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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 75–101.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Kevin Gaines ST.04-Gaines 5/24/01 5:53 PM Page 75 Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana BLACK RADICALISM AND THE DIALECTICS OF DIASPORA For students of black radicalism, Richard Wright’s...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 21–44.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Jonathan Beller The programmatic erasure of the concept of capitalism by the state (here paradigmatically represented by the state of Texas) is allied with the waning of Fredric Jameson’s dialectical concept of postmodernism. “Postmodernism” as the critique of the cultural logic of late capitalism...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
... logic of social cooperation, a viral value paradigm that guides social action and agency toward its own endless reproduction and expansion. This implies a struggle over the dialectic of imagination and value. I suggest that imagination is the “living” aspect of “living labor.” (3) Money is capital's...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Shu-mei Shih This essay brings into dialectical consideration the relationship between postsocialism and posthumanism in China through the life story of Marxist humanism from the global 1960s to the present across Eastern Europe, France, and the United States. It especially foregrounds the American...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Suisman This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 139–143.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of culture. The talk is a rare example where Adorno discusses culture per se, as opposed to his work on “culture industry” and “cultural criticism.” The object of the critical and dialectical critique—a prime example of “immanent critique” as understood by the Frankfurt school—is the Enlightenment, both...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 125–141.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and ontology. Like many Marxists, Jameson tends to avoid discussions of essence, existence, presence, and other ontological topics. Yet being so thoroughly influenced by Hegel’s dialectic and the representational logics of cultural Marxism, Jameson indeed promulgates a very specific ontological structure...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 69–91.
Published: 01 June 2021
... that shape and are shaped in the interstices of those social formations. In Delany's sword‐and‐sorcery bildungsroman, the models illustrate the abstract logic of value, show that logic to be informatic in character, and point toward a dialectical relationship between this informatic logic and the concrete...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Press 2019 Islam minority assimilation neoliberalism psychoanalysis sacrifice The history of civilization is the history of the introversion of sacrifice—in other words, the history of renunciation. —Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Neoliberal de...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2016
... within a horizon of human praxis. This changes irreversibly (for now) through what Jameson calls “the dialectic of scale embodied in machinery itself.” 22 As the organic composition of capital shifts ever higher ratios toward constant rather than variable capital, though the dialectic of labor’s...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 92–93.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and, as an avowed space of theoretical praxis, Social Text declares its belief “that the dialectical framework of the Marxian tradition is the only one in which these issues can be adequately raised and discussed.” This commitment “is not, however, a claim that Marxism has all the answers”; thus...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 94–101.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and, as an avowed space of theoretical praxis, Social Text declares its belief “that the dialectical framework of the Marxian tradition is the only one in which these issues can be adequately raised and discussed.” This commitment “is not, however, a claim that Marxism has all the answers”; thus...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 102–103.
Published: 01 September 2009
... developed in the various specialized disciplines can be made available for wider discus- sion” (ST 1, 1979). The “Prospectus” goes on to link political crisis and disciplinary crisis and, as an avowed space of theoretical praxis, Social Text declares its belief “that the dialectical...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 104–111.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and, as an avowed space of theoretical praxis, Social Text declares its belief “that the dialectical framework of the Marxian tradition is the only one in which these issues can be adequately raised and discussed.” This commitment “is not, however, a claim that Marxism has all the answers”; thus...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 112–117.
Published: 01 September 2009
... developed in the various specialized disciplines can be made available for wider discus- sion” (ST 1, 1979). The “Prospectus” goes on to link political crisis and disciplinary crisis and, as an avowed space of theoretical praxis, Social Text declares its belief “that the dialectical...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 118–122.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and, as an avowed space of theoretical praxis, Social Text declares its belief “that the dialectical framework of the Marxian tradition is the only one in which these issues can be adequately raised and discussed.” This commitment “is not, however, a claim that Marxism has all the answers”; thus...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 19–34.
Published: 01 December 2005
... it was used to denote a whore and later a precursor to the modern rent boy.”19 Although this account does not preclude an African origin for the word, I read the evidence as indicating that punk’d emerges from within what Dick Hebdige has called the “frozen dialectic between...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 117–121.
Published: 01 March 2018
... . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor W. 2007 . Dialectic of Enlightenment . Translated by Jephcott Edmund . Edited by Noerr Gunzelin Schmid . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Melamed Jodi . 2011 . Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 285–308.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... John D’Emilio first identified the import of these issues in his now-classic essay “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” arguing that gay liberation participates in a dialectic between repression and liberation...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 43–73.
Published: 01 June 2001
... it seemed much more dialectical. It embodied much more the way of thinking of Hegel, whom I had studied, because it recognized that new contradictions could arise out of great struggles for liberation and that progress did...