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Untitled. Gramsci Monument, 8/21/2013 [photograph]

Alex Pittman
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391360
Published: 01 March 2014
...Alex Pittman © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Alex Pittman, Untitled, Gramsci Monument, 21 August 2013 [Photograph]. Courtesy of the artist Social Text 118 • Vol. 32, No. 1 • Spring 2014 DOI 10.1215...
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the gramsci monument

Fred Moten
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 117–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391369
Published: 01 March 2014
...Fred Moten © 2014 Fred Moten 2014 the gramsci monument Fred Moten if the projects become a project from outside then the projects been a project forever. held in the projects we the project they stole. we steal the project back and try to give it back to them. come on, come get...
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The Event of the Poem: “the gramsci monument”

José Esteban Muñoz
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 119–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391378
Published: 01 March 2014
...José Esteban Muñoz This piece reflects on two orders of the poetic event. On one hand, it describes Fred Moten’s reading of the poem “the gramsci monument” at the public art project of the same name. On the other, it meditates on the event that the poem registers, or the general antagonism...
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Wallace's Monument and the Resumption of Scotland

Andrew Ross
Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 83–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-83
Published: 01 December 2000
...Andrew Ross ST 65.04 Ross 11/8/00 2:25 PM Page 83 Wallace’s Monument and the Resumption of Scotland Scotland is once again a blip on the radar screen of the “international Andrew Ross community.” Its fledgling parliament...
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Fragments of the Political, or How We Dispose of Wonder

Michael Dutton
Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 109–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1468344
Published: 01 March 2012
...Michael Dutton This article is concerned with the relationship between political intensity and the commodified world. How has that which could be and has been lived so intensely been transformed, marginalized, and disaggregated? What is the cost of this process of taming? Through three monuments...
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Blind Faith: Painting Christianity in Postconflict Ambon

Patricia Spyer
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 11–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-002
Published: 01 September 2008
... painters have been plastering the city's main thoroughfares and Christian neighborhood gateways with portraits of Jesus and Christian symbols. Monumental and assertive in public space, these artifacts perform in several capacities: as visible emblems of Christian territory, as a way of making manifest...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force

Bakirathi Mani
Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1300001
Published: 01 September 2011
... Bakirathi Mani In her solo show, From Paper to Monument, at Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi, the Brooklyn-­based artist Seher Shah displayed thirty drawings and prints. Born in Karachi and raised in Brussels, London, and New York, Shah has exhibited her work...
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From Portbou to Palestine and Back

John Collins
Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 67–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-011
Published: 01 December 2006
...John Collins Duke University Press 2006 Staircase portion of Dani Karavan’s “Passages” monument to Walter Benjamin (Portbou, Spain). Courtesy of the author From Portbou to Palestine and Back Entering the staircase, one is gripped...
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Irvine Welsh's Novel Subjectivities

Jeffrey Karnicky
Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 135–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-3_76-135
Published: 01 September 2003
... consideration of Stirling’s Wil- liam Wallace monument, shows that this passing through always leads in multiple directions. 150 Jeffrey Karnicky Discussing the recent remodeling of the monument, what he calls...
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A Little Grave [photograph]

C. Nadia Seremetakis
Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3427703
Published: 01 March 2016
...C. Nadia Seremetakis © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 A “little grave” beside an official monument in Greece, 2015. Photograph courtesy of C. Nadia Seremetakis Social Text 126 • Vol. 34, No. 1 • March 2016...
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Violence and Video in Cali, Colombia

Kurt Hollander
Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 107–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10910058
Published: 01 December 2023
... clenching a sign with the word resiste was built during the early days of the protests with material donated by the community as a monument to La Primera Línea. Even two years after the protests, the fist, painted with images of La Primera Línea and adorned with several painted iron shields, located...
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Death Drives in the City: or, On a Third-Stream Anamnesis

C. Nadia Seremetakis
Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 75–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3427141
Published: 01 March 2016
... . 2014 . “This Is the Monument of Paul Fyssas in Keratsini” (in Greek) . 18 September , www.loutrakiblog.gr/2014/09/blog-post_543.html (last accessed 5 September 2015) . Marcuse Herbert . 1987 . Eros and Civilization , 2nd ed. London : Routledge . McDonough Thomas F...
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Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question

Nicholas Gamso
Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4223405
Published: 01 December 2017
..., “Gramsci Monument” . 71 Rebuild Foundation, “Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative Now Renting”. 72 Ibid. 73 Copeland, “Dark Mirrors” . 74 Rebuild Foundation, “Chicago: Black Cinema House,” rebuild-foundation.org/chicago/ . 75 Bishop, Artificial Hells , 12 . 76...
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“Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971

George F. Flaherty
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013318
Published: 01 December 2022
... have on an other, useful for describing relations between state and nation as well as an art or architectural monument and spectator. Since at least the Mexican-American War (1846–48), the borderlands were viewed suspiciously from Mexico City as spaces of sex work, illicit commerce, and other forms...
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In the Ruins of Bahla: Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling Walls in an Omani Town

Mandana E. Limbert
Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 83–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-030
Published: 01 June 2008
... the demise of the sultan and when oil reserves are depleted. As the new monuments to the mechanisms and Social Text 95 • Summer 2008 8 5 symbols of state progress and power, such as asphalt roads, are projected...
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Water as Protagonist

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298505
Published: 01 March 2018
... an infrastructural theory of the global South. This is a monumental project calling for new frames of knowledge. Let the water pour over, let it level, let it write an agenda to decolonize itself. In the African American spiritual “Down by the Riverside,” water features as a protagonist in the stories...
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Writing to Change How We Think

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 145–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298732
Published: 01 March 2018
... and occasionally in print. Our fateful encounter with José Esteban Muñoz and Fred Moten at Thomas Hirschorn’s “Gramsci Monument” was in retrospect an opening salvo. 4 How do we think about the event of the poem now? Is poetry a complement, corrective, or challenge to the jargon mongering we stand accused...
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Curating with Counterpowers: Activist Curating, Museum Protest, and Institutional Liberation

Gavin Grindon
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383193
Published: 01 June 2023
... assesses this trajectory's potentials and limits as a cultural strategy for social change. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 activist art institutional critique artistic labor monuments cultural policy A flurry of recent texts and projects have...
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Moscow and Melancholia

Jonathan Flatley
Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 75–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-1_66-75
Published: 01 March 2001
... in the center of Moscow, particularly by two new monumental construc- tions: the statue of Peter the Great by Zurab Tsereteli and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, with its enormous gold domes (see Figures 3, 4, and 5). These two constructions dominated the skyline...
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2020: Momenta Vita

Jayna Brown, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408042
Published: 01 December 2021
... place as they did in the now: the fearful days of quarantine, the bleakness of isolation and mass death, as well as the beautiful destruction and dismantling, the tearing down of statues and the tattooing of monuments. Our hope, however utopian, was that all of this could shift and tilt the world in new...
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