Photo by Glen E. Friedman [E]ven though it seems like Minor Threat looks kind of normal in its clothing, sitting on the front porch our last record, Salad Days, […] that was shocking. That revolutionary within punk scene, to be dressing down. -Jeff Nelson Punk upended music and fashion when burst onto popular culture landscape mid-1970s. Its provocative visual aesthetic—from album artwork fanzi...

This article advances a framework aimed at capturing the political life of ethical intensity by putting autonomist theory in resonance with ethnographic material pertaining to quietist Muslim milieus post-Soviet Russia. The emancipatory and prefigurative potential collective projects self-legislation – this case, ‘halal living’ are explored through notions form Rule/Law. It will be argued that ...

The earliest descriptions of Latin finger alphabets were recorded in southern Europe between 1579 and 1589. New literary and visual evidence for sixteenth-century Ottoman Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sign systems are presented and analyzed in this article. AlJāḥ iẓ (d. 869), a famous author of Arabic literature and theology in Abbasid-era Iraq, counted signs (in Arabic, ishārāt) among the five me...