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...William G. Carleton Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 A Six-Year Term for the President? William G. Carleton During the past several years there has arisen an agitation to trans­ form the four-year term of the American president into a six-year term, with an incumbent ineligible...

...William G. Andrews Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 France 1968: Crisis Election and Long-Term Trends William G. Andrews The Crisis of May 1968 Never in the history of France did elections take place in more extraordinary conditions than in 1968. Crisis overlay crisis. Near­...

... and the Significance of the Term Social Emancipation ​In Bolivia, mainly in the rustic and wondrous Altiplano of La Paz, in the city of Cochabamba and its surrounding valleys, and in the lush and humid land...

...Richard D. Altick Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 MARK TWAIN S DESPAIR: AN EXPLANATION IN TERMS OF HIS HUMANITY RICHARD D. ALTICK IN MAKING a study of Mark Twain one will inevitably encounter the problem of his despair. An examination of the possible causes of his surprising...

...Itamar Mann The BDS movement has cast its campaign in legal terms, successfully conceptualizing the regime currently in place in Israel-Palestine as one that violates international law and requires a measure of transnational enforcement. Yet, from the perspective of Jewish Israeli citizens...

... babies should sleep, debates on sleep as a locus of care imagine both a future of productive sleep and a present of risky sleep for babies. This split in care for infants suggests that welfare itself should be reconceptualized both in terms of the care of populations through government regulation...

...Rita Laura Segato Colonial intervention in what I have called the village world (Segato 2015) has minoritized everything regarding women. The term minoritization refers to women's representation and collective position in social thought: minoritizing women means relegating all issues related...

... by black people in the French context. We pay attention to the fact that the outrage exceeded frontiers of political organization and took the form of a mass revolt, under the “black” banner. But it has also shown limits in terms of translating this indignation into a political project of emancipation...

... to universalize and totalize platform power, we discuss three cases of what we term “actually existing platformization”—a path-dependent and locally situated process in which platform companies engage in various forms of “boundary work” with other actors seeking to retain and/or gain power. Each case focuses...

... afterlives. This essay offers some reflections on this philosophical trajectory on its own terms but attempts to consider the effort to reclaim Paul for arguments about universalism and messianism in relation to the emergence of the notion of global Christianity , a term that, with its empirical referent...

...Avinoam Shalem From a sociocultural point of view, the term modern and its implications have formed, shaped, and even dictated the collective identity of the twentieth century. Therefore, questions relating to the birth of this term, its assessment, its manipulative methods, and especially its...

...Eugene Brennan This special issue demonstrates how theorizing the present in terms of crisis generates insights into contradictory experiences of historical time. The core questions addressed are these: What are the temporal forms through which crisis is expressed today, and what are the political...

...Grant Farred This essay offers a new term, autopbiography , for thinking the writing of the Self in J. M. Coetzee's Summertime. Autopbiography is distinguished from extant terms such as autobiography and Coetzee's own preferred one, autrebiography , mainly on the following grounds...

...Miguel Mellino The essay suggests that Frantz Fanon’s French term damnés has very different existentialist and political meanings than those conveyed by the English word wretched . Fanon’s conception of the damned was highly influenced by the revolutionary modernist political imagination of black...

... of nostalgeria , a term Derrida uses to describe his relationship to wartime France and, inadvertently, without full acknowledgment, colonized Algeria, a relationship that puts him in an especially vulnerable position as it pertains to the franchise. Nostalgeria functions here as a condition that speaks...

... terms, rather than as falling short of what one counts as a “properly” political act. To do so opens the question of how the traces (affective, subjective, perceptive) left by such events can become the material for collective processes of politicization and organization, as well as of how and where...

...Gavin Walker Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the term communism has returned to the theoretical and historical agenda with a striking force and a surprising novelty. In a wide range of fields of knowledge, the questions of the actuality and the history of the world communist movement...

...Alessandro Russo The new debate on communism requires exploring two essential distinctions: between a political and a philosophical term, and between experimental and governmental communism. This twofold division, this article argues, has a contemporary urgency, which is based on an assessment...

... incarceration (without mass protest) of “dangerous populations,” almost any young black man, Latino gang members, and small-fry neighborhood drug dealers. The normalization of long-term solitary confinement in Security Housing Units (SHUs) in US prisons crosses over into the realm of torture and crimes against...

... of sumud lies in its nonconceptualized features. Sumud is a form of what Gilles Deleuze might term “singular revolutionary becoming,” a creative way of restructuring the self that assumes an absolute difference as immanent to the self, a “difference-in-itself,” and not merely in relation to an outside...