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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Paul A. Silverstein ST 65.02 Silverstein 11/8/00 2:24 PM Page 25
Sporting Faith
ISLAM, SOCCER, AND THE FRENCH NATION-STATE
On 18 September 1989, a week...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 97–105.
Published: 01 December 2008
... a close analysis of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's February 2008 proposed educational initiative to teach the meaning of the Holocaust to every French fifth grader. Sarkozy calls upon the specter of dead Jewish child-victims in order to produce a supposedly universal social body in the present...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 115–125.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in Paris in September, and his open letter to Maurice Thorez in October, in which he resigned from the French Communist Party. The editorial note places the two pieces in the context of the political currents of French colonialism at the time (on the eve of the Algerian revolution) and of Césaire's own...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire's Lettre à Maurice Thorez , which appears here in a new translation by Chike Jeffers, is the Martinican poet, playwright, theorist, and politician's letter of resignation from the French Communist Party (PCF). He first explains his resignation by making reference...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 94–101.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Michael Ralph How does using the French term for jet lag, décalage , to theorize the gap in time and space that structures diasporic articulation encourage us to think of the period between the dawn of formal decolonization and the present as not merely a structure but an atmosphere...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 51–69.
Published: 01 March 2012
... argue that Althusser's Maoism and his structuralism were both answers to the specific theoretical and political impasses confronting French Marxism in the 1960s. In a second part, I analyze how Althusser's Maoist students applied some of these ideas to their political activities. Finally, I turn...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 143–160.
Published: 01 June 2016
...” in the New Left Review , Jameson looks back at the essay and considers the current state of capitalism, theory, art, and culture in relation to the concepts he adopted in 1984. Jameson is Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, professor of romance studies (French), and director...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 51–79.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marc Kohlbry Abstract This article leverages the Nuit Debout social movement in France and contemporary French science fiction to explore the links between information technologies and economic precarity. To accomplish this, it foregrounds a short story born of the movement, Ketty Steward's “ALIVE...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 49–71.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kadji Amin; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue...
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 2. Counterclockwise from upper left: Michael Mandiberg, JCOPE Comprehensive Ethics Seminar Training, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM, August 05, 2020 (2020). French Landscape at the Margins of Survival, 1:00–2:00 PM, August 10, 2020 (2020). National Phonebank with Artists for Biden/Harris, 6:00–8
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 27–47.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with a colonial
battle that took place not in Algeria, but in the metropole. This historical
28 Harrison ∙ Staging Palestine in France-Algeria
detour via France-Algeria is necessary to flesh out the figure of Palestine
in French and Algerian imaginaries, and, I will argue...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 June 2010
... been
expressed by some of our adversaries, and even by some of our friends.
Social Text 103 • Vol. 28, No. 2 • Summer 2010
DOI 10.1215/01642472-2009-071 © 2010 Duke University Press; French original © 1956 Présence Africaine 12 7...
Journal Article
Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
Published: 01 December 2008
...
In the 2005 French action film District B13, in which Luc Besson offers
up a merely vehicular script through which to showcase the spectacular
acrobatics of Paris’s (more accurately, the banlieues [suburbs] of Paris’s)
newest offering to choreographed martial-artistry, parkour, a cop...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2004
... is written in standard French
rather than Creole, Chamoiseau’s novel embodies its creolized status in
multiple ways. For instance, Chamoiseau copes with the ethical dilemma
of representing the subaltern by including an authorial persona...
Journal Article
Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2012
...- in Postsocialism the Post- in Posthumanism?
and politics. If postcolonial studies had in the past unabashedly privi-
leged Western European colonialisms (especially British and French), the
post – Cold War present demands the study of the Soviet Empire as well as
other non-European empires and colonialisms...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): np.
Published: 01 March 2005
... on crossover represen-
tations of African American women.
Sylvère Lotringer is a professor of French literature and philosophy
at Columbia University and the editor of Semiotext(e). He is generally
credited for introducing French theory in America. He recently edited
Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 149–175.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
he penned his own response in the form of the “Report on the National
war and the
and Colonial Questions at the Fifth Congress of the Communist Interna-
means of tional,” and the later French Colonization on Trial. The bold accusation
against...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2004
... allegory” in Xala, to consult the French original. Although
Clive Wake’s English translation is competent, the French is slightly but
significantly different; this passage concludes (in my deliberately literal
translation...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 11–36.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... France calls
this “comunitarism” and says that it promotes ghettos, exclusion, poverty,
race riots, and religious extremism that can ultimately lead to actions such as
the London bombings. French Equal Opportunities Minister Azouz Begag
has urged the government to overturn...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 9–20.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Stefano Harney Duke University Press 2002 Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani
Kropotkin’s history of the French Revolution has a revealing chapter on Stefano Harney
anarchists.1 Kropotkin notes that they were greatly feared by both...
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