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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 107–112.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group A collaboratively written prose poem about activism and feelings. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 affect collectivity hopelessness joy mood You go to the protest; there are pink pussy hats everywhere; you feel excited for new people...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 1–20.
Published: 01 December 2018
... for an open-ended future? For whom are the ends of the future open to make and pursue? Under conditions of great hopelessness, humor is essential. So, too, is the embrace and cultivation of failure, as Jack Halberstam has shown. 15 Bad attitude is a crucial resource, as we learn from Muñoz’s...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 161–165.
Published: 01 December 2014
... political and material effects. In this manner, they mark not a hopeless but a hopeful futurity. Queerness is always in the horizon. We already discover this promise embedded in his early work. In Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 19–40.
Published: 01 December 2016
... down. Between hope and hopelessness, hopeless optimism and optimistic hopelessness, then, lies a bubbling, boiling irritation: the felt irritation of disappointment in one direction and the displacing, mobilizing irritation of dis -appointment, in the other. In the compulsions of that divide lie...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 June 2019
... or ability to uplift the refugee; it is clear that absorption into nationality has no guarantees. The absence of false optimism does not mean that the refugee is hopeless, however. Indeed, she wants more for herself, and particularly for her children to “do better than me.” 42 What she gives us instead...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 51–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., but in the film all women mysteriously stop being able to stay pregnant. Connected to this is how the world reacts to this infertility. While the political effects of global sterility in the novel are apathy, hopelessness...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 59–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
... describes as “an exercise in learning how the most mundane text performs what it means, and how it translates Addendum evokes both a sense of hopelessness and a solace in response to an encroaching biopolitics. Abdi’s is one out of the many cases...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 115–122.
Published: 01 December 2007
... in their rebellions. The situation is therefore hopeless. Optimism only plays into the agenda of the corporation, by furthering its ends. Optimism is conservative — but then, what isn’t? I gather this is what Archibald calls the “romantic paradigm...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 117–123.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in droves. As Muñoz writes about Chelsea Girls (and I quote here at length): The younger poet notes a sense of “hopelessness” and feeling like a jerk as she works to take care of the older man, whose attention waxes and wanes. The relationality is not about simple positivity...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 39–57.
Published: 01 September 2003
... this disconcerting effect, it presented a profoundly hopeless prognosis for the inhabitants of this cultural category. Paradoxically, the equally impoverished children of families in the nonurbanized Third World were spared such a somber assessment of their ability to respond positively to later-life...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The subject that is dead — slaughtered and silenced — identifies a site of hopelessness but also a site where hope resides. In the intellectual tradition of the early twentieth century, the human is thus figured both as a bloody corpse and as a fetus waiting to be born. These narratives posi...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 75–98.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to this pressing question, James published a series of articles in Labor Action, the organ of the newly formed Workers Party (WP). Collectively titled “With the Sharecroppers,” these articles undertake an ethnographic account that juxtaposes the economic hopelessness of the sharecroppers to the particu...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., and hopelessness. Here, then, are all the ingredients of a narrative about Asian Amer- ica’s own culture of poverty, a crucial piece of the broader postindustrial narrative. The ever-expanding segment of working-poor Asian immi- grants is now thoroughly explained...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
... freedom. At least those issues are not hopeless. And I prefer doing things that are not hopeless.”40 Han’s failure to comment on the perks of writing “low” realism is matched by his silence on the remoteness of his high-flying lifestyle from the everyday discontents that his social commentary...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2008
... that Kathleen Stewart and Susan Harding describe in their influential essay,12 become representations of these contradictory forces of hope and hopelessness, and of fear, which Massumi posits as the most economical expression of form of late capital that we...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
... at a hopeless juncture, and the BJP and Hindutva are not the only reasons for the disarray. I consistently look for hope in politics and struggle at the margins. The change in state government and the arrival of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra have brought a greater margin of liberty for progressive forces...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 67–85.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to prevent migrants from ever reaching the dry land of Europe. Each migrant flees his or her own personal enclosure: war, dis- ease, hopelessness, famine. Each enters the vast openness of the sea. And in the sea, many find a place of burial...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121–139.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Eye for the Hopeless Guy23 Who is appeased through the motions of shaving the facial and head hair of prisoners before they are taken to Guantánamo Bay? These bodies are not only being commanded to the restoration...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 113–133.
Published: 01 June 2008
... metal.” “In the End” appeared on Hybrid Theory, released in 2000 for Warner Brothers. Williams told a psychiatrist that the song “reflected his feelings of depression and hopelessness,” but that it did not cause the shootings. The note was signed, “Sorry Dad I love you.” See Greg Moran’s story...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to subsidize an uncompetitive sector. Cut loose by the state, farmers face impossible choices. Increasing numbers have been taking their own lives. The climate insurgency in Delhi is a defiant antithesis to such gestures of hopelessness. Consider the Indian farmer protests as an example...