affect, 9, 127, 130–131, 132, 191, 193
Althusser, Louis, 57, 59, 142, 198n12
American studies, 6–7; in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 8, 40, 46, 47–56; 66–68; and the nation-state, 7, 39, 41–43, 49, 56; and neocitizenship, 40–41, 57–58, 61
American Studies Association, 56
American Studies Center at Baku State University, 48, 55
American Studies Center at Tbilisi State University, 48
American Studies Department at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), 48, 55, 67, 198n7
American University of Central Asia, 46, 48, 55, 67, 197n3, 198n7
Badiou, Alain, 206n10
Baker, Houston, 199n6
Battlestar Galactica, 9–10, 103–131, 133–134, 200n1, 200n3, 201n5, 201n6, 201n11; compared to Caprica, 201n8; compared to Star Trek the Next Generation, 201n9
Beatty, Paul: and “Black Humor,” 70; and The Sellout, 199n3; and The White Boy Shuffle, 8–9, 69–70, 73–102, 104, 199n10
Bersani, Leo, 99–101
body politic, the, 3, 17, 30–31, 135, 144, 153–154, 183, 192; in Battlestar Galactica, 104, 107, 109; in Distraction, 164, 170–173
Bogacheva, Olga, 198n8
Bollobás, Enikö, 53–54
Boyd, Kathleen, 198n11
Brown, Wendy, 15, 31, 60–61, 67, 136–138, 155–156, 161, 198n13, 204n14
Butler, Judith, 196n1
capitalism: and democracy, 1–2, 160–161; finance capital, 158–160; and political economy, 65–66, 154; poverty capital, 80; and transnationalism, 6
Chatterjee, Partha, 5, 6, 29–31, 37, 86
Chow, Rey, 199n4
citizenship: and democracy, 1, 3–4, 18, 86, 136–138, 154; and incompetence (low information voter), 3, 144–145, 149, 151; and neoliberalism, 2, 13–14, 31–32, 35, 137–138; and self-fashioning in Occupy Wall Street, 180–191, 194. See also neocitizenship
civil society, 16, 24–26, 27–32, 45, 58, 61–65, 66, 86, 194, 195n3; in Battlestar Galactica, 103; in Distraction, 163
critique, 14–15; crisis of, 7, 11, 23–24, 38; and derealization, 108, 134, 142–143, 154–155, 161–162, 190–191, 194; and ideology, 46–47, 60, 141–142
Dean, Jodi, 205n1
Deleuze, Gilles, 15, 22–23, 114
Derrida, Jacques, 156
Deseriis, Marco, 205n1
Dworkin, Andrea, 100
Edelman, Lee, 105–107, 108, 117, 133, 200n2
Edwards, Brian T., 197n3
Edwards, Michael, 27–29, 197n5
Ellison, Ralph, 199n6
Eurasia Foundation, 47, 48, 61–63, 66
Federmayer, Ėva, 50–52, 54, 197n6
Finnerty, John, 204n12
Foucault, Michel, 1, 6, 15, 18–22; 24–25, 30, 33, 155, 156, 196n3, 198n13, 199n2
Frank, Tibor, 198n9
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 26–27
governmentality, 14, 18–22, 32, 33, 60, 86, 132
Gramsci, Antonio, 43, 57, 195n3, 196n3, 203n8
Greif, Mark, 182
Grossberg, Lawrence, 154, 161, 203n10, 203n11
Hardt, Michael, 6, 14, 17, 24–26, 27, 29, 31, 37, 103, 191–192, 196n3, 204n13, 206n9, 206n10
Harvey, David, 15, 16–17 196n3, 205n7
Hedges, Chris, 179–180
Henwood, Doug, 15, 156, 157–159, 204n13
Hughes, Langston, 70
International Monetary Fund, 27, 49
JanMohamed, Abdul, 199n1
Johns Hopkins Comparative Non-Profit Sector Project, 27, 29
Kadir, Djelal, 41–43
Kaplan, Amy, 197n4
Kennedy, Liam, 43–44, 46–47, 49, 62, 67
Klein, Naomi, 15
Kwiek, Marek, 49
lacanian psychoanalysis, 117, 200n4
Laclau, Ernesto, 191–192
Lang, Sabine, 63–64
Lofgren, Mike, 145–147, 204n14
Lucas, Scott, 43–44, 46–47, 49, 62, 67
Macheray, Pierre, 191–192
MacKinnon, Catharine, 100
Mbembe, Achille, 8, 70–73, 76, 77, 78, 196n1, 199n5
Medovoi, Leerom, 40, 46, 55–56, 57, 59–60, 61
Miyoshi, Masao, 16
Myrdal, Gunnar, 90
Neal, Mark Anthony, 74–75, 76, 85, 97
necropower, 8, 70, 199n9; defined, 72; in The White Boy Shuffle, 73, 76, 80, 86, 89–90, 92, 93–95
Negri, Antonio, 17, 191–192, 204n13, 206n9, 206n10
neocitizenship, 16, 40–41, 45, 58, 61–64, 66–68; 87,144–145, 194; and gender, 195n2; and identity politics, 35–38. See also citizenship
neoliberalism 1–3, 136, 154, 155–157, 160; in Battlestar Galactica, 9, 104; defined, 6, 15; and discipline, 20–21; and futurity,161 204n14; and ideology, 8, 59–61, 67–68, 144; and the nation-state, 7, 16–18, 29, 43–45, 139; and totalitarianism, 7, 32–33, 35; and the United States, 5
Newfield, Christopher, 206n9
normative culture, 33, 37, 56, 57; in Battlestar Galactica, 126–127, 133–134; defined, 15, 23–24; end of, 68, 140–141, 146, 148, 155–157, 160, 183
Obama, Barack, 10, 148–151, 167
Occupy Wall Street, 11, 175–184, 187–191, 193–194: and the multitude, 191–193; and race, 184–187
Patterson, Orlando, 199n8
Prashad, Vijay, 15
political society, 30–31, 37, 86–87
popular sovereignty, 3, 11, 31, 57, 64, 132, 136–139; and hegemony, 17, 18, 152–154, 160, 162. See also sovereignty
post-soul aesthetic, 73–74
Radway, Janice, 205n8
Reich, Robert, 161
Republican Party, 145–147
Roy, Ananya, 80
Ryan, Paul, 202n4
Salamon, Lester, 197n5
Saval, Nikil, 188–190
Schmidt, Eli, 182
Scott, Darieck, 100n11
Sitrin, Marina, 181–182, 188, 189
Snowden, Edward, 203n9
society of control, 14, 22–23; in Battlestar Galactica, 113–114, 118, 127, 132–133
Soros Foundation, 47, 48, 64–65, 199n15
sovereignty, 17–20, 33, 70–72, 100, 103, 196n1; in The White Boy Shuffle, 73, 76, 77, 82, 90, 92, 93. See also popular sovereignty
Spillers, Hortense, 70, 90, 94–96
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 86, 205n1
Stallings, L. H., 73, 74, 93–94, 96
St. Clair, Jeffrey, 148–149
Sterling, Bruce, and Distraction, 10, 11, 162–174, 175, 194, 205n16
Taibbi, Matt, 137, 139–141, 143,144, 151,154, 174, 202n3, 204n13
Taylor, Astra, 182
Tlostanova, Madina, 67–68
United States Agency for International Development, 7, 18, 40, 46, 47, 48, 61, 197n3
Warner, Michael, 18
Weizman, Eyal, 78
West, Cornel, 202n5
Wiegman, Robyn, 197n4
Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro, 158
Zimmerman, Susan, 198n14