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Queer Space in the Ruins of Dictatorship Architecture

Bobby Benedicto
Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2348977
Published: 01 December 2013
... enables the aspirations embodied by dictatorship architecture to have a life beyond death. By drawing links between transgender performance and the production of a third world city in “first world drag,” the paper demonstrates the relations of complicity that bind “third world” queer place-making projects...
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The Architectures of Latino Sexuality

Richard T. Rodríguez
Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2869129
Published: 01 June 2015
... “disorganizational” potential, given the ways it troubles efforts to affirm logical placement. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Chicago sexuality architecture Latino queer The Architectures of Latino Sexuality Richard T. Rodríguez Dedicated to the memory of Rane Arroyo...
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“Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971

George F. Flaherty
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013318
Published: 01 December 2022
... targeting nine cities at the Mexico‐US border, led by former Ciudad Juárez mayor Antonio Bermúdez and with architecture supervised by Mexico City–based modernist Mario Pani. However, as this article argues, Pronaf sought to better integrate the borderlands to the national market and political structure...
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Terror Networks and the Aesthetics of Interconnection

Patrick Jagoda
Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-011
Published: 01 December 2010
... aesthetics”—an analytic that informs a wide range of contemporary theory, fiction, film, and new media, and that is a necessary corollary to an era in which interconnection has become a dominant architectural mode, a multivalent metaphor, and even a weapon. A reading of several post–9/11 texts, including...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force

Bakirathi Mani
Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1300001
Published: 01 September 2011
... such nationalist interpretations by delineating the expansive qualities of empire in the United States and in South Asia. By historicizing the Delhi Durbar as an aesthetic spectacle of empire, this essay highlights how geometric motifs of colonial India are linked to the architectural landscape of post-9/11...
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Real (Software) Abstractions: On the Rise of Facebook and the Fall of MySpace

Robert W. Gehl
Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 99–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1541772
Published: 01 June 2012
... is a synthesis of the software engineering concept of abstraction and the Marxian concept of the real abstraction. This concept is used to examine MySpace and Facebook at the levels of aesthetics, code, culture, and appeal to marketers. I argue that instead of creating an architecture of abstraction in which...
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Performing the Global University

Eng-Beng Lim
Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 25–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-053
Published: 01 December 2009
... toward professional degrees amid billion-dollar architectural projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi). The history of theater's institutional formation points to its complicity or vulnerability to the capitalist regime of the global university. This means that we have to view its disciplinary fissures, both...
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Introduction: Media and the Political Forms of Religion

Charles Hirschkind, Brian Larkin
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 1–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2000-001
Published: 01 September 2008
..., and by situations of marginality and war. Our belief is that to understand how religion, media, and politics intersect necessitates a close analysis of the forms and processes of circulation which in fact bring religion, media, and politics into being. Religions are constituted through an architecture...
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Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro

Martijn Oosterbaan
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-007
Published: 01 September 2008
... of sound, the architecture of the favela, and the ways in which sound is employed to mark off space and express identity and alterity. Pentecostal broadcasts acquire their meaning against the background of sound that evangelicals define as “worldly” instead of Godly, and the cacophony of sounds...
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Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision

James E. Dobson
Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 35–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10613653
Published: 01 September 2023
... their complex architectures can be difficult if not impossible because of how they encode and obfuscate quite human ways of seeing the world and the image repertoires used to train these algorithms that are rife with residues of prior representations. Figure 1. Renato Lorenzetto, “Português: Larissa Luz...
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in “Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971 > Social Text
Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 3. Driveway perspective of Trans World Airlines Flight Center, Idlewild Airport, New York (architect Eero Saarinen, 1957–62). Photograph by Peter Clericuzio, 2012, SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians. More
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Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013332
Published: 01 December 2022
... “speculation” and “sustainability” by analyzing the limits of contemporary speculative design projects about the border, particularly the lauded Borderwall as Architecture initiative, insofar as such projects do not resist an infrastructuralizing imperative. Second, I offer multifaceted close readings...
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On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project

Susan Stryker
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9034432
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 transgender toilet autotheory architecture design psychoanalytic theory I have watched brown pelicans gliding serenely over the Pacific Ocean for hours on end. They offer a study in economy of motion: wings fixed, they surf the thermal...
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After Sexology

Joan Lubin, Jeanne Vaccaro
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9034376
Published: 01 September 2021
..., in the contemporary moment, given it the force not so much of science as of policy, aesthetics, infrastructure, architecture, institutions, cultural production, and ideology. Foucauldian accounts of the modern subject have described the trajectory from scientia sexualis to contemporary biopower in terms...
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Literature or Revolution: Writing Robust in a Postcolonial Metropolis

Rudolf Mrázek
Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 103–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-103
Published: 01 March 2006
...: Rudolf Mrázek architecture or revolution. . . . Architecture or Revolution. Revolution can be avoided.  — Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture (1922) Between 1992 and 2000, on every university summer vacation, and once in 1995 on a six-month stay, I interviewed old people...
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Postspatial, Postcolonial: Accessing Palestine in the Digital

Meryem Kamil
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8352247
Published: 01 September 2020
... compilation therefore aims to preserve Haram al-Sharif by providing a record of its architecture, but also works to disseminate access to a site many cannot visit. The AJE team used two video recording systems to film the thirty-five-acre al-Aqsa compound ( fig. 2 ). One ultra-high-resolution video...
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Edward Said’s Home, Martin Buber’s Mailbox: The “Terrible Silences” of Israeli Colonial Jerusalem

Thomas Abowd
Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7585062
Published: 01 September 2019
... relied heavily on the use of Arab-owned homes throughout the country to settle and shelter these new arrivals. 22 These varied architectural renovations, as mentioned, help override indigenous histories in Jerusalem. They also raise an unavoidable ontological question, one relevant to colonial...
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The Art of Dissident Domesticity: Julian Assange, King Prempeh, and Ethnographic Conceptualism in the Prison House

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Michał Murawski, Jesse Weaver Shipley
Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4223417
Published: 01 December 2017
... dissident comportment and the constraints and possibilities of their textual and bodily circulations. A central element of Investigated is a video loop of a digitally rendered architectural flythrough of Assange’s room in the Ecuadorian embassy ( fig. 8 ). 39 The camera’s point of view circles around...
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Duty-Free in the DMZ?: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, the Heyri Art Valley, and Peace Tourism

Shameem Black
Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 57–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2869120
Published: 01 June 2015
...- munity first emerged in 1994, a deal was struck with the Korea Land and Housing Corporation in 1999, and construction began in 2001 on what has become a visually distinctive village of modernist architecture inhabited by artists, architects, filmmakers...
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Fragments of the Political, or How We Dispose of Wonder

Michael Dutton
Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 109–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1468344
Published: 01 March 2012
.... On how Tatlin’s tower explicitly references itself against the “bourgeois” Eiffel Tower, see Svetlana Boym, Architecture of the Off- Modern (New York: Prince- ton Architectural Press, 2008), 9. On the Ferris Wheel as an American response...
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