...Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Apathy and Dissent: Black America s Negative Responses to World War I Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. Within a few months after the end of the First World War, three books extolling the contributions of Black Americans...

...William R. Brashear Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The Power of Negative Thinking: An Essay on Tragedy William R. Brashear I The tragedian, though never a cynic or sceptic, can be described as a negative thinker negative in a special, even perverse sense. This is a sense...

...Arkady Plotnitsky Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Arkady Plotnitsky Curvatures of the Negative: Ars Nova and Doktor Faustus from 1900 to 2001 Thomas Mann s Doktor Faustus may be read as a response to the possibility of the radi­ cally unfigurable, a concept (developed here via...

... of 1917. This history of texts and media not only illustrates the concept of revolutionary tradition but also highlights its negativity, by which the author means its potentially nihilistic sanction of violence. The South Atlantic Quarterly 119:3, July 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8601434 © 2020 Duke...

...Lee Edelman Duke University Press 2007 Lee Edelman Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social At a moment when violence as a first resort accentuates the fault lines of empire; at a mo­ ment...

...Nat Raha The affects of transfeminine life and their relationship to the material conditions undergirding such life are undertheorized in transgender studies and queer studies. This creative and critical essay conceptualizes transfeminine brokenness through negative experiences and emotions...

...Ellis Hanson In 1995, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick proposed the concept of “reparative reading,” a critique of what she called “paranoid reading,” a certain hermeneutic of aggravated suspicion and negative affects. In recent years, psychoanalytic theorists of queerness have taken a quite different turn...

... of the students' demands were necessarily reformist (saving rather than exiting the university), their collective punishment and negative solidarity provides a model for contemporary political practice in general. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Nina Power Dangerous Subjects...

... artful and stylized. These nuances reveal different understandings of what nonbelief entails in matters of conduct and whether the negative and epistemic category of “nonbelief” properly describes their difference from theists. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Asad Talal...

... from political, public, and popular deliberations over racial inequality and social justice and argues that anger and rage often expressed through BLM activism are appropriate responses to circumstances of entrenched and pervasive racism. I contend that the expression of these so-called negative...

...Rodrigo Karmy Bolton This article argues that martyrdom carries with it a destituent power. To this end, it examines the difference between martyrdom and sacrifice in five sections. The first four discuss sacrifice in French anthropology; Bataille's proposal of an “unemployed negativity...

.... It is also loaded with negative affect. This essay traces the ways that TERF travels in feminist dialogue—often alongside “lesbian”—and argues that loud disavowals of TERFs accumulate into discursive routines that present as anti ‐anti‐trans, but (and) primarily function to preserve a sense of the threatened...

...Ana C. Dinerstein The essay discusses negativity as the force underpinning social antagonism, with particular reference to the fleeting moment of hope experienced in Argentina in December 2001. Developing Ernst Bloch’s notion of “real as process,” the essay problematizes “factual reality...

... the negative differentiation, or privation, such erasure produces with respect to differences that used to characterize a form of life that was destroyed. In order to show how this paradox opens up new possibilities of resistance, I supplement Agamben's genealogies of bare life with two different political...

... mobilizes both a critical perspective on neoliberalism and a transformative prospective. It allows us to both acknowledge and go beyond a concern with inequities of power, which so strongly signal an expectation of negativity and lack of social justice, to ask how the notion of precarious bodies might...

... to demonstrate how the Rights Framework manifests a contemporary form of patriarchal colonialism in state-Indigenous politics, especially self-government negotiations, that will continue to negatively impact Indigenous women and gender diverse persons. I further argue how the MMIWG Inquiry Final Report released...

...George B. de Huszar Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH GEORGE B. de HUSZAR TO BE WITHOUT a master is not necessarily to be free. The removal of formal limitations is but a negative condition and does not in itself create positive freedom. Yet some...

... the earliest times, and the quest for knowledge of the ulti­ mate has been a fundamental characteristic of all systems of phi­ losophy and science. With Parmenides matter is simply not be­ ing as opposed to being. Plato attributed to matter something more than mere negative existence. With him...

..., UK : Darmouth . Bonefeld Werner . 2009 . “ Emancipatory Praxis and Conceptuality in Adorno .” In Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism , edited by Holloway John Matamoros Fernando Tischler Sergio , 122 – 47 . London : Pluto . Bonefeld Werner...

... is the negative side of a positive witnessing, the one that is well articu- lated by Giorgio Agamben in Remnants of Auschwitz: “‘Human beings are human insofar as they are not human’ or, more precisely, ‘human beings are human insofar as they bear witness to the inhuman1 For the philoso- phers...