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