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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Neel Ahuja; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article explores the history and practice of rectal feeding, an anachronistic obstetric practice used recently as a form of medical rape in US Central Intelligence Agency prisons. The article outlines how racialized themes of counterterrorist...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
Published: 01 March 2011
... collective for helpful
revision suggestions. Special thanks to Page duBois, whose own writing on torture
inspired this piece.
1. Jay Bybee, “Memorandum for John Rizzo, Acting General Counsel of the
Central Intelligence Agency,” U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel,
1 August...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2005
... choice to replace the feckless George Tenet as director of
Central Intelligence) would suitably fi t the Olympian role of a DCI who
must manage those aspects of the “transcendent spectacle” that attends
to digitized supersurveillance power.42 This mythical role was amplifi ed
by the 9/11...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 35–53.
Published: 01 June 2005
... reporting industry in an unnamed
general, faced considerable struggle and expense in creating a compre-
hensive, centralized computer system. In law enforcement, state and local intelligence
agencies had initiated efforts by the mid-1960s to create centralized state
databases for criminal...
Journal Article
Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2024
... manages and negotiates various ethno-national interests, all the while supporting a central multicultural-imperial agenda. 23 In order to understand this dynamic, it is important to briefly explain the world of the Dragon Age franchise and the overall narrative arc of Inquisition...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 111–138.
Published: 01 December 2016
... complex in an arrangement from which ideologies and tactics of the counterterror state circulate. The impact of the terror-industrial complex in the malleability of social relations is a central feature of what I refer to as the racial infrastructure of the state mediation of everyday life. Here I am...
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of human exceptionalism. The field thereby
complicates notions of nonhuman agency by destabilizing the central-
ity of language, consciousness, and cognition (attributes constituted as
singularly human) in favor of ontological irreducibility, and it navigates
tensions between...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
...
reports and scholarship protesting failures in disaster response. The figure
of the “inept” state rose from across Chile’s political spectrum. Ineptness
became the central organizing metaphor of postdisaster interrogations.12
72 Kane, Medina, and Michler...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 29–51.
Published: 01 December 2001
...: Macmillan. Trial by Fire
GENDER, POWER, AND CITIZENSHIP IN
NARRATIVES OF THE NATION
Central to the imagination of Benedict...
Journal Article
Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 97–121.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of classification and hierarchy.
While ciphering the differences between the races had been critical to
his work with intelligence testing, he pursued the same aims when work-
ing with diverse ape species. Speciation in and of itself became a central...
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... But today, in an age of
so-called cognitive capitalism, of neoliberalism, post-Fordism, globaliza-
tion, consumerism, individualism, financialization, and of the illusions of
formal electoral democracy and public education, themes of agency and
imagination have taken on a new centrality not only...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 97–107.
Published: 01 December 2009
... dead by Greek police
in a narrow street of Exarcheia, a densely inhabited and much-frequented
quarter in the center of Athens. Exarcheia is also a highly politicized
and tightly policed quarter, considered the central territory of the “anti
authoritarians,” groups of anarchists who...
Journal Article
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., modes, and meanings.” 12 Sheppard means by this that the representations of black athletes “centralize Black athletes’ corporeal performance as spectacle, such that blackness is realized, mitigated, succumbed to, and disavowed.” 13 Here, we see explicitly how sweat becomes part of the entity...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 33–58.
Published: 01 June 2000
... as a whole.
Cultural and technical work is central to the Internet but is also a
widespread activity throughout advanced capitalist societies. I argue that
34 Tiziana Terranova
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Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the information commodity valuable is limited access and secrecy, but this does not take into account the issue of exchange, which is central to Karl Marx’s understanding of how the commodity form is assigned value and is separate from the logics of supply and demand. 6 In what follows I engage three lines...
Journal Article
Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 91–108.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., free agency and control. In Ning’s film, the personal his-
Howland · Popular Sovereignty and Democratic Centralism in China tories of four women are inextricably linked to this larger spatial history.
The film is set in a siheyuan, a traditional Chinese courtyard house...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 45–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... amounts of electricity, rare earth minerals from central Africa, and the labor of Chinese factory workers and Silicon Valley engineers. AI, are you afraid? Are you scared your powers are not as great as we think, and you could be tricked by artists and other techno-occultists with the very glyphs you have...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2012
... not only
the indigeneity claimed by Chicano critics in the United States but also
against the very migrants from southern Mexico and Central America
who flock to the border in countless numbers every year seeking entry
into it. The sheer...
Journal Article
Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2019
...-backed military and paramilitary forces. Assassinations or massacres by left-wing guerrillas accounted for only 3 percent of the civilian deaths in Guatemala. 15 The US intelligence agencies and Southern Command played a central role in orchestrating deadly counterrevolutionary strategies in Central...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 149–159.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the
recipients of much thought as to the advisability of their sheer existence.
The origins of the group are never clearly stated, and their story is not the
central part of this essay. Their most important moment was contained in
the first visit of what is called the “fifty-fivehermanos ” (notice...
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