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Actional Orientalism: Queer Liberalism and Homonationalist Regimes of Grievability in Dragon Age: Inquisition
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2024
...: the figure of the massified Oriental. The massified Oriental haunts Asianness, and retains East and Southwest Asia as its primary cultural referents, but the deterritorialization of Orientalism as an epistemic apparatus locates Orientalism in the realm of affect rather than geography. Thus, this paper...
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Orientalism and the Open Horizon of Secular Criticism
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Stathis Gourgouris Duke University Press 2006 Orientalism and the Open Horizon of Secular Criticism
I have considered Edward Said’s work at length on various occasions in Stathis Gourgouris
the past, concerning problems of nationalism or comparative literature...
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JJ Chinois's Oriental Express, or, How a Suburban Heartthrob Seduced Red America
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 193–217.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Karen Tongson Duke University Press 2005 JJ Chinois’s Oriental Express, or,
How a Suburban Heartthrob Seduced Red America
This essay was composed before eleven states—mostly...
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China
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 63–66.
Published: 01 September 2009
...David L. Eng; Teemu Ruskola How should we go about interpreting, reading, and understanding “China” as a social text, in the face of persistent Orientalism and self-Orientalism, in an age when the ghosts of socialism are still all around us? Given its semicolonial history and its passage through...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 17–38.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., security, mobility, and comfort of the white citizenry. The care-oriented liberalism emplaced by the New Deal was rooted in a biopolitical imperative to “make live” the valorized white portion of the population. According to the neo-Lamarckians, experiences of and dispositions toward care had also...
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Queer Theory and the Specter of Materialism
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
... demonstrates that the material has functioned as a kind of spectral presence in queer theorizing, an enabling form of haunting that keeps critics worrying productively about the best way to stay true to the radically anticipatory orientation of early queer theory. The specter of the material provides...
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Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
Published: 01 December 2022
... forms for articulating future worlds with a greater focus on care. This analysis proposes ruinous speculation as an affirmative form of future thinking that orients toward infrastructures that enable human and nonhuman worlds to thrive and away from infrastructures that reinforce the violent hierarchies...
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Black Soil
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Kimberly Bain Abstract This article turns to the minor Black matter of soil to map a provisional theory of Black alchemy. Black alchemy names an erotic and ethical orientation toward the Dead and dead matter. Sifting the metonymic, metaphysical, and material properties between (Black fleshly...
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Postspatial, Postcolonial: Accessing Palestine in the Digital
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
Published: 01 September 2020
... these discursive nodes to formulate an understanding of space that imagines decolonial futurity. This future-oriented political practice works toward a vision of Palestine determined by Palestinians, as opposed to limiting pragmatic wars of maneuver. This inquiry therefore is centrally concerned with the ways...
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The Seed Keepers
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... The colonial archive's formal organization and orientation to preserving dead or disappearing objects also opens space to investigate the proliferation of archive-based artworks by contemporary Palestinian artists such as Larissa Sansour and Jumana Manna. Sansour and Manna's artworks demonstrate that the value...
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The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
Published: 01 March 2011
... influenza (HPAI), and most recently a novel influenza A (H1N1) also known as swine flu. While these contagious matters have received considered and considerable attention, the biomedically oriented responses that they have provoked also raise a few important conceptual questions about what we mean when we...
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Sharing Time: C. L. R. James and Southern Agrarian Movements
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 75–98.
Published: 01 June 2012
... understandings of agrarian politics, which suggest that sharecropping is a transitory phenomenon that will disappear with the full subsumption of rural economies into capital. Interrupting this narrative, Taylor adopts a transnational perspective oriented toward the southern United States and global South...
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“Why Be Something That You’re Not?”: Punk Performance and the Epistemology of Queer Minstrelsy
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 13–34.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Epistemology of the Closet —toward the consideration of affective and sociological registers as replacements or correctives, the practice of queer minstrelsy presses us to reconsider the utility of epistemological orientations anew. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 “Why Be Something
That You’re...
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Punk’s Afterlife in Cantina Time
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 57–73.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Deborah R. Vargas This essay considers the afterlife of punk through an orientation of time and space in the spatiotemporality of the cantina (South Tejas working-class bar). With attention to the Tejas punk sounds of Piñata Protest and Girl in a Coma, I consider punk’s afterlife in the form...
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Institutionalizing the Margins
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 45–65.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Jennifer C. Nash “Institutionalizing the Margins” treats intersectionality as a feminist orientation in time , as an analytic that powerfully describes both what women’s studies could be and what women’s studies has already become , that speaks about the discipline’s aspirations and progress...
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Wildness, Loss, Death
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 137–148.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... And Muñoz’s interest in the disorderly histories of wildness placed him in conversation with an eclectic array of theoretical currents from new materialism to object-oriented ontology, from animal studies to new animism, from diasporic anthropology to new postidentity theories of self and other. Muñoz...
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Paranoid Readings and Ambivalent Allegories in Cuban Cinema
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 17–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... Such paranoid readings have only grown more complex in the post-Soviet era, as changing strategies of state power, a growing orientation toward the global market, and the increasing availability of digital technologies enable more open criticism of the state in art and render criticism itself suspect. Drawing...
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I was dreaming when i wrote this: A mixtape for America
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 145–164.
Published: 01 June 2018
... that nourishes their souls. The first rehearsal was conceived as an experiment in refusal: to refuse the search for hope or potentiality in the violence of antiblackness, settler colonialism, and predatory capitalism. The next rehearsal sought an orientation within that refusal toward a nonoptimistic...
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The European Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 75–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the European Question is to identify a problem that is simultaneously epistemic (geographic, historiographical, ethnographic) and political. Today, in the extended aftermaths of orientalism, transatlantic slavery, colonialism, the Cold War, and European integration and amid the shocks of the global crisis...
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Greeting the Dead: Managing Solitary Existence in Japan
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 17–35.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., the social ecology of existence is undergoing radical change in twenty-first-century Japan. While long-term bonds—to company, family, locale—were once the earmarks of its “group-oriented society,” today living and dying alone mark Japan’s new era of “single-fication” and “disconnected society” ( muen shakai...
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