...Grant Farred Using the brief (ten-week) rule of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo as an instructive instance for thinking the post-, “Not the Moment After, but the Moment Of” argues that the post- is never the time after but the moment—impossible as it is to understand—of, that is, the moment itself...

..., and scope of what it means to do politics. This essay emphasizes that understanding these moments of rupture and the evolution of political struggle in Latin American will prove invaluable in assessing the potentials and pitfalls of this moment of worldwide uprisings against localized expressions...

... and its policy of embracing globalization created the conditions for the defeat of China’s traditional urban working class. Coinciding with this moment has been the gradual emergence of a new movement of labor headed by migrant workers who have taken advantage of structural flaws in China’s development...

... until the window to prevent runaway climate change may permanently close (IPCC 2022 ), but following many similar, unsuccessful previous attempts to change course, the question emerges of how to understand the meaning of this moment for climate activism. Addressing this issue requires...

...Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering ^\ndrew Pickering s work is consistently interesting and important. His Concepts and the Mangle of Practice: Constructing Qua­ ternions is no exception. Indeed, Pickering bravely and ably extends his...

...Benjamin Noys Instead of crisis as a punctual event the contemporary experience is one of overlapping forms and modes of crisis resulting in a complex rhythm. While attempting to respond to this situation contemporary theory has often struggled to focus on the present moment of crisis. Instead...

...Milind Wakankar 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Milind Wakankar The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility Why was the moment of criticism in Hindu nationalist...

...Henry M. Sayre Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Henry M. Sayre Pursuing Authenticity: The Vernacular Moment in Contemporary American Art I n the late 1960s, a young Washington Heights teenager named Demetrius began writing his nickname, Taki, together with his street number, 183...

...Michael Kreyling A Still Moment: Essays on the Art of Eudora Welty . Edited by Desmond John F. . Metuchen, New Jersey : The Scarecrow Press , 1978 . Pp. viii , 142 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 412 The South Atlantic Quarterly political democracy...

...William Blackburn The Shakespearian Moment and Its Place in the Poetry of the 17th Century . By Cruttwell Patrick . New York : Columbia University Press , 1955 . Pp. 262 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 562 The South Atlantic Quarterly In his plea...

...Charles B. Wheeler The Moment of Poetry ( Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1962 , $3.50 Winifred Nowottny’s The Language Poets Use ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1962 , $5.75 Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 456 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Ana Esther Ceceña In this essay, Ana Esther Ceceña argues that understanding our contemporary moment requires a rethinking of the processes of domination and emancipation, foregrounding the role of subjects in processes of construction and confrontation. Subjects, she argues, are forged in struggle...

...John E. Drabinski The postcolonial moment is animated by a single, fecund question: What does it mean to begin? Whether it is a vision of cultural retrieval, syncretic memory work, or a first production of the unprecedented, this moment is oriented toward the new as a question of resistance...

... and economic crisis. Many remarked on awaiting moments of dance and embodiment, or the body after surgery during COVID, to the forms of mutual aid arriving, just on time. Others expressed holding patterns of rage, when being called forth in work environments to engage in conversations about race, others...

... explicitly by the sixties’ infamous succession of political assassinations— functions as a crisis moment for black representation in both politics and culture. The stories that are told about this moment of rupture in turn work to imagine and concretize vying representational possibilities for a black...

...John Whitlow This article starts from the premise that we are living amid a conjunctural moment, in which the neoliberal political economic and ideological paradigm has been destabilized. In moments of conjuncture, competing social groups vie—contingently and unevenly—to reconfigure a social order...

... politics, and incompatible with white-centered notions of justice, liberty, and democratic freedom. Critically, in this moment, as Black Americans are disproportionately harmed by the effects of COVID-19, hypersurveilled in neighborhoods plagued by neoliberal disinvestment, and over-policed en masse, mass...

... onwards, a newly practical-political orientation tasked with an interventionist mandate—the practice of ‘truth-telling’, ‘political spirituality’, and an ethics of the ‘care of the self’, a self-transformation through revolution. But in between these periods and problematics lies a peculiar moment between...

... of, for instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate scenarios and the image of the climate clock. The performative call to “act now” entails, therefore, its own contradictions. When every now moment can be staged as the decisive moment, time is paradoxically made empty again...

... to characterize the entrepreneurial horizon at a given moment in history and 2) those organized around a dialectics of sovereignty, around the entrepreneur's claim to a power or stature usually reserved for the “Great,” controversial founders of states. These lines of inquiry matter for the way they put pressure...