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Feeling Appropriately: On Fashion Copyright Talk and Copynorms
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This essay examines the contradictory politics around the appropriation of cultural material in the fashion world. While fashion does not qualify for copyright protection, a common set of copynorms based on socially accepted racial constructions of authorship, originality, creative...
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Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 39–58.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Charles Hirschkind The great attention given to death and the afterlife within the popular media of the Islamic movement is a sign for many in the West of a diseased Muslim culture, one preoccupied with violence and destruction, and inexorably epitomized in the figure of the suicide bomber...
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“Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
... science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through durative and recursive structures. Providing the extractive and appropriative logics underlying racial capitalism, dispossession is both...
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Copying Kill Bill
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 133–153.
Published: 01 June 2005
... and cultural appropriations, as clearly shown in
Kill Bill. One interesting example that demonstrates the complexity and
contradictions of this “copyrighting” discourse of Hollywood is again the
“Shaw Scope Wide Screen” title card seen...
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Sporting Faith: ISLAM, SOCCER, AND THE FRENCH NATION-STATE
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2000
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As such, he has earned the ire of certain Muslim and Kabyle interest
groups, who have attempted to appropriate Zidane for their respective
social movements. While his prominence has been used to support Euro-
pean legislation for minority-language support, Kabyle cultural...
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From Privacy to Visibility: CONTEXT, IDENTITY, AND POWER IN UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 95–108.
Published: 01 June 2005
... grouping
attaches thereto. A status, a position, a social place is not a material thing,
to be possessed and then displayed; it is a pattern of appropriate conduct,
coherent, embellished, and well-articulated. . . . It is something that must
be enacted and portrayed, something that must be realized...
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Art
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 53–57.
Published: 01 September 2009
... his artistic intentions or even his ability to remem-
ber what he had created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known...
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(Theorizing the) Americas
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 43–51.
Published: 01 September 2009
... created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known creator. But his articulation of a labor theory of culture
spoke less...
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Aesthetics
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 27–34.
Published: 01 September 2009
... his artistic intentions or even his ability to remem-
ber what he had created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known...
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The Collective as a Political Model
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 25–26.
Published: 01 September 2009
... created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known creator. But his articulation of a labor theory of culture
spoke less...
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Affect
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 35–38.
Published: 01 September 2009
... created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known creator. But his articulation of a labor theory of culture
spoke less...
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AIDS
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 39–42.
Published: 01 September 2009
... his artistic intentions or even his ability to remem-
ber what he had created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known...
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Body
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 58–62.
Published: 01 September 2009
... his artistic intentions or even his ability to remem-
ber what he had created, serves as a kind of anti-antiessentialist critique of
appropriation and postmodern remix culture. Only by an accident of scale
(the astonishing success of Fairey’s poster) did Garcia move from anony-
mous to known...
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A “Sensation” Chronicle
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 127–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
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quette of appropriation” to one oriented toward broad public education in
culture and design.21 In terms developed by Bourdieu, while the former
privileges the “domestic” relation to culture developed by patrons through
the implicit learning of everyday contact...
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In the Afterlife of the Duke Case
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., but not at the same level of
intensity. 3
On campus, the interpretative framing of the story was fractured
from the outset along two increasingly disparate lines of emphasis: one
sought to grapple with issues of campus life and the cultures of privilege
sustained by elite institutions...
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“This Is Not the Sound of the Asian Underground”: On the Borders of Britain's New Asian Kool, 1997–2000
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 71–89.
Published: 01 March 2025
... . . . is a surefire tactic for denying the angrier sounds of Asian marginality.” 8 Maybe. But while these arguments are important and necessary reminders of the perils of the appropriation of Black expressive culture, 9 they would seem to place a certain burden of political representation on British South Asian...
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Infrastructure in Black: An Ante-Commons in Colonial New England
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 1–36.
Published: 01 December 2023
... explicitly link the appropriable labor of these five Black men with her potential precarity by calling them all “negero” or “negro.” Adam Saffin, Dick, Ned Hubbard, Robin Keats, and Mingo Walker repurposed that link to foster Black life. Their effort was improvisational, in that they did not simply reference...
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A Response to Alberto Moreiras
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 123–126.
Published: 01 December 2007
... for “some basic kind of old-
fashioned Marxism.” This, he suggests, would be the appropriate approach
to my example of the Peruvian peasant women who migrated to Lima
and organized themselves in so successful a fashion. This alludes to the
most challenging of contemporary issues...
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“Police and Thieves”: Citation as Struggle in the Punk Cover Song
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 111–122.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., in “Police and Thieves,” the Clash create a form that from the outset denies resolution. Examining cover-song form enables us to think beyond those questions of ethics and appropriation that have, hitherto, dominated the theorizing of pop. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 “Police and Thieves”
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Style, Tsotsi -style, and Tsotsitaal : The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... For the tsotsi entered into black popular culture in
South Africa not only through linguistic slippage and appropriation, as we
shall see, but via the traversal of genre thresholds; it migrated away from
the jazz musical, where it was cathected to the idea...
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