...William Geoffrey Smith Unbound: A Conversation Piece . By Dilworth Ernest Nevin Leuba Walter . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1947 . Pp. 180 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 593 herge s Res Flaireurs (January, 1889); a year later...

...Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Master s Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition ^A^illiam Bennett and Allan Bloom, the dy­ namic duo of the new cultural right, have become the easy targets of the cultural left which I am defining here loosely and gener­...

... in current theoretical discourse, may therefore be helpful. I reflect on these diagonally, while suggesting their difference from the theory of action implied by working through. The logic of working through melts into the theory of reality as such. Registrations of pieces of reality, so the logic goes...

...Paul Gilroy This piece contrasts two periods of rioting in Britain that were thirty years apart. It asks how the 2011 riots might be “read” as expressing aspects of the country’s neoliberal transformation. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Apple Raymond W. 1981 . “ New...

...Christine Delphy This text, which is translated here for the first time in English, is taken from the “Preface” to The Main Enemy, Volume Two: Thinking Gender (2001). It is a companion piece to the 1993 essay “Rethinking Sex and Gender” (first published in French in 1991). © 2015 Duke University...

... to both. The authors take up one of those features in particular: the use of tip-based or piece-rate methods of wage payment. They explore the history of this insecure and informalized wage form not only to track the systematization of hyperexploitation in the service sector, but also to unearth a history...

...Lisa Disch This essay revisits the work of Christine Delphy, a leading activist in the women's liberation movement in France and a leading materialist feminist theorist whom many US feminist scholars have written off as a “seventies feminist”: she not only published one of her most-read pieces...

..., this essay also proposes the concept of “plantation future blues,” expressed in forms of sociality meant to unthink Black unfreedom. Ultimately, the piece considers how contemporary novels might point toward both anti-Black violence and elaborate on the hope of Black futurity by engaging the genres...

...—a conservative and religious political movement seeking to set up India as a Hindu state—on shaping the contours of secularism in contemporary law. The struggle over the meaning of secularism came to a head in an Indian High Court decision in 2010. The case involved a dispute over the legal title to a piece...

...Michael D. Snediker This piece includes four poems by Michael D. Snediker: “These Sufferings Are What,” “Hung about the Neck,” “He Borrowed the River,” and “Mercury Series.” Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 poetry Michael D. Snediker Michael D. Snediker Poems These Sufferings...

... urgency of our contemporary moment. This piece thus proposes that, while crip time is often about slowing and adapting models of time and productivity, crip time as a concept is also urgently needed to understand self-care outside of capitalist imperatives. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021...

..., and politics. To achieve this recognition Margolles works in medico-legal and forensic spaces, creating aesthetic pieces from the remains of crime. This essay examines a number of artworks by Margolles as she deals in death scenes that exceed the boundaries of “typical” criminological, political, or juridical...

...L. H. Stallings This creative, critical piece uses wild theory to address camp and camp scholarship for its lackluster attention to issues of race, embodied experience, and appropriation as it imagines a universal monolithic gay identity that erases cultural differences culled from race and gender...

...Kaveh Ehsani This essay presents three snapshots of the historical politics of pipelines (oil, natural gas, and water) in Iran since the turn of the twentieth century in order to juxtapose the variegated power struggles around seemingly similar pieces of materials transport technology. Pipelines...

...gamEdze; gamedZe This piece is a conversation that explores the space-time paradigm of capitalism as it manifests at the university and the alternative of “shutdown,” a strategy used by black students to interrupt the institution’s business as usual. On the barricades, behind the barricades...

... and circulations, rather than consolidations, that engender dispositions beyond clear apprehension or capture. Thinking of such extensions through the lens of Blackness, the South becomes a mode of exposure to a wider world that both unsettles the ruling calculus of what counts as lives worth living and pieces...

... and sovereign act—indeed, that it locates the problem of the political precisely in the aporetic character of that relation. Further, the piece suggests that the aesthetic emerges as a self-conscious and autonomous form, not, as Schmitt would have it, as a depoliticizing feature of liberalism, but specifically...

... in the ongoing revolutions in Bolivia and Chiapas. The essay is grounded in the observation of Frantz Fanon that “what matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the necessity for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must respond to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.” © 2011 Duke...

...Susan Willis This essay examines media accounts of the 2006 E. coli contamination of bagged spinach to piece together a forensics that demonstrates both the real and symbolic meanings of contamination. Following the path of production from field to processing plant and then to supermarket shelf...

... against each piece of news of sexist violence. In that atmosphere, and following a massive feminist strike on March 8, the denunciation of sexual abuse presented by several seasonal strawberry pickers in Huelva leaps into the media. Some collectives call for a march, expecting it to go viral again...