This essay explores hip hop produced by Palestinian youth within the 1948 borders of Israel, a site that reveals some of the most acute contradictions of nationalism, citizenship, and settler colonialism. It focuses primarily on the pioneering Palestinian hip-hop group … Continue reading “Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent”
Issue: Issue 112 Fall 2012
Staging Palestine in France-Algeria: Popular Theater and the Politics of Transcolonial Comparison
Olivia HarrisonThe ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as … Continue reading “Staging Palestine in France-Algeria: Popular Theater and the Politics of Transcolonial Comparison”
What Happened to the Motley Crew?: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
Laura HarrisWhat happened to “the motley crew,” the mobile, insurgent, creative social formation, crossing racial, gender and generational lines, that historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker identify as a crucial counterforce within the consolidation of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern state? … Continue reading “What Happened to the Motley Crew?: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness”
Anti-Oedipus, Kinship, and the Subject of Affect: Reading Fanon with Deleuze and Guattari
Amber Jamilla MusserThis essay reads Frantz Fanon and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari together based on their critiques of an Oedipal model of kinship. Though they have divergent reasons for rejecting this structure, merging these discourses brings into relief their overlapping interest … Continue reading “Anti-Oedipus, Kinship, and the Subject of Affect: Reading Fanon with Deleuze and Guattari”
Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human”
Megan GlickFrom the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and the lay public alike labored to reconcile contemporary racial hierarchies with the possibility of a universal African birthplace. Previous historical treatments of this phenomenon have … Continue reading “Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human””
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Anna McCarthyA narrative of catastrophic thinking, told through a relationship with a thing.