Topics covered include queer worldmaking among Orthodox Jewish gays and lesbians in Israel; the religious lives of Latina and Black trans activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson; the importance of engaging trans and queer studies in religion during a time of antitrans and antiqueer legislation; nonsecular transfeminism in Turkey; and the ......
New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical ......
Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning
Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes. In DeepAesthetics, Anna Munster examines the range of more-than-human experiences this ......
In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Jaleh Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx's concept of prostitution-a conceptual device through which Marx allegorized modern labor-to think about the confluences of generalized and gendered labor in ......
The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate world as sea levels rise. Economic, academic, and activist stakeholders are increasingly focused on the unsettling potential of ice as they plan for a future ......
Topics cover the ways in which French and Francophone histories shape various themes, including transnational scientific exchange; technology and debates about modernity; gender in conceptions of mind, body, and disease; and the intersections of science and empire. Contributors. Margaret Carlyle, Zohar Sapir Dvir, Volny Fages, JErOme Lamy, ......
Marking the 500th anniversary of the end of the German Peasants' War, topics in this special issue include the war's intellectual and political legacy; Thomas MUEntzer as a historical, political, and theological figure; liberation theory; radical political movements in national and transnational context; and debates about utopia in critical theory ......
Focusing on South Korea's multiethnic and multiracial transformation in the twenty-first century, topics include the subsequent challenges to the deep-seated myth of monoethnic and monocultural nationhood and the adverse effect of reinforcing homogeneity by naturalizing the racialized boundaries among people from different backgrounds; the social ......
Topics include up-to-date analyses of Medicaid politics and policymaking as the program celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, covering racial disparities in health care, administrative burdens, partisan polarization, homelessness and safety net programs, and grassroots activism. Contributors. Andrea Louise Campbell, Rachel Fabi, Jose Figueroa, ......
