...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...

...Ben Fawcett About one-third of the global human population does not have access to an effective toilet. As a result, disease-carrying feces contaminate the human environment causing more than seven hundred thousand child deaths each year from diarrhea, poor child development as a result of worm...

...Bülent Eken Eken’s essay contends that the mass insurrection that resulted in a fifteen-day occupation of Gezi Park in Istanbul in June 2013 can be seen as a response to the ongoing implementation of new forms of social control in Turkey. Itself the result of a process of convergence with global...

.... Reformers, social scientists, elected officials, and philanthropists believed that the so-called poor white problem was a result of the backwardness of the home, which they blamed on inept poor white mothers. Thus, the notion of poor whiteism also became deeply gendered. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008...

...Ian Henderson This essay explores the meaning of home in the 2006 film Ten Canoes . The film resulted from an extraordinary collaboration between the Ramingining Aboriginal community of northeastern Arnhem Land and Australian art-house director Rolf de Heer. It tells of Dayindi (Jamie Dayindi...

... permanently to France and pursue alternative aesthetic horizons. As a result, the subtleties of his long career, the means through which his practices “belong to the modern,” and the cartographies and densities of a complex, cosmopolitan artistic life are lost in either overdetermined histories of African...

...Jon Bialecki This essay takes note of the fact that Alain Badiou published both Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and Deleuze: The Clamor of Being in the same year and of the resulting controversy that has emerged from Badiou's (and his followers') critique of the propriety...

...Chris Cunneen The processes of criminalization lay the foundation for creating significant disadvantage among Indigenous people across the former settler societies of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Yet the massive incarceration of Indigenous people has not resulted in ensuring...

..., depend on a relaxation of resistance, which may be the result of working through: the loosening of resistance enables a new perspective, the recognition of new objects. On the other hand, such registrations may enable resistance to loosen—registering any piece of reality can change the dynamic...

...Thomas L. Dumm President Barack Obama seems to have abandoned his left base in order to rule in a bipartisan manner. In this essay, I suggest that his strategy has not been to govern from the center, even if that is the result of his strategy. Instead, by focusing attention on his conflicts...

... were felt themselves to be in a quandary with few resources for resolving the tensions they felt between the depth of their miscarriage grief and their pro-choice politics. In 2005, an Australian parliament passed legislation in response to cases of women miscarrying pregnancies as a result of violence...

... of strain on the metaphor is identified in the growing perception of social and religious disunity in early modern political thought, which called into question the social and political union integral to the metaphor. The result was that early modern European political thinkers groped for less organic...

... with fluctuations between “closures” and “openings” and is now characterized by a government that aims to merely administer over the situation that has resulted from the crisis of neoliberalism? Here, Colectivo Situaciones does not attempt to answer these questions (which still remain open) but rather proposes...

...Michael Hardt This essay argues that the economic crisis that began in 2008 is not the result, as some say, of the “real” economy being subordinated to the fictional values of finance. To understand the crisis, in fact, one has to recognize how increasingly the values produced in the contemporary...

...Ann Larson For the last three decades, cities and towns across the United States have grappled with a severe reduction in public funding which has weakened municipalities’ ability to provide basic services. As a result, municipal governments are increasingly financed by debt. Public Authorities (PA...

...Giulia Dal Maso The article examines the distinctive features of Chinese financialization. It argues that in China “mass financialization” was strategically led by a state effort to compensate for the social outcomes that resulted when the communist model of collective work units ( danwei...

... demanded by service work. Rather than use service work to think about the exploitation and coercion that shapes all wage labor under capital, however, such accounts tend to treat service work and sex work as uniquely abject. As a result, they do not attend to the systemic and structural features common...

...Francis Kuriakose; Deepa Kylasam Iyer Platform capitalism has enabled digital platforms to bring producers, consumers, and workers in a multisided marketplace with the purpose of collecting data. The resulting commodification of materiality and sociality in the digital sphere and the proprietary...

... gathered speed and is changing the way we communicate and work, challenging the everyday life of our cities. As a result, we are confronted with a new topology of negotiation, participation, governance, and control in a virtual realm. With that, rights and duties of citizens are also being transformed...

...Jillian Crandall; Andrew Mercado Vázquez Increasingly, blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are posed to impact economic futures and urban governance. New forms of human settlement are emerging as a result of and in service to cryptocurrency, curiously concentrating in areas...