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Siphoning and Sabotage: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and US Electricity Theft

Sage Gerson
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013346
Published: 01 December 2022
...Sage Gerson Abstract In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access...
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Light Reading: Public Utility, Urban Fiction, and Human Rights

Michael D. Rubenstein
Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-009
Published: 01 December 2008
...Michael D. Rubenstein This essay argues that the public utility, particularly electricity supply, signifies powerfully as a form of social recognition, a basic human right, and a model of civic inclusion and citizenship in the modern and postcolonial Bildungsroman . James Joyce's A Portrait...
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Forms of Life: Thinking Fossil Infrastructure and Its Narrative Grammar

Jennifer Wenzel
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013360
Published: 01 December 2022
... infrastructure: the extant infrastructure of fossil fuels poses an obstacle to energy transition, while the act of making infrastructure visible and “following the pipeline” is regarded by incisive petrocritics as necessary but insufficient. What do cooling towers, electric pylons, or railways make happen...
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Radio Silence: Black Technologies and the Sound of Britain's Dying Colonialism

Tao Leigh Goffe
Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 49–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-11573354
Published: 01 March 2025
..., Samuel Selvon, and Sylvia Wynter. Another Afro-Jamaican, Hedley Jones, who served in the Royal Air Force, became the inventor of the sound system, influenced by electrical engineering and radar training he received in the United Kingdom during World War II. Soundwaves intended to train a global...
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Introduction: Reading for Infrastructure

Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, Daniel Nemser
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013276
Published: 01 December 2022
... Electricity Theft” turns to the electrical grid as both an infrastructural mediator of electrical power in the United States and a materialization of power itself. The essay triangulates three “electrifictions” focused on the relationship between Blackness and electricity: General Electric (GE)’s “electric...
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Energy States: Unequal Burdens, Climate Transitions, and Postextractive Futures

Ashley Dawson, Macarena Gómez-Barris
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 39–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495103
Published: 01 March 2022
... sector and mining.” 1 During his fifteen years in power, Morales and MAS moved decisively to regain national sovereignty over the nation's natural resources, taking control of strategic utilities and industries such as water and electricity as well as extractive industries such as the natural gas...
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The Public Power Observatory

Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 89–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-11084548
Published: 01 June 2024
... nations like the United States and the countries of the European Union are in a state of almost total disavowal. 7 The leading edge of the union movement in the United States, the UAW, is for example fighting for a role in the production of electric vehicles with absolutely no recognition of the need...
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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
... communications, more so than procedures for recording or transmission fidelity: “When electrical communications started the first requirement was completeness. Morse had to transmit the whole alphabet; Graham Bell the whole range of speech sounds...
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Waiting for the Bus

Sikivu Hutchinson
Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 107–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-2_63-107
Published: 01 June 2000
... fiction. access, attendant Up until the 1950s the Pacific Electric Railway and the Los Angeles to the increasing Railways provided transportation to all of Greater L.A., extending as far...
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The Senses of Water in an Omani Town

Mandana E. Limbert
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 35–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-3_68-35
Published: 01 September 2001
... (not to mention the change in the economy itself), diesel and electrical pumps, sprinkler systems, and hoses quickly entered the Omani market and soon became part of the landscape of small towns and villages. Certainty and determinism about development...
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Visuality as Infrastructure

Adriana Michele Campos Johnson
Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 71–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-6917778
Published: 01 September 2018
... the principle productive force (through machines): Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs...
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Deep in the Blood of Time: WITNESSING TRAINS AND THE LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY

Sikivu Hutchinson
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 37–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-37
Published: 01 March 2005
... in its tempestuous century- old romance with street railways. Like most big cities, LA has historically been seduced by the redemptive potential of new stations and train lines. In 1925 the Pacifi c Electric subway terminal opened...
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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
..., hold considerable promise for post- disaster rescue and recovery efforts.2 In the midst of disaster, however, electric grids must immediately be shut off to prevent gas explosions, and communication relay towers become saturated, fall out of alignment, and lose power. Digital capabilities can...
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Contributors

Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): np.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-2_63-np
Published: 01 June 2000
... completed a manuscript entitled “Los Angeles in the Time of the Electric Railway: Race, Gender, and the Urban Imagination.” Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, journalist, and cul- tural critic. Her first collection of poetry, Anatomy of a Smile...
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Am I Not My Metadata?

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 45–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298550
Published: 01 March 2018
.... The Autonomous Trap is an intervention in the shared domain of human and machine vision, taking advantage of the inflexibility of algorithmic decision making to change the balance of power between the individual and the machine. I thought you only consumed huge amounts of electricity, rare earth...
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The Rainy Season: Toward a Cinematic Ethnography of Crisis and Endurance in Mexico City

Angela Garcia
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3728020
Published: 01 March 2017
... with ambiguity or melancholy, as in the opening sequence. Instead, it is depicted naturalistically, revealing it to be an impoverished, working landscape, subjected to the harsh material realities of the surrounding environment. These realities are further epitomized by the shack itself. Lacking electricity...
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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
...”—reveals this mirroring of telecommuter personalities and the features of what home offices were imagined to be. Shaped like a large steel box, the office-in-a-box opens up into a complete workstation that even has electrical outlets, a phone jack, and a local area network (LAN) port. 83...
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Introduction: Urban Margins

Kamran Asdar Ali, Martina Rieker
Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 1–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-026
Published: 01 June 2008
... in Caroline Humphrey’s recent paper on a midsize Siberian city and the breakdown of the taken-for-granted infrastructural projects. The extreme dependency of city life on the regular supply of heat, electric- ity, and water takes on a crisis mode when...
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Neoliberalism, Activism, and HIV/AIDS in Postapartheid South Africa

Deborah Mindry
Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 75–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-020
Published: 01 March 2008
... than provider of services. In this model, municipal services are run more like a business with the emphasis being on financial cost recovery. Priva- tization has resulted in escalating costs of such basic services as water and electricity. Cost recovery...
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Figure 3. Human computers in the NACA High Speed Flight Station “Computer Room” transcribing raw data from rolls of celluloid film and strips of oscillograph paper and reducing it to standard engineering units with slide rules and electric calculators. Seen here, left side, front to back, Mary “Tut” Hedgepeth, John Mayer, and Emily Stephens. Right side, front to back, Lilly Ann Bajus, Roxanah Yancey, Gertrude “Trudy” Valentine (behind Yancey), and Ilene Alexander. Dryden Flight Research Center Facilities, 1949, NACA (NASA). Photograph courtesy of NASA

Human computers in the NACA High Speed Flight Station “Computer Room” trans...

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Published: 01 March 2018
Figure 3 Human computers in the NACA High Speed Flight Station “Computer Room” transcribing raw data from rolls of celluloid film and strips of oscillograph paper and reducing it to standard engineering units with slide rules and electric calculators. Seen here, left side, front to back, Mary More