of a Golden World. Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare these are magic names, names that evoke at once the mystery of the Word, the logos, that crucible wherein the Poet, half lunatic...