Since March 2006, Duke University has found itself in the midst of a media storm generated initially by the allegations and later felony charges of rape and sexual offense against three student athletes. The accuser was a town resident hired … Continue reading “In the Afterlife of the Duke Case”
Issue: Issue 093
Reality Television: a Neoliberal Theater of Suffering
Anna McCarthyLast year, The Smoking Gun, a Web site owned by the Court TV network, procured and published an internal memorandum from the producers of the reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It outlined in shocking detail the kinds of contestants … Continue reading “Reality Television: a Neoliberal Theater of Suffering”
Biocommunicability: The Neoliberal Subject and Its Contradictions in News Coverage of Health Issues
charles l. briggsHow does one inhabit the mediated body? Biopolitics and biosociality form crucial loci for exploring contemporary subjectivities, rationalities, technologies, forms of embodiment, forms of care for the “self,” and schemes of self-surveillance and self-regulation.1 Recent scholarship suggests that biopolitics and … Continue reading “Biocommunicability: The Neoliberal Subject and Its Contradictions in News Coverage of Health Issues”
Writing into a Void Representing: Slavery and Freedom in the Narrative of Colonial Spanish America
hermann bennettThis essay engages the making of black identities under colonial Spanish American slavery, thereby confronting a set of questions related to the meaning and representation of blackness, still a reigning concern of my intellectual generation though many believe it belongs … Continue reading “Writing into a Void Representing: Slavery and Freedom in the Narrative of Colonial Spanish America”
Urban Transculturations
priscilla archibaldThe statistics at this point are familiar. Since the 1960s, the world’s population has doubled in size, a growth that is for the most part urban and that occurs in the developing world at three times the rate as in … Continue reading “Urban Transculturations”
Freedom from Transculturation: A Response to Priscill a Archibald
alberto moreirasWhy do replicants hate being replicants in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner? Is it because of their fear of mortality, given their built-in reduced lifespan (“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it means to be a … Continue reading “Freedom from Transculturation: A Response to Priscill a Archibald”
A Response to Alberto Moreiras
priscilla archibaldThe pivotal and most potentially productive point in Alberto Moreiras’s critique of my essay strikes me as his call for “some basic kind of oldfashioned Marxism.” This, he suggests, would be the appropriate approach to my example of the Peruvian … Continue reading “A Response to Alberto Moreiras”