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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon In response to Vincent Brown's contribution to this roundtable, this article argues for the importance of attending to issues of design in digital humanities projects that aim to recover and reassess the archives of slavery. 2016 digital humanities slavery archival...
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in On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 4. Stalled! gender-neural public toilet project. Design concept for high-traffic areas such as airports. Courtesy of the Stalled! project.
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 55–77.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Lucas Crawford Abstract This article argues for what the author calls a trans-mad aesthetic of space, defined as designs or artworks that embark, sense, emote, and collect, in ways that queerly disrupt the norms of the public sphere. These four aesthetic operations resist, in turn, four current...
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in Cover of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity , with art by Dan Perjovschi
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Published: 01 March 2024
Cover of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity by Gary Wilder. Cover art: Dan Perjovschi. Cover design: Mark Lerner.
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Vincent Brown Creative historical scholarship demonstrates that archives are not just the records bequeathed by earlier times. Archives also consist of the tools we use to explore the past, the vision that allows us to read its signs, and the design decisions that communicate our sense of history's...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2011
... (the theory, technology, and practice of pest control). Designated as vermin (terrorists), African guerrillas fighting for independence were subjected to weapons that had been used against wild animals, such as poisons. The article ends with a reminder that the designation and treatment of people as vermin...
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in Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working from Home
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Published: 01 June 2022
Figure 3. The caption that follows this image reads, “A fine workstation in a fine piece of furniture.” Image from Zimmerman, Home Office Design , 90.
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Published: 01 December 2017
Figure 1 Album cover of Revolting Cocks’ Beers, Steers, and Queers (Remixes) , 1991. Courtesy of Wax Trax! Records, cover design by Brian Shanley
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2. Radical Environmental Organizations (REOs) vs. Mainstream Environmental Organizations (MEOs)—Dealing with climate change and waste/toxicity. Graphic design by Simona Quagliano.
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Figure 4. Stalled! gender-neural public toilet project. Design concept for high-traffic areas such as airports. Courtesy of the Stalled! project. ...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3. Engaging with toxicity and climate change—REOs and MEOs. The intensity of the engagement is represented by the thickness of the lines; the thicker the line, the more engaged the organization. Graphic design by Simona Quagliano.
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in Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working from Home
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Published: 01 June 2022
Figure 2. The inclusion of children in the image—meant to stress AnthroCart's feature of “child-safe” technology—shows the potential instilled into home office technologies. Image from Zimmerman, Home Office Design , 80.
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 June 2019
... this situation. The concept marks a critical reorientation, an epistemological shift in how we think about and understand the category refugee. Redirecting dominant perception of refugee as a temporary legal designation and a condition of social abjection toward refugee as an enduring creative force, refugeetude...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
... specifically focuses on the latest iteration of the urban greenery frenzy: the Gardens of the Nation. By studying how this nationwide urban greenery drive has been designed, promoted, discussed, inaugurated, and used, this article provides an account for the critical role green aesthetics play in conjuring up...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2016
... property, and cultural impropriety define, adjudicate, and support some fashion-copying practices while stigmatizing others. This essay begins with a historical perspective of fashion copynorms. It then examines one case study — a dispute between a small ecoconscious design firm, Feral Childe, and a large...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
.... The author argues that “postemancipation” is in fact not a past historical period but a critical designation of the social and relational terms of our present. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 necrospeculation necropolitics postemancipation racial capitalism finance slavery redress...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the representation of sounds by considering speech not in terms of meaning nor in terms of airborne waveforms but in terms of the characteristics of its perception and the minimum features by which it could be reconstructed. The sound spectrograph was designed to make telephone transmission more efficient...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 177–195.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Haraway, are “fleshly material-semiotic presences”: not a metaphor, a substitute or surrogate, and at the same time not the name of a discrete material otherness (what sometimes gets called nature). Their designation as both material and semiotic suggests a way to think about this case as a meaningful...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 81–105.
Published: 01 December 2011
... especially focused on the film's sound design, it argues that the film shows us a significant shift in the formal location of Jia's representation of the relation between history and the everyday in the Chinese context. Along the way, the essay assumes that the worldly register in which these arguments take...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 123–131.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Nayanika Mookherjee In 1971, the formation of Bangladesh coincided with the death of a large number of civilians and the rape of many women. In stark contrast to the assumption of complete silence relating to war-time rape, the independent Bangladeshi government publicly designated that all women...
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