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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Thulani Davis This article describes the process of looking across post–Civil War political, labor, and social archives for black community formations, black imaginaries around freedom, and fugitive legislative changes in an attempt to recover freed people's theorizing of the political. © Thulani...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 51–67.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo Abstract This article considers choreographer Ligia Lewis's hour‐long ensemble performance Water Will (in Melody) to theorize on the relationship between ecological fugitivity and black fugitive movement. It explores how Lewis's choreography disrupts the colonial space‐times...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 1–34.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Lewis and Helen Hester this reimagination takes shape within a techno‐utopic communist framework. While enticing, such a framework relies on a modernist understanding of institutions that has been critiqued by decolonial and abolitionist theory and risks undervaluing the fugitive underground work...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 43–68.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay explores the road and the chain as material and ideological forms of logistical and infrastructural power. Focusing on threechain gang narratives, John L. Spivak's Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang (1932), Elliot Burns's I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain (1932...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 182–187.
Published: 01 September 2009
... that hope, and being wary of false hope, turn to policy. We suggest that ongoing operations and plans must be seen in fugitive opposition to the widespread attempts to formulate and participate in something called policy. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Peer Review
Stanley Aronowitz: We didn’t...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 77–90.
Published: 01 September 2023
... identitary stances and aims to embrace possibility rather than hold us down. The present conversational piece, fostering critical reflection in/on kinship and interested in evading disciplinary pledges, explores underlying themes of Bey's fugitive theorization, such as undefining, opacity, queer excess...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Andreas Petrossiants Abstract This article argues that, by looking to the generalization of a certain kind of artistic or creative character in paradigms of work, there is a view onto a different kind of relationship between culture and militant action and fugitivity. Here, the term destituent art...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
....” It explores forms of historical storytelling across a broad range of cultural materials, from Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo's 1874 “fugitive coolie” narrative and bilingual Spanish-Chinese labor contracts to the novels of contemporary writers such as Cristina García, Amitav Ghosh, Toni Morrison...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 123–134.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and Harney associate sonic disorder with
the hum of different kinds of knowledge production. In their forthcom-
ing book of essays, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study,
they give the example of the noise in a classroom before the teacher...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 69–92.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in ‘america’ ” in 2017 and later as “‘sick’ in america” in Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien (2020). I'll be referencing the former, for it appeared during Trump's 2017 executive orders and memorandums. 7. Issued on January 25, 2017, section 1 of the order describes “removable...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2018
... incorporates loss in its logics. As Fred Moten and I say, logistics tracks us because it assumes fugitivity. Indeed, what is called surveillance might also be called preemptive logistics . It is possible that all we know of surveillance studies, including its most incisive work in black surveillance like...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 101–115.
Published: 01 June 2004
... the
university and producing fugitivity? If one were to say teaching, one would
be performing the work of the university. Teaching is merely a profession
and an operation of what Jacques Derrida calls the onto-/auto-encyclopedic
circle...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., racialization, and dispossession. 118 Set against these scenes, Montserrat looks to the landscape to try to index a different meaning for blackness. Though Montserrat's digging happens in the squelch and bile of wet clay, these acts feel more quietly attuned to the dry and dusty fugitive memory-digging held...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 67–107.
Published: 01 June 2019
...-theorist Fred Moten. See Moten, In the Break ; Moten, Black and Blur ; Moten, “Erotics of Fugitivity” ; and Moten, Universal Machine . 21 My use of pathological here borrows from David Lloyd’s recent elaboration of the subaltern and the savage in relationship to modern aesthetics. See...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
Published: 01 March 2018
... lost it, no one knows what they have had. In the African American spiritual “Down by the Riverside,” water features as a protagonist in the stories of fugitive slaves who cannot be captured when stepping into the water. Erasure. Imprinted. Traces. When the river is silenced, these histories seep...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 117–118.
Published: 01 March 2014
... shore. plywood sails
the city island past the enclave mirror till the bricks arise.
at the fugitive bar the food be tasting good. kitchenette’s
my cabin and flesh be burning in the hold. I love the way
you smell. your cry enjoys me. let me taste the way you think.
let me do this one more time while...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 73–91.
Published: 01 September 2011
... that loyalty is at
its most suspect, where desire and the future must contend with the most
vagrant and fugitive of prospects, and the legal form of value with the
problem of its reinscription or imposition. In other words, origin and lin-
eage are nowhere more disputed and uneasy than in the frontier...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 83–101.
Published: 01 December 2021
... his life story without words, and it laid bare in strobe-light fashion the history of Black fugitivity in the modern world. In those few seconds, tussling, scratching, grabbing an unholstered taser, fleeing and firing before being felled by two bullets, I saw four centuries flash before my eyes. I saw...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 19–36.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Central Africans transformed the political organiza-
tion of war camps to create sustainable fugitive settlements and employed
common religious beliefs and practices to respond to slavery’s challenges.5
As these and other examples indicate, Africans and their descendants
established social...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 119–121.
Published: 01 March 2014
... books of poems, B. Jenkins
(2010) and Hughson’s Tavern (2008), and a prose piece from his new book,
coauthored with Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and
Black Study (2013). He concluded the reading with the then brand-new...
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