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Cities in Flux
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., fleeing cities. The state preferred populations to forget that their situation had already been bad when COVID-19 struck. One must not forget that in the “biggest democracy” unemployment had touched a forty-five-year high, and bloated growth figures had dipped to the lowest level even in terms...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 27–53.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous peoples under US...
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Essays from the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 55–73.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to deep-dive the purchase under the imaginary headline of “ways to stay out of the emergency room if you do not have COVID-19.” I want you to imagine how much can be justified therein. Weekly conversations with family members—my parents and youngest sibling in Florida and my sister in Texas only...
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Sociality at the End of the World
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 7–26.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the images and accounts of COVID-19 from around the world, and particularly of its impact on essential workers who are predominantly people of color, and on the elderly and on the Reservations. And of the isolation and atomization COVID-19 has imposed; of people sick and dying alone; of loved ones unable...
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Transpacific Maladies
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2020
... change, but it is nonetheless embedded within a global imaginary that sees certain kinds of transpacific intimacy with China as threatening. As the epidemiological trajectory of the film Contagion suggests (and as the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced), Asia in general and China in particular have come...
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Martial Law Now, as Then
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2021
... ballistic and my sister called my mother's doctor that they started to treat her. She died an hour later. COVID-19 rules in the Philippines dictate that persons who died and have not been tested for the virus be immediately cremated or buried within twenty-four hours. In a country obsessed...
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2020: Momenta Vita
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... BLM uprising COVID-19 [email protected] [email protected] 2020. The year 2020 lunged ahead, each day revealing more and more drastic and catastrophic events. These were not new catastrophes; in fact they were all too familiar, to some people more than others. But they piled on one...
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On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., Estonia, during my spring break at Yale University, where I am a visiting professor team-teaching an architecture seminar titled “Non-compliant Bodies” with my colleague Joel Sanders. At the time of my departure from the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed like something about which to remain...
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Interregnum
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 83–101.
Published: 01 December 2021
[email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Black Lives Matter 2020 COVID-19 Zoom Michael Mandiberg As New York paused for COVID-19, almost all my human contact and communication ceased. Like many information workers, I found myself on hours...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2022
... 50 , no. 2 ( 2018 ): 447 – 55 . M4BL . “ The Dual Crisis of Climate Change and Covid-19 .” https://m4bl.org/events/the-dual-crisis-of-climate-change-and-covid-19/ (accessed March 1 , 2021 ). M4BL . “ Invest-Divest .” https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/invest-divest/ (accessed...
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Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country?
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 1970s spoke of being terrorized by the don of Tivoli Gardens during that period. She shook with rage as she asked “what Tivoli had learned ” from their experiences in 2010. As the COVID-19 curfews wore on through May 2020, the tenth anniversary of the “Tivoli Incursion,” which began on May 24, 2010...
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(In)Security Theater: South African Land Occupation and the Performance of Institutional Authority
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 81–101.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and the height of the cape's COVID-19 pandemic. 26. Madonsela, “It is worse if #BulelaniQolani tactically undressed himself.” 27. Quoted in Nombembe, “We Feel Insulted.” 28. The national State of Disaster was instituted on March 15, 2020, and lifted April 5, 2022, with residual...
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Afterword: Queer Reconstellations
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 149–156.
Published: 01 December 2020
... rights in the United States, anticolonial and antiausterity protests in Puerto Rico and Chile, the Umbrella and Arab Spring movements across Hong Kong, North Africa, and the Middle East, not to mention the fallout from the global COVID-19 pandemic, all point to the global entanglements of crisis...
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Slow Loss: Black Feminism and Endurance
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the ordinary. In the wake of COVID-19—the long moment in which I write this article—Black feminist theorists have turned sustained attention to the radical possibilities of slowness. In a Zoom session designed to describe slowness's world-making potential, Tina Campt describes the disparate access...
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“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 75–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... As witnessed especially in 2020 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, people may join collectives because they are ready to be supportive, yet in joining and offering care, may have relied on private structures for their own care, refraining from asking the collective for support. Leah Lakshmi...
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Rooting Out Injustices from the Top: The Multispecies Alliance in Morro da Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 91–108.
Published: 01 March 2022
... months. In 2020, it was the COVID-19 pandemic that interrupted our work. Our research has also highlighted the unbalance of the multiple alliances developed by the community leaders. While most of our academic work has continued via home offices, this is not a viable alternative for those who must plant...
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After Sexology
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of examples that reflect its multifarious constitution and uneven diffusion: post-Katrina New Orleans, utopian psych wards, stand-up comedy, the mythology of the welfare queen, concentration camps, public toilets, gender dysphoria, Ulysses the glass dildo, and COVID-19. By revisiting key texts, figures...
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Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocuqueer Aesthetics and the Right to Thrive
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 69–92.
Published: 01 June 2022
...; the forced intervention and regulation of immigrants’ bodies, such as forced hysterectomies; and the distancing of medical care in times of COVID-19, all operate as vectors of biopolitical control that debilitate the undocumented population. In more adverse situations, children detainees, like Carlos...
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Black Folk in English Folk
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2025
... “Wobbles on Cobbles,” released in 2020. 32 It is an urban fable that documents run-ins with the police and East End struggles to make ends meet, but it also captures the stifling feel of life in COVID-19 London. He explained in an interview, Most my music comes to me like streams of consciousness...
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Preliminary Notes toward a Destituent Art
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the amnesiac rhythm of many contract negotiations. 40 But once immediate demands were met, the struggle fizzled and localized. During the COVID pandemic, a major New York museum again became a site of antagonism. The grassroots campaign MoMA Divest publicized board member Larry Fink's major stakes...
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