Sublime

none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9

how to hold in a single frame the belief in our shared humanity and enlightenment

Since Brecht, this discomfort with proximity has assumed a specifically political dimension within ideological criticism: the naive spectator, drawn too close to the text emotionally, loses the ability to resist

attachment, identification photos are not produced at the desire of their sitters. They are images required of or imposed upon them by empire, science, or the state. The unexceptional format of identification photos and the routinized nature of bureaucratic images frequently lead to a failure to read or a blanket dismissal of them altogether, as we

The local can mean human scale, a scale on which people can be heard, make a difference, understand the dynamics of power and hold it accountable—a democratizing impulse.

rooted in group Supremacy.

Is the criminologist’s job to resolve legal and cultural ambiguities, simply to acknowledge them—or sometimes even to celebrate them?

powers of public surveillance and censorship while government powers are increasingly soliciting private data.

disability not as an individual defect but as the product of social injustice,