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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Max Haiven This essay seeks to contribute to the theoretical groundwork for a cultural studies of finance by recasting a Marxist theory of value toward an analysis of the politics of the imagination under financialized capitalism. My argument is as follows. (1) Social cooperation, creativity...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 103–121.
Published: 01 June 2013
... imposed on African nation-states by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s structural adjustment programs. African creative artists have long tempted their local readerships with the tales of moral corruption, guile, and hard-boiled individualism that are the stock-in-trade of pulp fiction...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of social practice as a medium for contesting racialization. The argument, in short, is that the production of racial difference denotes culture, initiates creativity, gives social dimension to the liberal and urban imaginations, and validates the animating mythologies of the modern—growth, invention...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 77–93.
Published: 01 December 2019
... minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the Global South. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to the creative class and digital producers themselves. If networked lives are always imagined as productive, virtuous, connective, and efficient...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 45–73.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., in fact it demands profound if highly constrained creativity and imagination from nearly every social subject. 25 As the subprime lending debacle demonstrated, this is not limited to those wealthy enough to possess assets: it is a demand made of all social subjects as they are compelled to compete...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 21–55.
Published: 01 December 2018
... could offer a creative site for imagining a vast range of alliances between so-called inhuman, mutant, alien, and deviant or outcast others of all stripes. Rather than view the history of superhero comics as a clear telos from bad metaphorical representations to increasingly good authentic...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 25–44.
Published: 01 December 2010
... to the intertwined problems of mental illness and violence. Unlike policies based on risk, legal scholar Martha Albertson Fineman's concept of “vulnerability” is a flexible way of imagining how “inequalities are produced and reproduced by institutions.” Understanding how universities might produce or exacerbate...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 103–122.
Published: 01 March 2004
...” had, in a sense,
incorporated an element of creativity and imagination from its very incep-
tion. But the extraordinary plea here for the historian “to recover the liv-
ing history of the quotidian,” this appeal to “recuperate...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2009
... that cre-
ative energies supposedly emerge from a creator’s self-exploration, and the
creator’s expressive power derives from imaginative depth. At the same
time, creativity can now be planned, exercised, and executed by careful
formulation...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2005
... philoso-
phers together in the mid-1970s. What mass workers objected to most
was the transfer of human knowledge to machines, reducing life to “dead
labor.” There was an existential, but active and creative, dimension...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that only by wrestling imaginatively with
difficult archival problems can we hope to find new avenues for pondering
and representing history’s most painful and vexing subjects.
This happens only when historians put in the creative work. I learned...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 105–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
... have an appealing story idea, skill as a good writer, much free time, tenacity, much imagination, or observational skill necessary to write a good novel. What should I do?” 28 You could read this and go into a recitation of all the ways it demonstrates the decline of human creativity, or at the very...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2011
... clearly marking them as “citi-
zens of the state.”14 We are immediately struck by the awkward composi-
tion of several photos where the diegetic audience stares intently at the
television, but the television is turned toward the imagined observer of
the photograph and is, for example — as in figure...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 133–153.
Published: 01 June 2005
...-hit Hollywood fi lm was the fi rst, and
probably the most important, task for this high-profi le China visit. With
a pirated fi lm in hand, Evans could praise American creativity, criticize
protectionism, defend globalization, celebrate market liberalization, and
curse political authoritarianism...
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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 (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 109–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to Say No to
his most recent novel in English, Pacific Agony, Benderson has exceeded the
conventions of fiction by creating a style of writing that merges heights of
creative imagination with fictive “anthropological” journeys into outsider...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 123–134.
Published: 01 September 2013
... culls a theory
of chaotic creativity from the unmoored, hyperkinetic, sonic traces left by
a series of unconventional, hard-to-classify punk divas.
In one of the quotes that I use to frame this essay, Emma Goldman,
responding to concerns that anarchism is impractical, that it advocates...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and existential imaginations, tianrenheyi
suggests — though by no means guarantees — the possibility for recuperat-
Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar ing and envisioning a worldly future of healing and being oriented to the
undividedness...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
Published: 01 December 2022
...”) is, as Lieberman describes, “proto-afro-futurist,” in that it imagines technology otherwise through praxis. 55 Coleman and DeFrantz articulate a definition of Afrofuturism that is helpful here because it too connects creativity, technology, and physical experience. They note that Afrofuturism is often theorized...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
Almost four decades after its flamboyant self-declaration and its
equally performative self-annihilation, punk continues to hold meaning
in popular imagination and critical consciousness. The term resonates in
both historical as well as affective...
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