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Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads

Jessica Marie Johnson
Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658
Published: 01 December 2018
... to enumerate and digitize early modern black diasporic life. The article engages those critiques in light of black diasporic communities’ battles for justice and redress and the forms these have taken online, such as Afrofuturism, eBlack Studies, and Digital Alchemy. It argues that, while digitizing the study...
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Infrastructural Drift in Seismic Cities: Chile, Pacific Rim, 27 February 2010

Stephanie C. Kane, Eden Medina, Daniel M. Michler
Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2831880
Published: 01 March 2015
... and consciousness and unforeseen effects that accompany a systemic but unsystematic shift in technological habits. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 digital communication disaster earthquake infrastructure tsunami alert Infrastructural Drift in Seismic Cities Chile, Pacific Rim, 27 February 2010...
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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
... rendering of destroyed village Mi’ar. These digital texts reimagine Palestinian access to land as a community-driven and intergenerational project. In this analysis, access is formulated as a term that invokes the following: new-media analyses of the digital divide (or differential resources for obtaining...
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Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working from Home

Renyi Hong
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 21–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9631117
Published: 01 June 2022
... more integrated and rounded personalities that would radiate outward, creating emotionally mature children and stronger community bonds. Emerging at a moment when “telecommuting” condensed the political stakes of digital labor, this strand of discourse reveals how working from home was appropriated...
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Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information

Mara Mills
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-059
Published: 01 March 2010
... “mathematical theory of communication,” worked out at Bell Labs, allowed one to calculate the minimum number of binary digits (“bits”) required to code a given word, sound, or image. Shannon 50 Mills ∙ Deaf Jam demonstrated that any continuous source could...
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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
...Shameem Black This article examines how twenty-first-century Anglophone digital art, arts marketing, and tourist discourse in South Korea address the problem of reconciliation after mass violence. At the turn of the new millennium, the arts have been enlisted by governments and tourist agencies...
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Labor/Value/Information

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298631
Published: 01 March 2018
..., beings but also remaking finance, claiming “the economic” as a cooperative, communal, trans-ontic endeavor, this time consciously designed with collective, planetary liberation in mind. Truth be told, “Digital Culture” is really “Digital Culture 2.0.” Commodification was the first digital culture...
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The Revolution Will Be Digitized: AFROCENTRICITY AND THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE

Anna Everett
Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 125–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-125
Published: 01 June 2002
... and representation in new technologies, such as the Internet. Toward a Theory of the Egalitarian Technosphere; or, How Wide Is the Digital Divide? In the early 1970s, a new communications network began to take off in America. . . . Visionaries saw...
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Digital Precarity Manifesto

Precarity Lab
Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 77–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402
Published: 01 December 2019
... geographic sites and cultural practices in the digital age. References Andrejevic Mark . “ Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure .” Surveillance and Communication 10 , no. 4 > ( 2007 ): 295 – 317 . Boyd Danah Crawford Kate . “ Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations...
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Free Labor: PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Tiziana Terranova
Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 33–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-2_63-33
Published: 01 June 2000
... that capitalism could stay forever outside of the network, a mode of communication that is fundamental to its own organizational structure. The outcome of the explicit interface between capital and the Internet is a digital economy that manifests all the signs...
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Introduction: FUTURE TEXTS

Alondra Nelson
Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-1
Published: 01 June 2002
... and African diasporic communities that went beyond the notion of the digital divide. From the beginning, it was clear that there was much theoretical territory to be explored. Early discus- sions included the concept of digital double consciousness; African dias- poric cultural retentions in modern...
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Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery

Vincent Brown
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315826
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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In the Wake of Visual Failure: Twitter, Sandra Bland, and an Anticipatory Nonspectatorship

Wendy Sung
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8903577
Published: 01 June 2021
... community often uses Twitter and hashtags for intracommunity communication, contradicting dominant preconceptions of the digital divide. Black Twitter unsettles the technological imaginaries and online identities often constructed and assumed to be white, male, heterosexual, and middle class. As Brock notes...
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Editors' Introduction

Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 131–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315814
Published: 01 December 2015
... and Diaspora.” In Identity, Culture, Community, Difference , edited by Rutherford Jonathan , 222 – 37 . London : Lawrence and Wishart . Kaye Anthony . 2009 . Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Patterson...
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Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value: Forms of Disposal

Seb Franklin
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 69–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8903620
Published: 01 June 2021
...—or determine, or dominate—a given material system. 15 This association between informatics and “soft” or immaterial determination undergirds the notion of logistics as the frictionless circulation of goods and the putative immateriality of digital communication, as well as a range of other post-Fordist...
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Adorno by the Pool; Or, Television Then and Now

Amy Villarejo
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 71–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3467978
Published: 01 June 2016
...Amy Villarejo What can critical theory, from Theodor Adorno to contemporary writers on the relationship between capitalism and digital media, tell us about the specific form or medium that is television? This article undertakes a two-step answer to this question, first by locating television...
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Marx, Memory, Loss: Ways of Reading Capital

Anna McCarthy
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 105–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3607612
Published: 01 September 2016
... in use, see in particular Gundaker, Signs of Diaspora, Diaspora of Signs ; Davidson, Revolution and the Word ; and Hayles, Writing Machines . 3 For another take on this, see Guillory, “How Scholars Read.” 4 Hillesund, “Digital Reading Spaces.” 5 In the end, I did not get...
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Homo Dissensum Significans , or The Perils of Taking a Stand in China

Gloria Davies
Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1416082
Published: 01 December 2011
... in Euro-American scholarship and public culture about our excessive reliance on technology, its environmental costs, and the ominous prospect of a posthuman dystopia. In the era of digital communications and its ever-multiplying forms and signifying practices...
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Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano

David Suisman
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-058
Published: 01 March 2010
...: The Call of Leaders (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 124; William Rodgers, Think: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM (New York: Stein and Day, 1969), 69; Mark J. P. Wolf, Abstracting Reality: Art, Communication, and Cognition in the Digital...
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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
...‐twentieth‐century ontology of the digital image in these contemporary technologies. While CNNs are multidimensional, their ontology flattens distinctions between background and foreground, between subjects and objects, and even the relations established among the categories of information used to organize...
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