... with the possibility of developing a radically immanent approach to the creation and destruction of value and explores its implications for the concept and politics of evaluation at the heart of contemporary transformations in universities across the global North. In an attempt to dramatize the interstitial spaces...

... visual history that has recently become the subject of both artistic and scholarly re-evaluation. Here, bio-artist Suzanne Anker is interviewed by feminist science studies scholar Sarah Franklin, in an exchange that addresses the visual culture of specimen display and its significance to both art...

... a moment of evaluation and responsibility. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Peer Review Stanley Aronowitz: We didn’t want a peer-reviewed journal. It would be peer review only in the sense that the collective would review it. But we were not going to send it out to people for blind reviews...

... creative writing and theory, and the question of how to evaluate creative submissions. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Peer Review Stanley Aronowitz: We didn’t want a peer-reviewed journal. It would be peer review only in the sense that the collective would review it. But we were not going...

...John Brenkman This essay revisits the “Prospectus” written by the author, Stanley Aronowitz, and Fredric Jameson for Social Text 's first issue and evaluates it with thirty years' hindsight. It focuses on the journal's position regarding Marxism and the then Soviet Union, and its—for the author...

...Laleh Khalili This essay examines the instrumentalization of emotions and affect—especially of happiness—in evaluating the outcome of counterinsurgencies. Traditionally, metrics and statistics have been utilized as the main means of measuring the achievement of military goals. However, given...

... anxieties about complicity and success. The Ruffneck show, by contrast, imagined the decimated spaces of the midcentury welfare state to comprise an alternative ground for conceiving the racial origins of progress and thus for evaluating the epistemologies of contemporary liberalism. The article concludes...

... became shameless to anyone with any knowledge of the university’s position on graduate student unionization. Here was one such question: “How do you supervise, mentor, guide and evaluate [graduate assistants]? Include how often you meet with them individually, how you orient them, how you review...

.... Social movements have developed criteria for evaluating reforms because of awareness of how they can be inadequate, harmful, and demobilizing. These criteria are not a simple checklist for determining a beneficial reform. Rather, they are bases for engaging in debate and speculation as organizations...

... dubious premise or false promise, the associated professional also offers a voice of opportunity to address the gap between the lost mythos of free pursuit of self-development and the capacity to evaluate what fruits still need to be borne...

... that the telos of economic dominance and centralization defi nes all activity within globalization; moreover, it evaluates global cities in relation to a normative model defi ned by the handful of cities that are “most advanced” in their roles...

... issues. Angela Martínez is an independent consultant. She has spent nineteen years working with government and community-based organizations throughout Latin America and in the United States to develop, imple­ ment, and evaluate programs on sexual and reproductive health and rights...

... it included a named target. . . . This policy changed when it became appar- ent that they never would have had the chance to evaluate Mr. Cho. . . . Now a student who writes anything focused on killing should be called in.” 2 At my own university...

...). Failure to make such distinctions results in a befuddled analysis. Ambiguities in Evaluating the Educational Product For Pfeffer and Fong, the criterion for evaluating business schools and their products resides in market prowess. The salaries of newly minted MBAs, and the pitiable...

... to the 2009 Stanford longitudinal study that evaluated 70 percent of US char- Social Text 120 • Fall 2014 3 5 ter school students, fewer than 20 percent of charter schools performed better than regular public schools...

... of modern economic and aesthetic forms as they articulate to emergent mechanisms of academic and economic evaluation.10 There is certainly no consensus about how academic and aesthetic value(s) intersect with neoliberalism’s theoretical...

... of failure, the capacity to be alone, the capacity to concentrate intently, the capacity to evaluate oneself and to evaluate the evaluations of others. It means doing the same thing again and again and again. It means being antisocial, unplugged from social media. It means being able to commit to those...

... is culturalist, if not untrue, is an evaluation that is not fully historicized, since the relationship of culture to politics was not exactly what it is today. In other words, transcultura- tion as developed by Rama possessed some political...

..., researchers typically categorize sites of bias into those found in data, in models, and in the evaluation of the models. 15 For machine learning researchers Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, such forms of bias are connected primarily to what they characterize as a recognition problem, the core issue being...

... as a whole, designers should are visible to its inhabitants. In evaluating the degree to which an information environment makes incorporate such available a recognized and acceptable identity category, ubicomp designers models...