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MESA Presidential Address 2011: History and Its Histories: Story-Making and The Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Suad Joseph
Suad Joseph*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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We live in an age of history-making. We live in an age of liquid boundaries, malleable categories, moving and movable human subjects. We live in an age of unspeakable horror, illegible events, incomprehensible human actions. We live in an age of unimagined heroics, unthinkable sacrifices, unforeseen human capacities.

We live in an age of uprisings, upended authorities, unbounded rage. We live in an age of speed, motion that seems unnavigable, movement that seems untrackable. We live in age of unprecedented documentation, inconceivable surveillance, uncontrolled intelligence. We live in age of megalith media, lightning communication, urgent immediacy from near and far.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , Summer 2012 , pp. 6 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2012

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