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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... sometimes been framed as a resource for the disruption of normalizing systems of power. The articles in this special issue show that, by contrast, plasticity does not resist but is actually enlisted by state power through biopolitics. “The Biopolitics of Plasticity” investigates how race and state power...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., the commune) that are simultaneously modes of reorganizing forms of life, a destituent art would not signal a turn to a productive pessimism—that all creative work is already subsumed—but that the cultivation of destituent power actualizes and is actualized by the aesthetic production of places of action...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Ed Cohen How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., which targeted the detainee's purported entomophobia, was never actually carried out; however the memo's rationale for the technique reveals the ways in which logics of species, race, sexuality, and disability co-produce technologies of biopower and economies of affect within contemporary US imperial...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2011
... into instruments for dehumanizing others, and the ecstasy that comes from producing corpses, stench, and pain. The pest is no mute subject; it is indefatigable. To call a person or animal a pest is to acknowledge his/its potential or actual resistance or infraction of boundaries one sets. This perception...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and selfishness are counterposed as the defining qualities, respectively, of superior persons and their inferior counterparts. I then consider this dyad as an argumentative device at work in actual and textual acts of dissent in post-Maoist China, focusing on an event that occurred during the student protest...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... refigured ways and forms. Second, in recounting the reinvention of Chinese medicine for living in perfect harmony with disharmonious urban worlds, this essay traces how oneness is actualized as a multiplicitous and generative analytic through entanglements with modernity, science, and biomedicine—all...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2012
... is not a discreet formation affecting only previously or actually socialist countries and that, when seen through the lens of Marxist humanism, to which American ethnic studies can be considered heir, the condition today in China and globally is resoundingly not posthumanist. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 95–102.
Published: 01 December 2019
... broader frame, as well as impossibly entangled, as they are all concerned with the power to define who or what moves, where, when, and how. Therefore, logistics can be framed as a complex and productive multifaceted lens through which a new critical comprehension of actual dynamics needs to be framed...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 77–90.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Elyx Desloover; Marquis Bey Abstract Marquis Bey's Black Trans Feminism (2022) puts forth radical gender abolition as the necessary actualization of blackness and transness toward hopeful world de/construction. An intentional, ongoing work of stepping aside from expected regimes replaces material...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... This weird tale doubles as documentation of dead infrastructure: its platform characters are actual rigs that litter sea beds around the world. What imaginative or conceptual forms, then, can help us grasp infrastructure's forms of life? This question is particularly urgent with regard to fossil...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
... how the “concerns” of health care get construed in bioscientific accounts of HIV/AIDS and reconsider what the salient biopolitical dimensions of health and life actually are. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Immune Communities,
Common Immunities
Ed Cohen
The choice...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 25–49.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of
possibilities or actualities, in which femininity matches with identity—a
given essence, such as a biological sex, or a cultural construction, such as
a gendered sex. Rather, feminine desire coincides with its virtual poten-
Social Textt 80, Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2009
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their ideas and discoveries and plan globally.7 Abstracted and isolated either
as the figures of jobs lost by the developed world or as human exploitation
in the developing world — both of which could be used to justify further
claims of globalization and development — actual labor vanishes, or is dis...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 103–125.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that in concrete historical condi-
tions, the two axes are thoroughly intertwined; actual subordinate subjects
experience both types of oppression, and actual movements combine both
types of justice claims ( JI, 15, 32).6 She nevertheless contends that we
can...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 159–164.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... If we wanted to call ourselves immigrants, we
would be in the right in the sense of our immigration papers, but at the
same time we would deny our actual situation. We would express a zeal
that our American friends probably notice — even if they are too polite
to say so.
If we were...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 75–87.
Published: 01 June 2024
... my contribution would be zest. I've never used that word but I sort of have an internal combustion system and my idea performing is actually that place where I can— Donna Henes: —let it out— Ilona: —where I can really explode, you know, really push at that kind of limit. I thought...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2006
... (and are) real social,
historical, and geographical entities. Though phantasmically conjured and
produced, orientalism and the Orient are institutions that have structured
and affected — and continue to structure and affect — actual societies...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 145–158.
Published: 01 June 2009
... explained to you in a somewhat abstract and conceptual manner, are
themselves rooted in the actual social processes of both countries, namely
in the fact that — and I again speak in a slightly blunt and exaggerated
manner — America is purely a country of the bourgeois revolution; it is
a country...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 117–123.
Published: 01 December 2014
... imagines its reach in other
areas, both touching and touched by “the real.”
Nevertheless, our propensity to forget the theoretical stakes of
“queer” — despite the fact that those early de Laurentian, Butlerian, and
Sedgwickian moments have actually provided the foundation for some
of queer’s...
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