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Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and to support deaf oral communication; the ability of deaf subjects to read spectrograms was, moreover, the best evidence for the identification of information-bearing features in a complex speech wave. The sound spectrograph directly influenced information theory, which gave mathematical instructions...
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Labor/Value/Information
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group Labor, value, and information emerge on a continuum in the now long history of commodification because commodification was also an incipient digitization. This emergence positions the social as a substrate of what Jonathan Beller calls “computational capital...
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Telegram conversations of “Information distribution central station of the ...
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Figure 2 Telegram conversations of “Information distribution central station of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,” 4 October 2014. Screenshot courtesy of the author
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Toxic Beauties: MEDICINE, INFORMATION, AND BODY CONSUMPTION IN TRANSNATIONAL EUROPE
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 115–129.
Published: 01 September 2001
...C. Nadia Seremetakis ST 68-06 Seremetakis 10/25/01 3:07 PM Page 115
Toxic Beauties
MEDICINE, INFORMATION, AND BODY CONSUMPTION...
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Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics
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Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 25–49.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Luciana Parisi Duke University Press 2004 Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics
Physics and biology present us with reverse causalities that are without Luciana Parisi
fi nality but testify nonetheless to an action of the future...
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Communication beyond Meaning: ON THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF INFORMATION
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Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 51–73.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... The culturalist allegation that
informationalism equals the triumph of form over matter underestimates
the implications of communication and information theory for our under-
standing of contemporary cultures where informational dynamics are
increasingly gaining priority over the formation of meanings...
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Fragment from The Message Is Murder
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 137–152.
Published: 01 September 2016
... a baseline and shapes the current mathematical and computational consciousness such that what can be recognized as thought, as information, all but excludes as noise, idle speculation, irrationality, baseless outrage, or just bad scholarship the possibility of interrogating the structural and epistemic...
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The Surveillance Commodity, Unequal Exchange, and the (In)Visible Subject in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Elahi’s daily movements, which he began recording in an effort to subvert government surveillance. Taking seriously the idea that information should be treated as a commodity, this article uses Marxist theory to articulate how surveillance data fit within the broader information economy. Drawing from...
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Terror Networks and the Aesthetics of Interconnection
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2010
... aesthetics”—an analytic that informs a wide range of contemporary theory, fiction, film, and new media, and that is a necessary corollary to an era in which interconnection has become a dominant architectural mode, a multivalent metaphor, and even a weapon. A reading of several post–9/11 texts, including...
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The Art of Dissident Domesticity: Julian Assange, King Prempeh, and Ethnographic Conceptualism in the Prison House
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and changing relationships among information, territory, and sovereignty. This article examines two quite distinct, high-profile celebrity instances of dissident domesticity. In the first case, Prempeh I, the last sovereign king of Asante, was exiled by the British from his capital in what is now Ghana...
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Back on the Chain Gang: Logistics, Labor, and the Threat of Infrastructure
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 43–68.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and science of moving goods, people, and information efficiently to maximize profit—inheres in the infrastructures it calls into being. It traces the history of the chain gang through the shackles used to immobilize enslaved people on the ship, in the coffle, and on plantations, contending that such iron...
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Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and social structures complicate surveying them about race and ethnicity. Nor is it possible to precisely measure how many of Wikipedia's biographies are about people from indigenous and nondominant ethnic groups, because most articles lack ethnicity information. While it seems that many...
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Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2023
...‐twentieth‐century ontology of the digital image in these contemporary technologies. While CNNs are multidimensional, their ontology flattens distinctions between background and foreground, between subjects and objects, and even the relations established among the categories of information used to organize...
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Artists as Workers: The Undoing of Yugoslav Socialism and the Politics of Unpaid Artistic Labor
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 83–115.
Published: 01 September 2020
...’ interventions concerning the material conditions for artistic labor to animate the political critique of relationship between art and labor. The study of Yugoslav art workers’ demise reveals the detrimental effects of the bourgeois ideology of autonomy and creativity. Informed by feminist critique...
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Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value: Forms of Disposal
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 69–91.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Seb Franklin Abstract This article takes the presentation of mechanical and informatic models in Samuel Delany's Neveryóna as an occasion to examine the relations of force, abstraction, information, and differential valuation that constitute racial capitalism. In order to do this, the article...
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Technologies of Hope (Fiction, Platforms, Management)
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 51–79.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marc Kohlbry Abstract This article leverages the Nuit Debout social movement in France and contemporary French science fiction to explore the links between information technologies and economic precarity. To accomplish this, it foregrounds a short story born of the movement, Ketty Steward's “ALIVE...
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Affect, Repetition, and Eroticized State Violence in El Salvador's Prisons
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., which has seen its prison population more than double, and to the eroticization of that project’s structural and personal violence, of which these images are an extreme and informative example. It proposes these images are in dialogue with other archives of sexualized carceral violence and a history...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Minkah Makalani This introduction explores the major themes addressed in this special issue, particularly how racial difference both structures the African diaspora and informs how scholars exploring this social formation engage with modes of knowledge production that reshape diaspora. In this way...
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Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 59–81.
Published: 01 March 2009
... interactions in Ghana occur within a broader sociopolitical and cultural terrain that is not limited to heritage tourism. This terrain is configured through Ghana's own historical trajectory and narratives around slavery and race which, in turn, are informed and renegotiated by the country's relationship...
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Feeling Diaspora in Harlem and Havana
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 115–140.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the traffic between the cultural movements in Harlem and Havana as evidence of diasporization, rather than as mere background information for two distinct national movements. In the 1920s and 1930s, the boundary-crossing activity of African American and Afro-Cuban writers and musicians, such as Langston...
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