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Plasticity and Fungibility: On Sylvia Wynter’s Pieza Framework

Max Hantel
Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 97–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8164752
Published: 01 June 2020
... economy through multiple forms of human fungibility. Reading this intervention alongside and against her deployment of neural plasticity, the author reconsiders the relationship between race, gender, and class in the field of Wynter studies and argues for recentering the pieza framework in struggles...
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Introduction: Race, the State, and the Malleable Body

Kyla Schuller, Jules Gill-Peterson
Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8164716
Published: 01 June 2020
... allegedly possess a threatening fungibility and thus volatility as a group. Within biopolitics, whiteness is valorized as plasticity of the individual body, which connotes potential, resilience, and dynamic transformation. Racialized bodies are freighted with a different kind of plasticity, one ascribed...
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“One Unique You”: Affective Attachments and DNA Testing as Ethnotechnological Apparatus

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, Katia Schwerzmann
Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174982
Published: 01 March 2023
... of the efficacy of the longing for the singularized and “scientifically” legitimized identity and origin that genomics companies promise to offer. Further, this longing exists as human beings become increasingly fungible through global capital and the systematic dispossession of structures of belonging resulting...
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Bodysnatching as Entanglement; or, You’ve Been (Relation)shipped

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298541
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the brilliance of this film in this uneasy present. It allows Get Out to deconstruct the national-popular and present blackness as both mercurial and dangerously fungible. This fungibility is further revealed in the implicit class dynamic at play in these two figures, the bohemian photographer Chris...
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“Beat It like a Cop”: The Erotic Cultural Politics of Punishment in the Era of Postracialism

Tryon P. Woods
Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1958881
Published: 01 March 2013
..., poor, single, independent, and sexually active black woman could even be violated in the first place — reflecting, in short, the insights of black feminists such as Spillers for whom the black woman’s relation to civil society is the fungible...
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Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities

Jodi A. Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, Jodi Melamed, Chandan Reddy
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362325
Published: 01 June 2018
..., an embarrassing barbecue,” Moten acknowledges how “the ownership society” continues its brutal drive toward enclosing our common capacity and our capacity for the commons. Building on questions of the spatialities of settler colonial geographies, Tiffany Lethabo King, in her recent work on Black fungibility...
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Broken Automatons and Barbed Ecologies in Ligia Lewis's Choreographic Imaginary

Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 51–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8903606
Published: 01 June 2021
... in the present-day Dominican Republic, the country where Lewis was born. Blackness (and, in some spaces in the Americas, indigeneity) as laboring and fungible has been visually and kinetically represented as a set of physical movements, facial expressions, and sets of approved grammatical structures...
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Global Society Must Be Defended: BIOPOLITICS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

Leerom Medovoi
Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 53–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-027
Published: 01 June 2007
... in which cultures would remain more or less distinctive (no need to fear homogeneity), yet would become increasingly available to all through their fungibility. One might say that “globalization” applied neoliberal market promises to culture...
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Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration

Dylan Rodríguez
Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3125689
Published: 01 September 2015
...- ible to the sociological range of race relations, from plural societies to apartheid and colonization). Different schemas of racialization permeate the critical scholarly and activist fields, suggesting both a fungibility and paradigmatic hierarchy...
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The Gift of Freedom

Kennan Ferguson
Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 39–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-026
Published: 01 June 2007
... is an abstraction. Gifts, however, are physical objects: they hold concrete economic value even if they are not traded thus. But free- dom is neither a copper headpiece nor a container of seal oil; it cannot be fungibly transferred in like a physical good. Freedom, as a concept, can- not corporeally be given...
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On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project

Susan Stryker
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9034432
Published: 01 September 2021
... by dwelling in and moving through a built space that had been organized in a particular way that beliefs and worldviews manifest in a spatial dimension but that the architectonics of a given space are more fundamental than whatever program activates it. I saw that a certain fungibility could pertain even...
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Homeland Insecurities: Racial Violence the Day after September 11

Muneer Ahmad
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 101–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-101
Published: 01 September 2002
... identifiable by their turbans and long beards, have borne a disproportionate brunt of the violence. (Two of the five peo- ple killed were Sikh.) This violence depends on a fungibility of “Middle Eastern–looking” or “Muslim-looking” people...
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Activisms and Epistemologies: Problems for Transnationalisms

Laura Briggs
Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 79–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-012
Published: 01 December 2008
... “single authored” (neither are ours, if we only dared to admit it). The work of researching these genealogies and the development of their intellectual traditions is, I am arguing, not fungible, but necessary. This might, of course, require...
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Introduction: Left of Queer

David L. Eng, Jasbir K. Puar
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 1–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8680414
Published: 01 December 2020
... of subjectless critique, for example Hortense Spillers’s discussion of “ungendering” in “Mama’s Baby and Papa’s Maybe,” which is the basis of Snorton’s discussion of fungibility and fugitivity. In addition, Sylvia Wynter’s taking up of the parameters of the human in “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power...
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Against Schooling: EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CLASS

Stanley Aronowitz
Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 13–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-2_79-13
Published: 01 June 2004
... of which has proven fungible. Religion, the law, and, among kids, school authorities face the obsta- cles erected by the powerful rewards and punishments meted out by the “clubs” to which people are affiliated. At a historical conjunction...
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The Ground Not Given: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger

Alyosha Goldstein
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362373
Published: 01 June 2018
... Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–185 . New York : Routledge . King Tiffany Lethabo . 2016 . “ The Labor of (Re)Reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly) ”. Antipode 48 , no. 4 : 1022 – 39 . Kish Zenia Leroy...
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Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time

Kathryn Yusoff
Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7286240
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and fungibility). In the reification of Earth in formation with subjective modes outside of white Western Man (deftly articulated by Sylvia Wynter), racial subsidies are what form late liberalism’s substratum or extraction zone, thereby demanding a radical revaluation of what Césaire called the “measure...
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On Race, Violence, and So-Called Primitive Accumulation

Nikhil Pal Singh
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 27–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3607564
Published: 01 September 2016
... as a directly violent, and yet also typically flexible and fungible mode of ascription, at first might be said to retain important affinities with the conscription, criminalization, and disposability of poor, idle, and/or surplus labor: the historical process of forcibly divorcing “the producers from the means...
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“Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971

George F. Flaherty
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013318
Published: 01 December 2022
... Ramos, and Ramírez Vázquez's lieutenant Rafael Miajres, oversaw the draft and final master plan for Ciudad Juárez between 1958 and 1962. The plans were constant in approaching urban space as fungible property, to be redeveloped for state purposes at will and with little regard for historical uses...
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Strange Bedfellows: Black Feminism and Antipornography Feminism

Jennifer C. Nash
Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 51–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-010
Published: 01 December 2008
... of Auschwitz.”19 For MacKinnon, there is a basic fungibility to racialized tropes in pornography: all racially or ethnically marked women are exploited “as women” and are the most exploited of women. Despite the interchangeability of racial and ethnic...
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