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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in the work of William Gaddis and Conlon Nancarrow, among other other writers and composers. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure” Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano David Suisman...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
...’ imaginative engagements with the #IfIDieInPoliceCustody hashtag memorializing Sandra Bland's death, the author identifies that users craft an anticipatory nonspectatorship , a mode of imaginative witnessing arising from the contexts of technological and visual failure and the situated imaginations of Black...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 91–93.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group A collaboratively written prose poem about failure. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 bodies collectivity failure There is a little secret about normal: most people aren’t. Most people break the rules, most people deviate from the script, most...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Alicia Schmidt Camacho This essay argues that the failures of U.S. immigration enforcement institutions functioned as a strategic policy from 2003 to 2010, when the undocumented population in the United States reached an unprecedented twelve million people. The author examines how the so-called...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 115–133.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in Minnesota, I explore the meaning of the failure of these kinship paradigms in transnational adoption and propose that the psychic and political economies of kinship need to be examined together in light of the growing global diaspora of transnational adoptees. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Robert W. Gehl This paper argues that the failure of MySpace and the rise of Facebook in the social networking site market is due in part to the degrees in which either site associates users, technology, and marketers into a successful “real software abstraction.” Real software abstraction...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
... local and planetary but also reconstitute culture and humanity as a whole. In the second and final part, I explore what their critical reception in American higher education reveals about the failures of postcolonial studies in the age of globalization. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Third World...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 137–148.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of the wild. It does so by offering us utopic visions but also by joining those visions to madness, failure, and the temporality of the belated, darkness, and negativity. Take the work of Nick Cave, a black gay artist who builds what he calls Soundsuits from...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 43–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
... an exponential increase in transplants worldwide. Whereas today allografting is widely hailed as among the greatest medical feats of the twentieth century, xeno is plagued by repeated failures. Successful allotransplants have nevertheless been facilitated in large part by xeno research, because...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
... infrastructural vulnerabilities. Through ethnographic analysis of communication failures in one disaster, we begin to ponder the accumulated, unintentional, infrastructural effects of digital devices.3 When cities suffer dramatic disaster communication failures, rather than tackling infrastructural...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 69–86.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the visceral porosity of the body in this exchange. They announce forces of courage, love, fear, and desire cascading through the body’s energetic channels, even as a medical diagnosis has consolidated that body as a singular success or failure. Serres insists...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 31–34.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of Catastrophe and Exuberance .” Journal of American Studies 46 , no. 2 : 273 – 93 . Clarke Cheryl . 1983 . “ The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community ”. In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology , edited by Smith Barbara , 190 – 201 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 77–84.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and textual flashpoints from the mid-nineteenth century, flashpoints often judged by historians to have been failures: the black settler colonization of Liberia between 1820 and 1860, and a massive Maya uprising on the Yucatán Peninsula that began in 1847...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2014
... role José played in the Social Text collective (he was, together with Randy Martin, its longest-­serving active member), we remain acutely aware that this issue cannot but in some ways enact failure. We do not expect that it 2 Chuh et al...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 67–80.
Published: 01 June 2004
...). 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...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... national funerals, nor official speeches can overcome them. These are not the kind of ghosts that one can ward off with a mechanical phrase. From now on, they will show up as watermarks in the very substance of the system, as the obsession behind our feelings of failure and humiliation...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., the major concerns have been connected to failures of recognition and representation. It is thus the failure of computer vision systems to equally recognize all humans and the identification of biases in the labeling of images or absences of certain categories of people in data sets like ImageNet that have...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 25–65.
Published: 01 December 2006
...- ciples into national spaces outside Europe and the United States clearly management, an seemed to reach a state of failure. This was a time when large financial abstraction coded institutions such as Long Term Capital Management...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 153–161.
Published: 01 December 2015
... probate court scanning for the word negro or woman in a kind of a stupor that threatens to render you intellectually dead. Because in that case the flotsam is not infinite heaps as much as lethargic silence, as failure after failure to find the people you...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to the singularity between the two modes of perception in the following section, let me simply flag that watching constituted an efficacious part of communication for of this road, the DN of the GT Road while watchfulness was a product of a perceived communicative failure of the DN of the Motorway...