This article investigates how colonial modernity frames not only the material development but also the psychic emergence of liberal subjectivity by reexamining Melanie Klein’s notions of reparation, a key concept in both psychoanalysis and political theory. The article reconsiders the … Continue reading “Colonial Object Relations”
Issue: Issue 126
Architekture and Teklife in the Hyperghetto: The Sonic Ecology of Footwork
Dhanveer Singh BrarAnalyzing “Footwork,” a form of electronic dance music local to South and West Chicago, and now also a major genre within the wider networks of dance music culture, this article presents an argument regarding the constitution of Footwork as black … Continue reading “Architekture and Teklife in the Hyperghetto: The Sonic Ecology of Footwork”
The Murder of Michael Brown: Reading the Ferguson Grand Jury Transcript
Nicholas MirzoeffBased on a full reading of the transcript of the grand jury hearings concerning the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on 9 August 2014, this article uses the transcript as an archive to demonstrate how the informal systems … Continue reading “The Murder of Michael Brown: Reading the Ferguson Grand Jury Transcript”
A Little Grave [photograph]
Nadia SeremetakisDeath Drives in the City; or, On a Third-Stream Anamnesis
Nadia SeremetakisThe story at hand is the spread of little street memorials for the dead in the Greek urbanscape during the current socioeconomic crisis. These memorials point to a third-stream anamnesis: memory focused on the historicity of the everyday that the … Continue reading “Death Drives in the City; or, On a Third-Stream Anamnesis”