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The Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets
The purpose of this article is to identify a few of the forms in which natural gas forecasters and the consulting firms they work for become partly responsible for new energy development on a local and global scale. These firms combine technical pred…Economy of Speed: The New Narco-Capitalism
Maybe users achieve pure speed when they finally resort to self-consumption. Prisoners desperate for a fix vie for a shot of any new convict’s urine and eat the scabs on the wounds they’ve inflicted on themselves when they were high and scratching away…Keith Haring and Queer Xerography
Haring does copy a particular aspect of working-class black and Latino populations, and this is precisely his aesthetic and political point. The subway graffiti prints should be seen as part and parcel of the artist’s larger argument with late-1970s…A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience: Questions of Authenticity and the Politics of Translation
How might we characterize the competing loyalties and claims to authenticity in India’s contemporary multilingual literary field? This essay argues that postcolonial English has come to have less to do with the relationship between colonizer and colo…Enclosure and Disclosure
Various modes of enclosure may be seen as both the condition and consequence of disclosure. That is, knowledge of and power over any given domain is both facilitated by and productive of various forms of enclosure. And, in this vein, ethnography has a…