... political, artistic or otherwise. An essential feature of this aesthetic zeitgeist was its mixture of ludic and political elements; as Mo nik put it, Unseriousness and even playfulness were combined in a graceful way with political radicalism (83). In fact, the notion of play was itself emerging...

... DeLillo. Photo: Joyce Ravid. Tseng 2001.11.19 12:53 Don DeLillo The Mystery at the Middle of Ordinary Life: A One-Minute Play In a letter to Frank Lentricchia...

...Catherine Mills This essay examines the notion of “playing with law” that Giorgio Agamben proposes in State of Exception and, more broadly, his understanding of “play” as developed in works such as Infancy and History . In this latter text, Agamben provides his most extended discussion of play...

... life-times from the side of life destined for disposable superfluity. I look at acts of “fate playing” in the contexts of migrant Filipina workers and the urban lumpenproletariat to view those dimensions of social reproductive work on the part of disposable peoples that persist beyond and despite...

...Nichole T. Rustin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Nichole T. Rustin ‘‘Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse Music is work. The work ranges from the daily practice sessions...

...David L. Andrews Duke University Press 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. David L. Andrews Introduction: Playing with the Pleasure Principle I want to start with the fact...

... ethical and practical horizon of “revellion” in which the violent legacies of revolution are displaced by a politics that seeks to rewire the overheated pleasure circuits of northern civilization toward the pursuit of humbler joys and playful relations. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021...

...Soyica Diggs Colbert Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop (2011) depicts Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night alive. The play, conjecturing what may have been King’s final thoughts, reservations, desires, and fears, consists of a conversation between King and an enigmatic maid named Camae who we learn...

... Australian national myths, icons, and discourses played a role in people's safety maps. When viewed through the lens of safety maps, the Cronulla race riots can be read as a complex interaction of discourses, bodies, space, and sociopolitical institutions. I argue for thinking through safety as a lived...

...” of migration regimes, according to a “delivery” rationality instantiated by the policy goal of a “just-in-time and to-the-point” migration. This hypothesis is tested with respect to Germany on the basis of research conducted by the authors in Berlin, particularly focusing on the roles played by a complex...

...Deborah Cowen; Glenda Garelli; Martina Tazzioli In this interview, the editors of this issue of SAQ ask Deborah Cowen about how the notion of the migration crisis has played out in the field of logistics. Deborah Cowen, Glenda Garelli, and Martina Tazzioli Editors’ Interview with Deborah Cowen...

... at the site of interpretation and methodology. By placing videogame studies into critical conversation with critiques of ongoing settler colonialism, this essay suggests that settler colonial governance and racial capitalism persist in the spaces between representation and play. By drawing upon recent...

...Michael Stein This essay attempts to demonstrate the limits of American social science by examining the tension between method and theory and, in particular, how this tension plays out in The Authoritarian Personality as well as in contemporary works of political psychology informed by Adorno et al...

..., the Kurdish movement, and the movement base, the essay underlines the significant role that the movement-level dynamics have played during the years 2013–18. References Alan Serkan . 2018 . “Gaziantep Emniyeti’nin 10 Ekim’in Planlayıcısını Takip Edip Yakalamadığı Ortaya Çıktı” (“Gaziantep Police...

... that authoritarian neoliberalism in Berlin and Paris have played a central—yet variegated—role in creating nondemocratic conditions that have led to rental housing insecurity for vulnerable populations, including refugees. Second, we suggest that the refugee crisis trope itself may be understood as an integral...

... that “not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious.” Analyzing sixteenth-century German “mourning plays,” he studies the allegorical poetics of the form to explore how a human world that seems inescapably mournful, is, in the end, transformed through a narrative and poetics of redemption...

... of colonization that protect the interests of white capital. But their respective prevalence seems to depend on the regime of racial capitalism at play. This paper examines the intersection of settler colonization and racial capitalism to shed light on the status of Indigenous economic rights in Canada. I ask...

... spatial transformations. Starting with a few genealogical and theoretical vignettes, we argue that logistics plays a decisive role in contemporary processes of both the establishment of new and mobile forms of territoriality and the production of subjectivity. We hypothesize that these two productive...

..., is the black, cast as a threatening and unpredictable entity on account of its aversion to capitalist employment. The centering of African desire and well-being around labor not only has played a decisive role in structuring sociopolitical conflicts in contemporary South Africa. It also has underpinned...

... builds on the environmental justice movement and its challenges to mainstream environmental organizations around a civil rights agenda of ecological equity for all. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans has played a particularly important role in catalyzing the movement for climate...