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Tricky and the Bug: Dub, Punk, and the Abject
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 75–93.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of “brownpunk” to evoke alternative punk sensibilities, to refer to forms of degradation and social rejection that range from the petty criminal to the sexual nonconformist. Abjection comes through the Bug’s music as the alienated subjects that can survive apocalypse. These evocations open up “punk...
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“The Cassette Played Poptones”: Punk’s Pop Embrace of the City in Ruins
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 147–158.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of provincial alienation, to anthemic satires of Cold War apocalypse, to voyeuristic detachment in the face of urban decay, to critiques of inner-city racism, the punks’ city was both a scene of violence and of potential safety. During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the anarchic growl of punk music...
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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
... [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 sociality mediation apocalypse death life Jonathan Beller Dear Jayna, Aimee, Neferti, Maca, Erin, Minh-Ha, I wanted...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . Calbó Ignasi , and Hundal Sunny . “ Sanctuary and Refuge Cities .” OpenDemocracy, June 14 , 2017 . https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/sanctuary-and-refuge-cities/ . Calder Williams Evan . Combined and Uneven Apocalypse...
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The Biopolitics of Race in Futureland
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Mosley’sFuture -
30 Dubey · The Biopolitics of Race in Futureland
land (2001) and Darrell Bain’s The Melanin Apocalypse (2005)? Bain’s
novel features two distinct racial bioweapons, the first a virus developed
by a geneticist with covert funding from...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 69–89.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of Naples started to be flooded by urban garbage; heaps of trash were piling up, sometimes reaching the first floors of the buildings. Journalists from every corner of the world arrived in Naples, attracted by the lure of this urban apocalypse. Mothers zigzagging with their children among piles of garbage...
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2020: Momenta Vita
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2021
... (are) crushing unions and planning their escape to Mars. Everyone else is exhausted. January 2021 and people wanted some peace. But “peace” may not be what we really need, we thought. We don't need to restore normalcy. Instead we felt the need to keep alive a sense of alarm, immediacy, and rage. Apocalypse...
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Putting Back Together: Restitching Relations in annie ross's Pots and Other Living Beings
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 27–52.
Published: 01 September 2024
... endgame predicted by soundings of environmental crisis and collapse. Such visions of dystopia and apocalypse, Whyte writes, “obscure and erase ongoing oppression against Indigenous peoples and other groups” while overlooking “the ancestral dystopias we continue to endure.” 8 Apocalypse is a shifting...
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Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
... these geologic realisms, a confrontation with the abysmal horizons of the inhuman beyond the immediate suture of false ends to these processes and the dereliction of black personhood in the psychic category of the inhuman and the ongoing “experience of the abyss” in “a debasement more eternal than apocalypse...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
Published: 01 March 2022
....” 8. Swyngedouw, “Apocalypse Forever?” 9. Kenis and Lievens, “Searching for ‘the Political.’ ” 10. Walker, Environmental Justice . 11. Rosewarne, Goodman, and Pearse, Climate Action Upsurge . 12. Chatterton, Featherstone, and Routledge, “Articulating Climate...
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Biohazard: The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2013
... a model of the kind of
skeptical but radical, grassroots environmentalism called for to combat
the planetary ecocide toward which green capitalism is driving us. The
apocalypse that Toby has survived warns us of what we face if we fail...
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Performance and Feminist Collectivizing: An Interview with DISBAND
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 75–87.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to the election of Reagan—are all playing out again today with the overturning of Roe v. Wade , the conservative wave that grew with the election of Trump and expanding alt-right movements, and perhaps not nuclear holocaust per se but climate change as the nearing apocalypse. So much of the fear and anxiety you...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... Social Text published a number of essays on the region: Eqbal
Ahmed (“What’s Behind the Crises in Iran and Afghanistan,” issue 3, fall
1980), Norman O. Brown (“The Apocalypse of Islam,” issue 8, winter
1983 – 84), Barbara Harlow (“Return to Haifa: ‘Opening the Borders’
in Palestinian...
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Bio-Reproductive Futurism: Bare Life and the Pregnant Refugee in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 51–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to the war on terrorism, but perhaps more disturbingly it
also plays off some of the strongest contentions of America’s evangelical
pro-life movement: the ideas that abortion could bring on the apocalypse,
that infertility...
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Editorial: RALLYING SOCIAL TEXT
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Social Text (2002) 20 (1 (70)): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in the journal until the early 1990s, in which
a number of artists, activists, and scholars attempted to practice criticism
in modes that were less scholarly, shorter, harder-hitting, more topical.
These pieces included essays on visual art (Social Text 1), reviews of films
like Apocalypse Now, The Shining...
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Duty-Free in the DMZ?: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, the Heyri Art Valley, and Peace Tourism
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 57–81.
Published: 01 June 2015
... English from its meaning, that turns language
into pure visual form, offers the only available space outside the terrors of
nuclear apocalypse. As the only place of refuge, this transformed English
tantalizes us with its suggestion that the abstract forms...
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Anthrax “Я” Us
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Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., traverses the centuries with the promise of micro-
bial apocalypse.
Here we thought we had put the old scourges behind us, banished the
plagues with the Middle Ages. We imagined we had entered a whole new
world...
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Uncivil Wrongs: RACE, RELIGION, HATE, AND INCEST IN QUEER POLITICS
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 251–274.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., or
whatever the case may be. It’s one thing.19
The persistent and all-too-familiar connections between homosexuality
and the decline of the family seem inescapable. For Santorum, as well as
many others, homosexuality is the family’s apocalypse; the basic founda...
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“(Un)hooding” a Rebellion: The December 2008 Events in Athens
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 97–107.
Published: 01 December 2009
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of discourse expressing loss and refusal: “Give us back our lives, give us
back our time.” Moreover, the rebellion projected a terrifying image of
apocalypse: scrawled on the walls was the threatening message “We come
from the future.”
In the days after the initial outburst, the multiple agents who...
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Terror Networks and the Aesthetics of Interconnection
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2010
... minor skirmishes nor epic
battles. For the most part, warfare in Syriana operates as a permanent
condition of American-led global capitalism. Unlike films about conven-
tional wars (Patton, Saving Private Ryan), asymmetrical guerilla struggles
(Platoon, Apocalypse Now), or urban warfare...
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