Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation
Author: Mark Rifkin File Type: pdf In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. Against efforts to subsume varied forms of resistance into a single framework in the name of solidarity, Rifkin argues that Black and Indigenous political struggles are oriented in distinct ways, following their own lines of development and contestation. Rifkin suggests how movement between the two can be approached as something of a speculative leap in which the terms and dynamics of one are disoriented in the encounter with the other. Futurist fiction provides a compelling site for exploring such disjunctions. Through analyses of works by Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, Nalo Hopkinson, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, and others, the book illustrates how ideas about fungibility, fugitivity, carcerality, marronage, sovereignty, placemaking, and governance shape the ways Black and Indigenous intellectuals narrate the past, present, and future. In turning to speculative fiction, Rifkin illustrates how speculation as a process provides conceptual and ethical resources for recognizing difference while engaging across it.
Author: Jonathan Sarfati
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Richard Dawkins, the undisputed high priest of evolutionatheism, says his book The Greatest Show on Earth the evidence for evolution is the first time he has presented all the evidence for evolutionlong ages. It is promoted as an unanswerable demolition of creation. Scientist, logician, chessmaster and author of the worlds biggest-selling creationist book, CMIs Dr Jonathan Sarfati, relentlessly demolishes Dawkins claims point-by-point, showing biblical creation makes more sense of the evidence. A must-readand a must-give (to all evolutionist acquaintances)! (High SchoolAdult) 336 pages.
Author: Mark Fuhrman
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*Three months on the New York Times bestseller list*Twenty years ago, America was captivated by the awful drama of the O.J. Simpson trial. The Simpson Dream Team legal defense had a seemingly impossible task convincing a jury that their client, a man the whole country had watched flee from police, was innocent of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In order for O.J. Simpson to get away with murder, the defense attorneys had to destroy the reputation of Mark Fuhrman, a brilliant Los Angeles detective who knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that O.J. Simpson was guilty. Now Fuhrman tells his side of the story in a damning expose that reveals why and how Simpsons prosecution was bungled. With Fuhrmans own hand-drawn maps of the crime scene and his reconstruction of the murders, Murder in Brentwood is the book that sets the record straight about what happened on June 12, 1994and reveals why the O.J. Simpson trial was such a catastrophe.httpwww.archive.orgdetailsmurderinbrentwoo00fuhr
Author: Richard H. Davis
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Stanley Lombardos new verse translation of the most famous free-standing sequence from the great Indian epicThe Mahabharatahews closely to the meaning, verse structure, and performative quality of the original and is invigorated by its judicious incorporation of key Sanskrit terms in transliteration, for which a glossary is also provided. The translation is accompanied by Richard H. Davis brilliant Introduction and Afterword. The latter, Krishna on Modern Fields of Battle, offers a fascinating look at the illuminating role the poem has played in the lives and struggles of a few of the most accomplished figures in recent world history.**ReviewLucid, detailed, and erupting with fearsome visions, theBhagavad Gitahas baffled English-language translators for 250 years. Stanley Lombardo is the first to recognize that at its root the SanskritGitawas oral performance. Beyond word and meaning, past nuance or doctrine, Lombardo restores the archaic tradition of voice and conch shell. When you read this edition aloud the hair on your neck will stand up. Add a drum and its a performance. A grand old culture comes to life. Both essays by Richard Davis are superb, placing theGitain historical context, back then, and more recently. Andrew Schelling,Naropa University. Author ofLove and the Turning Seasons Indias Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic LongingAbout the AuthorStanley Lombardois Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Kansas. Richard H. Davisis Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College.
Author: Olivia C. Harrison
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Transcolonial Maghreb offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Arguing that Palestine has become the figure par excellence of the colonial in the purportedly postcolonial present, the book reframes the field of Maghrebi studies to account for transversal political and aesthetic exchanges across North Africa and the Middle East. Olivia C. Harrison examines and contextualizes writings by the likes of Abdellatif Laabi, Kateb Yacine, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Albert Memmi, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Derrida, and Edmond El Maleh, covering a wide range of materials that are, for the most part, unavailable in English translation popular theater, literary magazines, television series, feminist texts, novels, essays, unpublished manuscripts, letters, and pamphlets written in the three main languages of the MaghrebArabic, French, and Berber. The result has wide implications for the study of transcolonial relations across the Global South. **Review Closely engaged with a vast body of literary texts, Transcolonial Maghreb is timely and greatly informative. It offers an important theoretical contribution to postcolonial studies.Gil Hochberg, University of California, Los Angeles About the Author Olivia C. Harrison is Assistant Professor of French and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California.
Author: Noam Chomsky
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Described by a UN fact finding mission as ?a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, Israels Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the IsraelPalestine conflict. Chomsky and Pappe survey the fallout from Israels conduct in Gaza and place it in historical context. Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.The New York Times Book ReviewIlan Pappe is Israels bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.John PilgerDescribed by a UN fact-finding mission as a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population, Israels Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the IsraelPalestine conflict.In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, two of the issues most insightful and prominent critical voices, survey the fallout from Israels conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israels longstanding occupation of Palestine.Noam Chomsky is one of the worlds foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of Failed States and Hegemony or Survival, both New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.Ilan Pappe is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre, and a longtime political activist. He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.**
Author: Claudia Lehmann
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p Segoe UI, serif 13pxspan smallIn the Italian theory and practice of art of the Renaissance, the term chiaroscuro primarily refers to the articulation of sculptural qualities, i.e. depth or rilievo. In this context, rilievo refers to an innovative design principle, which replaces the inherent value of medieval chromatic shading with achromatic shades. By contrast, paintings and graphic art in the northern Alpine region tended to create the depth in the surface of objects by using light-dark effects. Based on this comparison, the book deals with chiaroscuro as an aesthetic principle, which should be understood as the key signature of European art history as a whole between 1300 and 1600.spanp Segoe UI, serif 13px**p Segoe UI, serif 13pxIn der italienischen Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie der Renaissance bezieht sich der Terminus chiaroscuro in erster Linie auf die Artikulation plastischer Werte, auf das Formulieren eines rilievo. Rilievo meint hier ein innovatives Gestaltungsprinzip, das den Eigenwert der mittelalterlichen Buntfarbe durch den Darstellungswert unbunter Farbtone ersetzt. Malerei und Graphik tendierten im nordalpinen Raum hingegen dazu, mittels des Helldunkel die Oberflachenbeschaffenheit von Materialien zu evozieren. Aus dieser komparativen Perspektive erfasst der Band das Helldunkel als asthetisches Prinzip, das als zentrale Signatur der gesamteuropaischen Kunstgeschichte zwischen 1300 und 1600 zu verstehen ist. p Segoe UI, serif 13px
Author: Julie Y. Chu
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Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor her knowledge of the deadly risks in transit and the exploitative labor conditions abroad. The sense of imminent departure enchants her every move and overshadows the banalities of her present life. In this engrossing ethnographic account of how the Fuzhounese translate their desires for mobility into projects worth pursuing, Julie Y. Chu focuses on Fuzhounese efforts to recast their social horizons beyond the limitations of peasant life in China. Transcending utilitarian questions of risks and rewards, she considers the overflow of aspirations in the Fuzhounese pursuit of transnational destinations. Chu attends not just to the migration of bodies, but also to flows of shipping containers, planes, luggage, immigration papers, money, food, prayers, and gods. By analyzing the intersections and disjunctures of these various flows, she explains how mobility operates as a sign embodied through everyday encounters and in the transactions of persons and things.ReviewJulie Chus ambitious ethnography provides a captivating description of contemporary Chinese peoples desire for mobility. . . . Cosmologies of Credit is daunting in scope and provides numerous insights for scholars interested in contemporary Chinese migration practice. . . . It is a major contribution to the fields both of migration and of China studies, and demonstrates the continued relevance of anthropological approaches to Chinas place in a globalized era. - Jamie Coates, The China Journal. . . [A] remarkably rich, sensitive ethnographic account. . . . Chu convincingly challenges conventional conceptions of place and displacement in the social analysis of migration and diaspora. - Jing Shao, Asian AnthropologyCosmologies of Credit is a rich ethnography of migration that describes departures rather than arrivals, debts to gods that loom as large as debts to humans, and the lived experience of mobility without movement. Julie Y. Chu provides wonderfully subtle renderings of passionate and painful longings not to be left behind. One of the most astute and beautifully written ethnographies about China, Cosmologies of Credit is a pleasure to read.Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public CultureIn this vivid account of Fuzhounese villagers strenuous efforts to realize their own cosmopolitan mobility as undocumented, smuggled persons, Julie Y. Chu connects architecture, spirit money, the politics of destination, and the cosmology of value. As she convincingly argues, mobility is the modern feature of modernity, and the real is always in motion.Tani Barlow, Rice UniversityAbout the AuthorJulie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Author: Terton Drime Kunga
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-A new biography of Yeshe Tsogyal, the mother of Buddhism in Tibet, who is considered an enlightened being by millions throughout the Himalayan region as well as the West and remains a powerful female role model of spiritual accomplishment and perfection. This secret life story of Yeshe Tsogyal presents a valuable and unique perspective that is quite a departure from any other account of this remarkable woman. Described as a secret life story, its many layers include an outer account--detailing her birth, family, and societal constraints--an inner account that begins as she meets and escapes captivity with Guru Rinpoche, and a secret account as she enters twelve years of retreat at Chimpu only to miraculously journey to Oddiyana. The role of women and womanhood is notable throughout her life story. Her desire for independence is at odds with her desirability as a woman, leading to numerous tragic incidents early in life. Finally meeting Guru Rinpoche, she decries her status as a woman. This sort of gendered humility, a recurring theme, is juxtaposed with her assertion that despite being a woman, and low-born (skye ba dman), she has a high regard for herself anyway. It is a magical woman who guides her to Oddiyana, and her travels there are filled with primarily female companions. In the end, she remains Guru Rinpoches primary disciple and doctrinal custodian. Her experiences, while perhaps intense and fantastical, include the same elements of challenge, learning, and progress that all practitioners must experience. During her adventures in Oddiyana, Yeshe Tsogyal receives the same core teachings on faith, impermanence, and fortitude that are essential for anyone following this spiritual path. The story concludes with lists of teachings received and Guru Rinpoches prophecies for her and other disciples. Among his disciples, Yeshe Tsogyal recounted this life story to Ben-de Sangye Yeshe, who is later reincarnated as Treasure-Revealer Drime Kunga, who revealed this text---
Author: Anne E. Gorsuch
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In the Khrushchev era, Soviet citizens were newly encouraged to imagine themselves exploring the medieval towers of Tallinns Old Town, relaxing on the Romanian Black Sea coast, even climbing the Eiffel Tower. By the mid 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens each year crossed previously closed Soviet borders to travel abroad. All this is your World explores the revolutionary integration of the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural exchange in which a de-Stalinizing Soviet Union increasingly, if anxiously, participated in the transnational circulation of people, ideas, and items. Anne E. Gorsuch examines what it meant to be Soviet in a country no longer defined as Stalinist. All this is your World offers a new perspective on our view of the European continent as a whole by probing the Soviet Unions relationship with both eastern and western Europe using archival materials from Russia, Estonia, Hungary, Great Britain, and the United States. Beginning with a domestic tour of the Soviet Union in late Stalinism, the book moves outwards in concentric circles to consider travel to the inner abroad of Estonia, to the near abroad of eastern Europe, and to the capitalist West, finally returning home again with a discussion of Soviet films about tourism.