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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 81–84.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., “the unions are still good for lots of things.” He meant it. At their heyday, the unions were community institutions, embedded in the everyday life of the country, useful beyond their membership, which even at the height of their power was only a third of American workers. Studying with Stanley...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Jennifer Wenzel Abstract This essay discusses “Forms of Life” in two senses: first, infrastructure as a social process that fosters particular forms of collective life and second, the agency/vitality imputed to infrastructure. The essay considers an unremarked ambivalence in energy humanities about...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and for men) is conscripted by racialized capitalism. Refining my initial questions into a less subtle iteration: What kind of affective labor is demanded by visual representations of imperiled black life? What kinds of image-making practices make this labor visible? What forms of kinship...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 4. Life vs. Capital—training school for climate activists. Photograph by the author.
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Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 2. Gordon Parks, untitled (1952). From “A Man Becomes Invisible,” Life , August 25, 1952.
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1. Poster for the conference Future Promises: The Life and Work of Stanley Aronowitz.
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 55–74.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Erica R. Edwards; Paul Nadal; Jasbir K. Puar; Neferti X. M. Tadiar Abstract Neferti X. M. Tadiar discusses her book Remaindered Life with Erica R. Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir K. Puar. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright...
View articletitled, On Remaindered <span class="search-highlight">Life</span> : Neferti X. M. Tadiar in Conversation with Erica R. Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir K. Puar
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 53.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Cover art by Lyra Garcellano, After Amorsolo's Planting Rice (1924) , 2019. Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Cover art by Lyra Garcellano, After Amorsolo's Planting Rice (1924), 2019. ...
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Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Cover art by Lyra Garcellano, After Amorsolo's Planting Rice (1924) , 2019.
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 71–73.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... As the “theoretical anchor” of cold-war
political culture, the theory of totalitarianism enacted a displacement of
fascism outside the main historical currents of Western moral, political,
and intellectual life. In the hands of its most important intellectual archi-
tect, Hannah Arendt, it short-circuited her...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Eric Stanley This article examines forms of queer (non)sociality I call near life that are forced to exist, as nonexistence, outside the bounds of possessive humanism. Through a reading of the brutal murders and disarticulation of a number of trans/queer people, I suggest the legal category...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 51–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Heather Latimer This article discusses Giorgio Agamben's work on “bare life,” or life with no political meaning. It argues that there is a critical absence in Agamben's work when it comes to women and gender, and it examines how the reproductive body complicates his concept of bare life and its...
View articletitled, Bio-Reproductive Futurism: Bare <span class="search-highlight">Life</span> and the Pregnant Refugee in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the existence of a negative territoriality and community of migrants, without which this border ceases to be. I therefore read Urrea’s narrative as tracing the “bare life” that serves as the border’s originary sphere of indistinction between “legal” statuses (documented/undocumented), territorialities (dweller...
View articletitled, Hinging on Exclusion and Exception: Bare <span class="search-highlight">Life</span>, the US/Mexico Border, and Los que nunca llegarán
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Julian Reid Duke University Press 2006 Life Struggles
WAR, DISCIPLINE, AND BIOPOLITICS
IN THE THOUGHT OF MICHEL FOUC AULT...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 19–48.
Published: 01 June 2013
... neoliberalism as exemplified in the cinema of Jia Zhangke and Brillante Mendoza and situated within the regional context shared by China and the Philippines. I look at the practices of attention of these filmmakers and the specific forms of rendering what I call “life-times” of disposability, life-producing...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2015
... structurally undergird the same type of harm it otherwise purports to advocate against. Accordingly, the article considers how black women “in the life,” women who are involved in drug use and prostitution, women who are, ultimately, the most literal embodiment of the “nappy-headed ho,” become the targets...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 149–159.
Published: 01 December 2014
... public or private vision of homosexuality by some of its members, can be explored. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Unpacking My Files
My Life as a Queer Brigadista
José Quiroga
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders
on the chaos...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 neurodiversity black life university But the student has a habit, a bad habit. She studies. She studies but she does not learn. If she learned they could measure her progress, establish her attributes, give her credit. But the student keeps studying...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to enumerate and digitize early modern black diasporic life. The article engages those critiques in light of black diasporic communities’ battles for justice and redress and the forms these have taken online, such as Afrofuturism, eBlack Studies, and Digital Alchemy. It argues that, while digitizing the study...
View articletitled, Markup Bodies: Black [<span class="search-highlight">Life</span>] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads
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Published: 01 December 2017
Figure 2 My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult promotional photograph circa 1992. Courtesy of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
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