Dissects the post 9/11 symbiosis between the state and private security firms, and its basis: the conviction that uncertainties-devastation by terrorist attack, financial market collapse-must be discerned and preempted, however unlikely they may be.
Putting the work of Henri Lefebvre, William James, and John Dewey in conversation with dance theorists, Derek P. McCormack reflects on how bodies both move in and generate affective spaces.
Foreign Front describes the activism that took place in West Germany in the 1960s when more than 10,000 students from Asia, Latin America, and... Læs mere
Comparative case studies reveal the multiple relations between psychoanalysis and globalization, showing how imperial ideologies were incorporated into early psychoanalytic theory, and how psychoanalysis has been reconfigured to critique imperialism.
An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure.
Esra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.
Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. This book traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a contextualized perspective.
Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval... Læs mere
Moving Stones examines the groundbreaking work and life of Black and Ojibwe sculptor Edmonia Lewis through a queer and Black feminist lens, offering a rich biographical, historical, and theoretical exploration of her art, identity, and enduring influence.