... Our Art.” In Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean , edited by Richardson Michael and translated by Fijałkowski Krzysztof Richardson Michael , 105 – 11 . London : Verso . John E. Drabinski Césaire’s Apocalyptic Word The postcolonial...

...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...

...Thomas L. Dumm 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Thomas L. Dumm George W. Bush and the F-Word When is it appropriate to use the f-word? That is, if we encounter a regime that achieves power illegitimately...

... addresses Augustine's preoccupation in the Confessions with the relationship between language and thought, between the technical “death,” or “dying,” of language. In Augustine's Confessions considerable heft is assigned to the word and, in key moments, to the syllable, and this essay traces, shall we say...

...V. Y. Mudimbe Looking at texts in everyday life might seem an effort in both detachment and critical indifference. But, is it really? Texts deliver their visibility in the contrasts spelled out by a grammar in which qualities and functions depend on word orders and the intervention of prepositions...

... New York City, this essay offers a reflection on how queer migrant “mismeasures” and “disorder” are openings and opportunities for alternative ways of being and surviving. In other words, the essay asserts that the failure to domesticate and tame the unpredictable queer migrant is itself a way out of...

...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...

... significant empirically grounded effort to understand what had happened, how, and why. Over three months, sixty journalists and researchers interviewed hundreds of those who had participated in the riots; they collected and analyzed more than 1.3 million words of first-hand testimonies. Paul Lewis, the...

... terms of the elaboration of privatized forms of care. In other words, infant sleep both continues to fall within the parameters of child welfare and is subject to an explosion in techniques made possible by the problematization of infant sleep itself. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 capitalism...

...Jennifer L. Culbert; Austin Sarat The essays in this issue, “Killing States: Lethal Decisions/Final Judgments,” reflect on the exercise of state violence and the decisions taken to employ its lethal force. In so doing, these essays raise questions about our “state” in the broadest sense of the word...

... example, while at the same time, the New Sanctuary Movement has revived the 1980s' faith-based activist network that provides shelter to refugees in danger of deportation. Both compassion and rage rely on proximity to one's home, in all senses of the word: familial, local, and national. When does the face...

... essay argues, given that academic freedom is not a constitutional right, but on the contrary depends on the public's goodwill, a goodwill that is perpetually at stake in struggles over common sense such as the struggle staged in Smart People . In other words, academics who want to defend their academic...

... perceptions we can better understand action in several senses of the word. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Rei Terada The Frailty of the Ontic There’s no such thing as ontology on the whole—or even “leftist ontology,” as Carsten...

... sense, we suggest that in the claims of platform cooperativism, the platform-firm no longer appears as a group of assets that are already owned, but as an institution in which ownership corresponds to governance. In other words, ownership is understood as an institutional arrangement intended to govern...

... not only the stories the films tell about these historical junctures but also the way they implicate or fail to implicate themselves and their audience in those stories; in other words, the depth of the self-scrutiny they propose and the incisiveness of their diagnosis of the Left. Paying special...

... a way that illuminates the party’s more visible words and public actions and explains why their “revolutionary art” resonates into the twenty-first century. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Emory Douglas Black Panther 1968 References Allen Gwen . 2013 . “ Design as a Social...

...Marina Sitrin Since the end of 2010, millions of people around the globe have been taking to the streets in cities, towns, and villages—assembling in plazas and occupying parks, buildings, homes, and schools. This new wave of movement is both revolutionary in the day-to-day sense of the word and...

... is within these movements that new horizons of visibility—new concepts—have been produced, forcing us to rethink the relation between philosophy and social movements and, alternatively, to propose a philosophy of social movements. In other words, this essay concludes by foregrounding the following...

... biopolitical economy cannot be gauged by standard measures. The role of finance, in part, is to create quantitative measures for goods whose values are fundamentally immeasurable. There is a strange correspondence, in other words, between biopolitical production and the operations of finance. The second...

... and also ever rejoices at the brink of Easter. Or, in other words, the soul ‘‘walk[s] in darkness’’ of Good Friday renunciations and, paradoxically, also...