...Ian Duncan 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Ian Duncan Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a...

...Matthew Engelke Studies on religion in philosophy and the human sciences have been focusing increasingly on the relationship between religion and media. In much of this work, a key concern has been to understand what constitutes mediation and, concomitantly, the lure of immediacy that drives some...

...Michael Naas Jacques Derrida died more than five years ago now, but his work keeps on coming out and, in the case of his work on photography, keeps on developing . While three important works on photography were published in English during Derrida's lifetime (“The Deaths of Roland Barthes” [1981...

... invites us to consider how movements against educational privatization might be remolded to the extent that we adequately value—rather than disavow—the work of care that sustains our opposition to the spaces and times of neoliberalism. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y...

... rights reserved. Lisa Adkins Out of Work or Out of Time? Rethinking Labor after the Financial Crisis Introduction T​ he recent global financial crisis and subsequent recession sparked, among other things, a call for...

...Kalindi Vora Affective and biological labor such as that found in call center and surrogacy work are indices of new forms of exploitation and accumulation within neoliberal globalization, but they also rearticulate a longer historical colonial division of labor. In this essay, feminist materialist...

... Work: Countering Neoliberal Labor Market Regulation . . . from the Bottom Up? Introduction: Growing Unequal ​Economic growth is not what it used to be— especially for workers employed at the bottom of...

... uncertainty for journalists, intersecting with neoliberal enterprise culture and the spread of digital technologies to promote an ideology that masks the precarious nature of contemporary media work. The article considers the work of freelance journalists in historical context and argues that the discourse of...

...Franco Barchiesi In twentieth-century South African history, from the consolidation of a racially hierarchical social order to the country's transition to democracy, ideologies and policies linking work to welfare have defined the precarious predicament of blackness in highly specific ways...

...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; Rachel Silvey Domestic workers comprise the largest group of female migrant workers today, and they are among the most precarious workers internationally. This article explores the aspects of the organization of domestic work that contribute to keeping it an insecure...

...Paul Apostolidis This essay reflects on the ways migrant day laborers advance a politics oriented toward the refusal of work. It identifies both impediments and tendencies conducive to such a politics by examining Latino migrant day laborers’ commentaries on their work searches on street corners as...

...Patrick Bond 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Patrick Bond South Africa Tackles Global Apartheid: Is the Reform Strategy Working? Against ‘‘Global Apartheid The most intractable problem that contempo- rary...

...Berni Searle Humanity ceaselessly seeks sites of refuge and reference points for values in territories offering possibilities for identifications and putting down roots. It is within this context that I would like to consider the relationship among three bodies of my work, namely, Seeking Refuge...

..., lives, and imaginaries. The present figures as a moment of sensory attunement, orienting people toward one another and to the region's past even as they work toward another future. Care for the well-being of people and place takes shape across sensory and affective registers that include the experience...

...Rei Terada “Working through” would seem to be the crux of psychoanalysis. It is the collective name for the processes by which, despite itself, resistance gives way. Cumulatively, moments of unknotted resistance account for larger psychic change where it has been stalled —for, by definition, where...

... Muslim world, who, working in the diverse region that encompasses North Africa, the Middle East, and western and southern Asia between 1955 and 1975, contributed to a movement that transformed calligraphy into modern art. Mostly without direct knowledge of each other's work, El Salahi in the Sudan...

...Leticia Veloso This essay is based on extensive fieldwork with marginalized children and other working children in Rio de Janeiro, conducted in two favelas and on the streets of four different neighborhoods. Specifically, my research focused on how particular children try to earn a living on the...

...Mark B. N. Hansen This essay stages an encounter between Michel Foucault’s work—especially his final thought concerning biopolitics, security, and population—and contemporary theorization of media’s experiential impact. The essay argues that the opportunity for such an encounter has been obscured...

...Miranda Joseph This essay explores how the entrepreneurial university works and how we work in it. It examines the role of our own attachments to and investments in its sustenance as well as how we work, or might work, with, in, and against its temporalities, shaped as they have been by...

...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...