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... thus be recognized as part and parcel of a long black radical tradition that stretches back to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction , the text that initially opened up consideration of slave women’s breeding as “work” and of slave women’s protest against reproduction in bondage as an expression...

... the conditions that previously made the party form possible to be absent in the postindustrial capitalist core, we assess the political-economic data pointing toward whether such conditions might be present in emerging economies and thus whether these regions might be more conducive to such organizational forms...

... sciences thus provided the philosopher of biopower with a model for conceptualizing how power takes hold of life even at the “subindividual” level. The double helix gave Foucault not only a model for the imbrication of pleasure with power but also a biopolitical intuition about the molecularization of life...

... only as a black body. This is the objecthood that Fanon experiences as fixing him in the white gaze, and preempting him as an individual subject. Thus Fanon sees in the Lordship and Bondage (or master and slave) relation of G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology the life-endangering, yet life-affirming risk...

... in this, the largest and most cosmopolitan city of the former Confederacy. Postwar regulation made no racial distinctions among women in the trade, and prostitutes’ lives were thus often remarkably similar. Women worked and resided in the same parts of town, even on the same notorious block; faced similarly explosive...

.... In that way, I argue that Love is as much a commentary on the civil rights era as it is on the post-civil rights, 9/11 era in which it was published. Thus, I contend that Morrison’s project in Love is both about reconciling nostalgia with a recognition of the horrors of the past and about considering, albeit...

... subjected to and aligned with private and market reasoning. The exploitation of the common realm as a whole (both material and nonmaterial) thus constitutes the heart of capitalist accumulation and directs new waves of enclosures. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Berle Adolf...

...Verónica Gago This article proposes expanding the concept of extractivism beyond the critique of the reprimarization of Latin American economies and their dependency on commodities. Thus it focuses on the modes of financial penetration of Argentina’s popular sectors during the past decade linked...

... authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly straightforward mechanism was complicated by practical restrictions on the granting of temporary release, thus leading to “behaviorist...

... against the country’s present and past, the multitude has needed to face the fact that there are not many tools available for understanding the moment in which we live. Thus, combining a lot of creativity and courage, poor people, who have experienced a newfound social mobility and who have affirmed...

... with moralities of social responsibility in this new dispensation of corporate compassion. The result is the emergence of a vanguard of ART recipients, employees who depend on their corporate employers not only for their livelihood but for their very survival and thus are divided from society outside...

... with financial time. The legal judgment enacts a (temporary) pronunciation on derivative value, thus interrupting the continuous flow of circulation and contested valuation. The article discusses three elements that were central to the Tourre trial. First, it shows the derivative as a social relation...

... anyway; on the contrary, it is proposing a repoliticization similar to Hall's original intervention. Thus Moretti is effectively following up on Hall's own critique of the depoliticized cultural studies that came to dominate early cultural studies as well as literary studies. At stake, then, is not only...

... for everyone thus necessarily entails rethinking attitudes toward elimination as an aspect of our embodiment. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 bathroom access disgust gender toilet transgender References Ashenburg Katherine . 2007 . The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History . New...

... history, and each thus aims to represent the systemic changes in this history that anthropogenic climate change has brought about. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Anthropocene deep history niche construction feedforward fitness landscape References Boyd Robert Richerson Peter...

... by Fernand Braudel and his followers from the Annales School. The mental would be intermediarily located between the inorganic and the neural, thus helping to fill the gap between two opposed concepts of history that are both implied in the current redefinition of ecology. © 2017 Duke University Press...

... justice. This devastation was not, I argue, simply a product of a natural disaster: instead, shortsighted, corrupt, and racist policies in New Orleans prepared the terrain for the suffering that followed the storm. The still-unfolding tragedy in New Orleans thus demonstrates the extent to which human...

.... By acknowledging that those who read the letter, regardless of their race, are outside this direct exchange, Morrison creates a space in which the language of race can be disregarded because it is already known. Her audience is thus left to read race not as a series of identity categories but as an intimacy...

...Greig Charnock Urban public spaces have become focal points for mass uprisings and occupations. There is thus a significant spatial dimension to the movement against austerity. This article looks for clues to how to theorize the relation between space and “saying no” to austerity in the work...