imagined networks

.. what happens when friction doesn't move or rather tries to force one to move OUT (gun lobbyists have petitioned the US gov to depo...

I cant believe I didn't know about the Middle East Research and Information Project before. The shift from a efficiently coercive au...

"If only we were closer we would be as one"(138). Ahmed's turn to multiculturalism through the nationalist rhetoric of love...

Risk has been a topic of my day. My kitten was diagnosed with cancer yesterday and my mother almost  automatically  replied that she was the...

I benefited greatly from Berlant’s discussion of the concept of sovereignty in relation to the wearing out of community populations due ...

“The arrival of nationalism in a distinctively modern sense was tied to the political baptism of the lower classes. Although sometimes h...

Making up a post (or two) Throughout  Friction,  I kept coming back to the formal moves of the text and how they related to Tsing'...