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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
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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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
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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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
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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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
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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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
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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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
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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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 35–55.
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. [email protected] Copyright © 2023...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 33–49.
Published: 01 December 2024
... material channels of communication are important for spatial thinking on prisons. The social networks, clandestine maneuvers, and legal loopholes that led to the book's publication all signal how the prison bears creative insurgent pathways within its architecture of racist incapacitation. Jackson's...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 25–44.
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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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 1–9.
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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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 99–119.
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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in “Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971
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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.
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
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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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
... 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 currents circulating between sea and sky, skimming and soaring...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., 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 of the encoding of sex into discourse. This special issue builds on this genealogical account...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 103–125.
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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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
Published: 01 September 2020
... 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 was filmed with six GoPro cameras mounted together to capture 360 degrees around...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
... many decades. Inundated with more than 200,000 new Jewish arrivals to Israel in the first few years of its existence, the budding state relied heavily on the use of Arab-owned homes throughout the country to settle and shelter these new arrivals. 22 These varied architectural renovations...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... See also Balázs, “You Have No Sovereignty Where We Gather.” 62 Ibid., 440. 63 Lefebvre, Production of Space , 76 . 64 Ibid., 303. 65 Sterling. “Ecuadorian Library.” 66 See Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia ; and Jameson, “Architecture and the Critique...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 57–81.
Published: 01 June 2015
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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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