By Brent Hayes Edwards and Anna McCarthy
Issue: Issue 094
On (Our) American Ground: Caribbean-Latino-Diasporic Cultural Production and the Postnational "Guantanamera"
ricardo ortiz“On (Our) American Ground” traces the relevant genealogies, and itineraries, of a song and a site whose various symbolic and practical constructions have helped to determine what a transnational American historical past can allow us to imagine of a postnational … Continue reading “On (Our) American Ground: Caribbean-Latino-Diasporic Cultural Production and the Postnational "Guantanamera"”
When Home Is a Camp: Global Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Internally Displaced Persons
kalpana rahita seshadriAnalyses of globalization usually ignore the category of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to focus instead on transnational migrants. This essay argues that a close look at the humanitarian conceptualization of IDPs provides an understanding of the operations of global sovereignty. … Continue reading “When Home Is a Camp: Global Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Internally Displaced Persons”
Tonal Disturbances: Works on Paper by Jenny Perlin and Visible Collective
Susette MinThis selection of recent artwork explores the disquieting and overwhelming silence regarding those who have disappeared and been detained since 9/11. Through music and drawing, low-tech art and text, artists Jenny Perlin and Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen and Aimara Lin question … Continue reading “Tonal Disturbances: Works on Paper by Jenny Perlin and Visible Collective”
Neoliberalism, Activism, and HIV/AIDS in Postapartheid South Africa
deborah mindryThe transition to democracy in South Africa promised a new equitable social order that would be responsive to the needs of “the people.” These hopes were very quickly eclipsed by a transition to neoliberalism and by the HIV/AIDS crisis. An … Continue reading “Neoliberalism, Activism, and HIV/AIDS in Postapartheid South Africa”
Immune Communities, Common Immunities
ed cohenThis essay focuses on the controversy incited by Thabo Mbeki’s comments at the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference, held in Durban in 2000, which unleashed a deluge of opprobrium that has inundated the South African president since then. By analyzing the … Continue reading “Immune Communities, Common Immunities”
The Daughter's Exchange in Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood
eun kyung minThe two most dominant twentieth-century theorizations about the exchange of daughters are Freudian psychoanalysis, which theorizes the psychic, libidinal exchange performed by the daughter of the mother for the father, and Lévi-Straussian anthropology, which theorizes the exchange of the daughter … Continue reading “The Daughter's Exchange in Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood”
British Troops Conduct Counter Taliban Operations
mario de lauro“British Troops Conduct Counter Taliban Operations,” Mario Di Lauro. Courtesy Getty Images.
Free Time: Overwork as an Ontological Condition
paul silversteinFree Time is a collection of collaboratively written experimental prose fragments on topics primarily involving labor and leisure. The form of the project (Denkbilder) is taken from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Included in this selection is a theorization of … Continue reading “Free Time: Overwork as an Ontological Condition”