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Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 4 Oppose Book Worship is the text in which Mao famously decrees, “No investigation, No right to speak.” Although Mao does not anticipate the possibility that book worship might itself constitute a form of investigation, it is arguably the methodology of this article. Photograph courtesy More
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
... clay performances, this article builds toward an ecocritical framework that takes account of the literal dimensions of what might otherwise fall into the trappings of an abstract, conceptual affinity. That is, existing as conceptually closer to nonhuman nature carries duties and responsibilities, labor...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the strike has generated, the article functions as a parable, relaying the complex value-ecology of the Joanina Library in Coimbra, Portugal, with its imperial and enlightened symbolisms and its colony of bats, as a singular story that might help us envisage some elements of what might be at stake...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., it makes visible and intelligible some unarticulated and unarticulable assumptions about bioscience as a natural and exclusive framework for comprehending and addressing HIV/AIDS. In particular, it suggests that the bioscientific paradigm “immunity,” which lies at the very center of HIV/AIDS, might...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
Published: 01 December 2009
... select Pakistani, Kashmiri, and Indian texts that are marked, in form and content, by the irresolution produced by the LOC, in order to illustrate how this irresolution might affect the nationalisms concerned. In particular, a short story by Kashmiri author A. G. Athar enables me to conclude the article...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 89–107.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... How might this specificity allow these artists to elucidate aspects of contemporary capitalism’s cultural logic that are all too often invisible to people living in other parts of the world? How might it allow them to reframe or gain new traction on what Fredric Jameson once called a “radical cultural...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2008
... fragmentation more generally characteristic of our times, the paper aims to expand our understanding of what the visual might be. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Blind Faith Painting Christianity in Postconflict Ambon Patricia Spyer Not only Christ but the whole universe disappears...
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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 (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of interconnection might help us better understand the entangled webs of transnational capitalism. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Terror Networks and the Aesthetics of Interconnection Patrick Jagoda In its analysis of modern warfare, post-­1968 political theory has fre- quently treated...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
Published: 01 March 2011
... that we might need to conceive of ourselves as paradoxical beings precisely insofar as we are living beings. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All Ed Cohen Life is a window of vulnerability. It seems...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the while traversing the order of theory and experience, thinking and being, the enduring and the effervescent. Rather than gesturing toward conceptual totality, structural unity, or analytical transcendence, we might rehabilitate and reanimate through oneness an undivided analytical and ontological...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 75–98.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., emplotting James’s engagement with the Missourian sharecroppers within a deeper, circum-Caribbean history of agrarian revolt. Taylor argues that although rural subalterns might be fated to disappear from narratives of national capitalist development, James’s writings show how their scripts of resistance...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by suggesting that, instead of viewing queer theory and Marxism as intellectually incompatible or historically successive projects, we might productively reconceptualize them as subjectless critiques commonly concerned with the problem of social structuration. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 49–76.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Christina B. Hanhardt; Jasbir K. Puar; Neel Ahuja; Paul Amar; Aniruddha Dutta; Fatima El-Tayeb; Kwame Holmes; Sherene Seikaly This roundtable asks what queer studies might offer to an analysis of debates on campus safety. New approaches in queer studies take as their object of study not only sex...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 27–51.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., the fascist spatial imaginary cannot conceptualize thresholds, states of indistinction where the inside‐outside binary blurs, and that dwelling within the threshold (rather than closing it) might be a tactic to disrupt the power of fascist spatial logics. References Adorno Theodor W. , Frenkel...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
... is proposed to sketch out a form of cultural production that does or might lay waste not only to institutional targets of critique but also to the structurally immanent belief in institutional reform that underlies the aesthetics of that critique. It is an invitation to reconsider some key myths...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
... imperial judiciary was based on how magistrates performed during interrogations. These two motivations for keeping secrets depended on one another, as subalterns kept secrets in an effort to thwart the power of judges and judges themselves guarded secrets that might otherwise show that they could...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Ed Cohen In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges , US citizens can now claim a right to marriage without regard to their genital anatomy. No doubt this genital indiscrimination has much to recommend it. Yet we might wonder why this achievement represents...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the overwhelming question that has haunted the subculture—“What is emo?”—it is also interested in thinking less about emo as subculture and more about emo as a kind of structure: the critical periphery of normativity, from which we might begin to develop new insights into what it means to identify normative...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of the late 1970s and early 1980s, reimagining and, to some degree, refunctioning the history of the early Los Angeles punk rock scene in an effort to better understand what queer negativity might mean. The essay proposes that negativity can be strangely utopian while simultaneously dystopian. It can...