... Gebhardt. New York: Continuum. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996 . Modernity at large:Cultural dimensions of globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Applegate, Celia. 1990 . A nation of provincials: The German idea of Heimat . Berkeley: University of California Press. Berdahl, Daphne...

...Tina M. Campt When and where do we “see” the emergence of a black German subject? Where do we encounter a visual instantiation of a black subject who is internal to German society and partakes of a relationship to this society that is neither transplanted, transitional, nor transitory, but instead...

...Theodor W. Adorno This lecture examines American and European understandings of the concept of culture and highlights the need for developing critical thought instead of yielding to the strength of the status quo in either setting. At the heart of the contrast between American and German culture...

.... It rejects the opposition between the allegedly profound German Kultur and the “mere civilization” of the United States. The introduction concludes by highlighting the main challenges of translating “ Kultur and Culture”: the author's complex sentences and the characteristics of a spontaneous, freely held...

...Theodor W. Adorno This article explores the notion of contribution and the role of emigrant intellectuals in relation to their new cultural context. Using the example of German exiles in the United States, Adorno suggests that if emigrants find the demands for intellectual independence in discord...

... and Frank Guridy, “Beyond the Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino America.” Tina M. Campt is associate professor of women’s studies and history at Duke University. Her publications include Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich...

... it from the famous Manifesto of the Communist Party of 1848, written by Pottier’s German contempo- raries Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with its final lines: “Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!” (“Proletarians of all countries, unite Social Text 92, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 2007...

... lectures on the experience and meaning of emigration, and on the differences between U.S. and German culture, are translated into English for the first time in this issue of Social Text. Dohra Ahmad is assistant professor of English at St. John’s University, where she teaches courses...

..., New German Critique, and Telos, for example), the commitment to making significant texts in foreign languages available to English-language readers has been central to our editorial col- lective’s understanding of the journal’s mission. Over the past thirty years, Social Text has published...

... is of the opinion that in the case of foreigners, whose education is significantly different from that usually to be found at German schools, a dispensation of having fulfilled the triennium should be granted only in quite special...

... of Anna Veltfort The fact that Veltfort and Casal mastered the same languages and cultural codes, however, veiled their divergent personal histories. Seven years younger than Casal, Veltfort was born in 1945 to German parents and migrated to Cuba in 1962. Originally critical...

...—is once again an elusive master signifier, perennially plagued with ambiguities and uncertainties even as its salience seems ever more pronounced. 3 Today all of Europe is newly obsessed with its identity. In this regard, the long-standing German obsession with self-interrogation in the aftermath...

... to represent the law. Less familiar to the Western genre, however, is the character of Dr. King Schultz (Chris- toph Waltz). A German immigrant and expert bounty hunter, it is Schultz who, in the film’s decisive moments, tutors and encourages Django...

... Markets, Mediating Labors, and the Branding of East German Culture at Super Illu Dominic Boyer 9 The Senses of Water in an Omani Town Mandana E. Limbert 35 Philoctetes Revisited: White Public Space and the Political Geography of Public Safety...

... base: thus the Seventh Cavalry exterminating Plains bison, German troops decimating the herds of the Herero, French marines destroying the rice stores of Tonkin, and so on. But the work of imperial armies was usually incomplete...

... for their “crime against humanity,” or whenever the German (for a while West German) government memorializes or apologizes in various forms to the Jewish victims, this inexpressible anguish and hopelessness are once again induced among the Chinese. The discourses surrounding this historical...

... 2013 13 The more strictly comparative moment is when the Allied forces pushed the German armies back across the western parts of Europe and entered German territory in 1944/45. This process had involved carpet-­bombing...

... Chubanshe). English versions of some of her articles are published in the collection Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in Dai Jinhua’s Works (Verso). Her books and articles have also been trans- lated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Gloria Davies...

..., the Black American “had lost all rewards of honor which he had previously won.” In this way, Miller interpreted the heroic deeds of Black soldiers in the First World War as a world-altering intervention to save Europe’s White citizens from German empire and as a resurgence of a long tradition through which...

... to denote the “sight of immediate reality” for mass consumption draw from residual aesthet- ics no longer central to current modes of production. In the original 1936 German essay, Benjamin used the phrase blaue blume, or blue flower...