... outsourced axiomatic of previously separate commercial and leisure spaces incarnated the utopian normalcy of the world city in drawing overseas investors and migrant workers with the buzz of elite prestige. The chapter examines how the award-winning novel The Quiet Ones (2017) depicts call...

...This chapter provides a conclusion to the book by asking whether the “call of conscience” in Heidegger finds a strange literary truth in the compulsive and tortured voice to be heard in Beckett’s The Unnamable, and by tracing a set of connections between these apparently disparate...

...“Call and Response: American Dominican Artists and Vatican II” describes the work of fifteen American Dominican artists as each exemplifies or anticipates the priorities of the Second Vatican Council. Each artist personifies the response to a specific call: to reanimate the original scriptural...

... in order to open up a dimension of experience that is hidden and beyond “normal” experience, something situated at the extremes of experience and thought. He shows how we are always already responding to a prior “call,” whether this is the call of beauty, of other humans, of nature, or even of God...

... residents’ everyday life, one angel finally chooses mortal existence, and the main characters’ succeed in mutual encounter, showing how the call and response that constitute acceptance and affirmation of each other and the world is still possible. Heidegger considers how a new rural rootedness would...

...Chapter 4 discusses the role of the senses in liturgy, arguing that they function in the form of a dialogic call and response. It also suggests that excess is not always the best way to talk about liturgical experience. The final section of the chapter considers liturgical “things...

...This chapter discusses the importance of address in the constitution of listening subjectivity in Western classical music. It argues that in contrast to hearing, listening is concerned not only with the event of sonority but also with its cultural appropriation in the so-called theater of human...

...Ethnography might also serve as a “chronography,” a thick and textured accounting of time that captures the vernacular feel of place, temporality, and durations. Discourse analysis and ethnography of the Philippines call-center industry depict how the offshore identity agents emerge from partial...