...Imre Szeman Duke University Press 2007 Imre Szeman System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster Siri sipped at her coffee. “I would have thought that your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy...

...Gareth Williams 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Gareth Williams Imagined Secularization: The Nomos of the Earth and the Challenge of the Western Hemispheric Interstate System Every productive concept in the modern theory of the...

...Carlos Amador This essay provides an account of the events that took place during the November 2009 protests against the University of California Regents' tuition hikes at UCLA. Although the tuition hikes affected every student in the UC system, they are particularly difficult for undocumented...

...Lilly Irani Digitally mediated labor can take many forms: valorized and visible, hidden and forgotten, or even disavowed. This article examines one particular digital work system: Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). AMT is a system that organizes tens of thousands of workers to do data-processing work...

.... The essay charts the critique of the “Declaration” by the Association of American Colleges (AAC). The AAC, an organization of administrators rather than faculty, laid the groundwork for the tenure system as it exists today. It outlined the seven-year probationary period that would precede tenure, and...

... safety of individuals within Indigenous communities. Imposed criminal justice systems have not ensured the maintenance of social order in Indigenous communities. This essay explores the relationship between Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system...

... essay challenges some of the Australian definitions of Indigenous identity, sovereignty, and law, which come out of a Western epistemology and value system. This challenge includes the role of the United Nations' special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous...

... genesis and development of Strike Debt, a major challenge for which has been how to aesthetically mediate and ideologically frame the systemic debt servitude imposed on the majority of the population in such a way as to call forth the debtor as a collective political subject. Breaking the frames of the...

...Andrew Ross Postwar GDP growth has been fueled by debt cycles. This debt-growth system may have reached its limits. Whole populations, in the cities and countryside—in the global South as well as the North—are groaning under unsustainable debt burdens. Drastic climate change can only be averted by...

... undermine the legitimacy of the system inflicting those injustices, the 2011 California prisoners on hunger strike repeatedly invoked the broader legitimacy of the US prison system. Indeed, the article argues that, although prisoners drew on an international dialogue about basic human rights and appropriate...

...Jeremie Caribou This essay reveals the true history of my people. It demonstrates our highly developed social, spiritual, and political governance structures. Our use of the water systems underscores the ecological integrity of sustainable development that we fostered for thousands of years. Yet...

... experiments in such visualization. Each takes its start from a type of model used in evolutionary studies, respectively, the feedback systems of niche construction and the graphing of fitness or adaptive “landscapes.” In each case the model is adapted in qualitative ways in order to encounter a deep human...

...Margaret Price Focusing on the theme of “slowness,” this article demonstrates that an individualized approach to access in university life worsens inequity rather than alleviating it. It introduces the concept of the “accommodations loop,” through which slow systems and processes impede access...

...Lawrence R. Schehr The French warning system against possible acts of terror, called Vigipirate, is a color-coded plan for raising awareness of the citizenry of France and a program of precautionary activities and policies. Each of the four stages of the alert—yellow, orange, red, and scarlet...

... system. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Jon Bialecki Angels and Grass: Church, Revival, and the Neo-Pauline Turn Said Rabbi Simon: “Every single blade of grass has a corresponding ‘mazal’ in the sky which hits it and tells...

... Arctic may be appropriately made. The Inuit are currently actively resisting the new wave of colonization within a framework built on the bedrock of nation-state sovereignty. The notion of “sovereignty” serves as a keystone in a system of controlling narratives, functioning to generate and police ways of...

... resistances across the psychic system and have effects outside the immediate occasion. Working through resistance merges on both ends with the ongoing registration of perceptions in the lifelong project of trying to perceive reality together with other people. Departing somewhat from Freud's use of the term...

...Caetlin Benson-Allott Using Henry Selick's Coraline (2009) as an exemplum, this essay investigates what sort of desire digital 3-D cinema produces and satisfies in its spectator and how it integrates itself into Western systems of representation. Selick's film manipulates our biocular vision to...

...Raquel Gutiérrez This essay analyzes the events that occurred in Bolivia between 2000 and 2005. At that time, a powerful wave of mobilizations and uprisings opened up a space-time of Pachakuti . That is to say, it generated upheaval in a social system that, until then, had been accepted as normal...

... created an enormous engine for the appropriation of surplus value, which has led to a chronic stagnation of aggregate demand and unsustainable stress on the world financial system. The lack of a coherent solution to the problem of aggregate demand at the world level threatens to exacerbate conflicts among...