Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently, The Political Sublime, also published by Duke University Press.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Deferrals, Punctuations, Media Textualities 1
1. How "Popular" Music Thinks the Political 27
2. Urban Punctuations: Symphonic and Dialectic 55
3. Architectural Punctuations: The Politics of "Event Spaces" 84
4. Image Punctuations: From the Photographic to the Cinematic 115
5. Holocaust Punctuations: Handke, Kertész, and Sebald 148
Notes 175
Index 209