... journey from Senegal to Italy and bears witness to the discrimination he faces there. Mademba’s testimony responds to duress , which Ann Stoler defines as the “colonial entailments” that shape contemporary spaces, institutions, and relations. Produced by a small Tuscan press, the memoir circulates via...

... : Verso . ———. 1980b . “Reconciliation under Duress.” In Aesthetics and Politics , by Adorno Theodor Benjamin Walter Bloch Ernst Brecht Bertolt Lukács Georg , 151 – 76 . London : Verso . ———. 1991 . “The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel.” In Notes...

... story of expulsion from East Africa, that duress and demonization are not limited to the imperial centers of the North. Despite the overwhelming traffic in people, the stories of the girmit (the rural Hindi pronunciation of agreement or indentured contract in the Fijian context) in the agricultural...

..., “I’m so sorry to hear that,” or “When is your sentence over?” assuming off the bat that it’s onerous, it’s unrewarding, it’s duty performed under duress or under a certain kind of moral obligation. I am not a fan of such discourse about chairing. My own feeling is that it’s...

... outside of sovereignty but also outside politics’ obsessive auto-immunitarian duress. On this score, Giorgio Agamben speaks of a politics of “pure means,” which is a suggestive formula but also very indeterminate. One could speak as well of a politics of pure finality...

..., for a day, but you have to get it to us by nine o’clock tomorrow. So that was completely weird. You want to talk about writing under duress. Then, for the next six or eight months, I didn’t write anything, of course. Jamie was way too precarious and I only got back into things in 92, once we were...