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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 45–73.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Max Haiven Abstract The last forty years of financialization have laid the groundwork for a resurgence of fascist cultural politics. This article expands Hito Steyerl's notion of derivative fascism by placing it in dialogue with Enzo Traverso's theory of postfascism and Randy Martin's exploration...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 51–74.
Published: 01 December 2019
... accumulated by securing its convertibility back into money—its “liquidity.” The opposite, financial illiquidity is capital disaccumulation in Marx’s sense. It follows that the acceptability of capital accumulation depends on making financial market illiquidity politically unimaginable. This limitation...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Max Haiven This essay seeks to contribute to the theoretical groundwork for a cultural studies of finance by recasting a Marxist theory of value toward an analysis of the politics of the imagination under financialized capitalism. My argument is as follows. (1) Social cooperation, creativity...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... If enslavement was defined by this spatial regime of suffocation, the early slave trade extended the grounds for racialization through extensive networks of credit and debt. This financial system established the parameters of enslavement and freedom, bridging shipboard and terrestrial social relations. Early...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
.... This article interrogates this 180-year-long debt legacy and argues for the need to recast our understanding of emancipation processes within the frame of racial capitalism. The article specifically considers the financial dimension of emancipation as constituting an apparatus of what is termed...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 94–101.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of disenchantment: a reminder that diasporic bodies inhabit tactile economies, data streams, born of emotional and financial trajectories that make it impossible to anticipate the ingenious forms of belonging—and exquisite strategies of exclusion—they will ultimately help to erect, however unwittingly? © 2009...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 147–151.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in teaching, in a British business school, between undergraduate students and reports of the current financial crisis, approaching the crisis phenomenologically. The article concludes with a discussion of mutual promises and possession in the world of finance. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Feminism...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 71–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of postindustrial global financial capitalism. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Queer Human Rights in and against China Marxism and the Figuration of the Human Petrus Liu I propose to consider the problem of the human in Marxist and poststruc- turalist theory by examining the case of queer human...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 19–40.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to the financial sector, from political policy to recreation. The article closes with an argument to demilitarize the social and contrast militarizing politics with a politics of irritation. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 militarization race religion secularization martial races...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 137–152.
Published: 01 September 2016
... are offered as a kind of riposte to Marshall McLuhan’s formulation “The medium is the message” at a moment when it has become even more undeniable that the media (linguistic, visual, computational, financial) are the media of racial capitalism. The Message Is Murder is itself part of an investigation of what...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2018
...—a relationship that does not traverse a two-way street. We define and examine natural, technological, human, and financial resources to understand how these resources are moved between ports and mines and the mechanisms by which networked capitalism allocates these resources unequally. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
... a sustained intervention in the function of financial/computational media as part of the quest for liberation and a sustainable communism. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 computational capital labor value information digital culture Is this work? Does this work? For you...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jodi A. Byrd; Alyosha Goldstein; Jodi Melamed; Chandan Reddy This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 41–61.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to the homogeneous time of repayment that it imposes on others. Debt is not simply a financial economy but also crucially a broader social relation, production of subjectivity, and creation of a temporal exception through which US settler modernity functions and continually attemptsto re-create itself. Focusing...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2018
... repertoire of devaluating practices and conditions these cases raise. This essay considers how the lawsuits against the USDA collectively convey the dynamics of the colonial present in relation to predicaments of land, government, and financialization. At stake is not only how forms of colonial governance...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 19–48.
Published: 01 June 2013
... practices of social experience of surplus populations that are at once the consequence and means of new forms of value production in the financialized global economy. I consider the differences between the aesthetics of dilation and the aesthetics of abidance as attempts by Jia and Mendoza, respectively...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Benjamin Tausig As a global financial crisis rippled through the late 2000s and early 2010s, with mass political movements rising in its wake, many journalists and critics in the English-language press asked an anxious question: where are the protest songs? But the question was begged: such songs...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 25–65.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to capital, or in terms of financial pressures brought to bear on already sexualized sub- jects. Here, again, capital occupies a space external to and distinct from sexuality.3 In such accounts the sexuality of people and communities...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 83–106.
Published: 01 March 2013
... investment houses like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The two men with the greatest responsibility for federal financial policy had decided that the moment had come to implement the $700 billion res- cue plan they had prepared but were holding in reserve until they could wait no longer. Bernanke...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 37–66.
Published: 01 June 2004
... was the 1980 pas- sage of the federal Bayh-Dole Act, which allowed universities for the first time to retain title to the inventions of their employees. The intent of the legislation was to give universities financial incentives to patent useful tech- nologies, ones that would then be licensed to an industry...