Black Bodies, White Subjects: Modernist Authenticities and Anxieties in the Avant-Garde Film Borderline

I examine the movie Borderline in its attempt to create a language of the body. Borderline was a collaborate project of the Pool group, which included director Kenneth Macpherson, the poet H. D., and her partner Bryher. Both H. D. and Bryher star in the film, along with African American singer and actor Paul Robeson. I read Borderline as a work which parallels modernist literary experiments, for instance the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Amy Lowell.1 This experimentalism is related to the problem of authenticity, which modernist authors often associate with the materiality of the body. The movie, as I will show in the following discussion, works with two different, intersecting notions of authenticity. On the one hand, it locates authenticity in the material body, especially the black body of its star Paul Robeson. On the other hand, it emphasizes the materiality of the medium itself.

Black Bodies, White Subjects: Modernist Authenticities and Anxieties in the Avant-Garde Film Borderline

I examine the movie Borderline in its attempt to create a language of the body. Borderline was a collaborate project of the Pool group, which included director Kenneth Macpherson, the poet H. D., and her partner Bryher. Both H. D. and Bryher star in the film, along with African American singer and actor Paul Robeson. I read Borderline as a work which parallels modernist literary experiments, for instance the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Amy Lowell.1 This experimentalism is related to the problem of authenticity, which modernist authors often associate with the materiality of the body. The movie, as I will show in the following discussion, works with two different, intersecting notions of authenticity. On the one hand, it locates authenticity in the material body, especially the black body of its star Paul Robeson. On the other hand, it emphasizes the materiality of the medium itself.

Creating an ownership society? Social security reform and the temporalities of libertarian rhetoric

Former US president George W. Bush’s idea of the United States as an ‘ownership society’ can be considered as the rhetorical apex of a conservative, libertarian push for a more market- driven restructuring of American social institutions. Reformers in the Bush administration particularly targeted Social Security, a popular American institution and signature achievement of the New Deal era, aiming to replace a system of solidarity with one of individual responsibility and partial privatization. Returning to the time of the early 2000s, this article analyzes the rhetoric of the ownership society as a libertarian utopian social vision – a future, more perfect community the United States should aspire to grow into. It argues that the political discourse on Social Security propagated by the Bush administration relied on rhetorical strategies characterized by an engagement of temporalities. On the one hand, ownership discourse invoked the nation’s past achievements and traditional values secured during the American Revolution and guaranteed in the nation’s founding documents. On the other hand, the administration framed the alleged urgency of the reforms by making projections about the future and using these to raise questions about the present system of Social Security provision. In this way, earlier debates over Social Security reform provide a valuable perspective on the contemporary nexus of finance and temporality

Spoken Art: Amy Lowell's Dramatic Poetry and Early Twentieth-Century Expressive Culture

This essay rereads Amy Lowell's dramatic poetry, which has been unduly neglected in literary criticism. Setting the poems in relation to high modernism as well as to the contemporary expressive culture movement—a movement emphasizing the role of the individual in the act of communication—it argues that Lowell's poetry has to be reconsidered as a spoken art

Tools to Toys: American Dissected Maps and Geographic Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Mayar M. Tools to Toys: American Dissected Maps and Geographic Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. In: Sielke S, Klöckner C, Knewitz. S, eds. Knowledge Landscapes North America. Heidelberg: Universität-Verlag Winter; 2016: 99-118

REPOSITÓRIO INSTITUCIONAL DE TRABALHOS ACADÊMICOS DOS SERVIDORES DA SECRETARIA DA FAZENDA DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL: UM RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA

Os desafios da elaboração do Repositório Institucional de trabalhos acadêmicos dos servidores da Secretaria da Fazenda do Rio Grande do Sul respeitando as particularidades apresentadas visando a contribuição para as pesquisas fazendárias. Para desenvolver o sistema em Microsoft SharePoint teve a colaboração de três áreas: a biblioteca e a comunicação interna para as necessidades informacionais - geração, armazenagem e fluxos - e a área de tecnologia para o desenvolvimento e manutenção do sistema