Duke University Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/duke-university-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Duke University Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/duke-university-press/ 32 32 Borders Are War by Other Means https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-are-war-by-other-means-chaar-lopez/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:09:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60901 The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

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]]> With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere https://www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tech-the-border-is-everywhere/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60540 Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.

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]]> The Future of Tech: Black Boxes or Clear Communication? https://www.publicbooks.org/the-future-of-tech-black-boxes-or-clear-communication/ Tue, 27 May 2025 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59769 To optimize what’s happening in the world of digital technology, we’ve got to understand the unspoken rules of that world.

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]]> What Works: Lessons on Fighting Oppression and Building Power From Across the Globe https://www.publicbooks.org/what-works-lessons-on-fighting-oppression-and-building-power-from-across-the-globe/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56793 When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?

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]]> Can Literature Cure Law? Should It? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-literature-cure-law-should-it/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55408 The two disciplines, law and literature, may converge creatively, part amicably, and go their ways dispensing their respective forms of redress.

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]]> “Living in and as Refusal”: Eric Stanley on Anti-Trans/Queer Violence https://www.publicbooks.org/living-in-and-as-refusal-eric-stanley-on-anti-trans-queer-violence/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54886 “While ungovernability takes many paths, here it approximates living in and as refusal.”

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]]> Crossings into Indigenous Palestine https://www.publicbooks.org/crossings-into-indigenous-palestine/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54328 “If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, “Their oil would become tears.”

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]]> Where is the Archive, Anyway?: A Conversation about Empire and Filipinx Studies https://www.publicbooks.org/where-is-the-archive-anyway-a-conversation-about-empire-and-filipinx-studies/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53799 “I love the moments where your books really linger on their encounters with power.”

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]]> “Remaindered Life”: Durba Mitra in Conversation with Neferti Tadiar https://www.publicbooks.org/remaindered-life-durba-mitra-in-conversation-with-neferti-tadiar/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:00:41 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53637 “The survival of the world depends on the gendered work of subsistence and reproduction, carried out predominantly by women in the global South.”

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]]> Heal Thyself? https://www.publicbooks.org/heal-thyself/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53289 How do current social and political arrangements limit our opportunities for feeling better?

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