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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 51–79.
Published: 01 December 2024
... but, more incisively, reveals how it maintains “floating” surplus populations by facilitating the regulation of those workers’ hope. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 platform capitalism social movements science fiction management affect We...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 77–93.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of surplus value accumulation alongside “newer” platform capitalism as embodied in Uber, the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, and what Tiziana Terranova characterizes as social media’s exploitation of free labor (with Facebook as the dominant figure). Stories of Foxconn workers’ suicides...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 71–87.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Amy Villarejo What can critical theory, from Theodor Adorno to contemporary writers on the relationship between capitalism and digital media, tell us about the specific form or medium that is television? This article undertakes a two-step answer to this question, first by locating television...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 55–74.
Published: 01 June 2024
... currencies of transaction—prefiguring if not impelling the innovations and growth of an uber-urbanist platform capitalist economy. The book is in this way a political tale, a retelling of the tales capital tells itself, which confines its history to the innovations and growth of capital as its own...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... There are proposals, and not just on the horizon. Blockchain technologies innovated by Bitcoin and Ethereum have not yet produced post-capitalism’s “killer app,” but that may be in the works. Basic minimum wage gives way to basic equity as all participants in any platform whatever (such as this journal issue, perhaps...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in the metaphors of the platform or plinth . Platform 's historic fifteenth-century meaning, as a visual plan or frame to orient activity, is partly rearticulated in the nineteenth century in two directions that each take the form of an enabling frame: a raised speaker's platform, and the connected...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 89–107.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Jennifer Bajorek This article examines two projects by artists living and working in Nairobi. It asks questions about how these artists are visualizing or otherwise materializing in their work the specificity of their contemporary geopolitical and geocultural situation in relation to capitalism...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group While networked global capitalism is often aestheticized as smooth, continuous, and homogeneous, this system in fact requires asymmetry and discontinuity. We propose the figures of the mine and the port to envision the relationship between extraction and condensation...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 5–10.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of gender, sexuality, race, religion, affects, intensities, and networks that are increasingly co-opted in this moment for the goals and purposes of securitizing the flows of global capital. Yes, academia can often feel moribund. And yes, we have to steal back time, thinking, and invention. We agreed...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 21–38.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and Time Turning: The Capital, the State, and the Kampung in Jakarta .” International Journal of Urban Sciences 19 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 53 – 63 . Leitner Helga , Colven Emma , and Sheppard Eric . “ Ecological Security for Whom? The Politics of Flood Alleviation and Urban...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group Although many scholars understand finance capitalism as inaugurating new forms of domination and control, this essay considers how we might rethink finance as presenting tools for the undoing of capitalism’s universalizing tendencies. Copyright © 2018 Duke University...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 39–66.
Published: 01 March 2020
... self-care self-improvement neoliberalism feminism That capitalism has a care problem is by no means a new observation. Evidence abounds, and makeshift solutions are everywhere apparent. 1 Here are just a few. At the university library where I have currently sought a quiet place...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-televisual ” media. Villarejo demonstrates how capital’s transformations of contemporary television and digital media platforms have produced a “diffuse paraprofessional orbit” in which amateur production takes on a new salience, which in turn enables new forms of queerness to proliferate on large and small...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 45–73.
Published: 01 June 2023
... but does not fully develop the intriguing notion of “derivative fascisms” to identify some characteristics of the far-right reaction to the social decay, rising inequality, and profound alienation wrought by neoliberal capitalism: Derivative fascisms continue to grow, wherever disenfranchised middle...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 45–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Pictures Are Looking at You) .” New Inquiry , 18 April . thenewinquiry.com/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/ . Schiff Allison . 2017 . “ Facebook Made Almost $20 in Average Revenue per User in Q4, a Big Jump .” Ad Exchanger , 1 February . adexchanger.com/platforms...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., and safety. Instead, this article argues that the tightly bound association of anti‐Black racial violence's recognizability to the visual has created a dynamic that simultaneously moves us closer to and further away from its ontological truths. Examining Twitter as a multisensorial platform and its users...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
...? China Miéville's story “Covehithe” mobilizes the literary imagination to depict sunken oil platforms as revenant and reproductive organisms that pose new questions about relationships among humans, nature, and technology, and about the care, responsibility, and politics such forms of life demand...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2017
... as racial outsiders, as nonsubjects who can be acted upon outside of the law. This figurative maneuver exemplified by Tracking Transience speaks to the broader relationship among surveillance, late capitalism, and systems of control as outlined by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, among others. While...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2020
... aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, op-eds on #selfcare exploded across media platforms. 1 But for all the popular focus on self-care rituals, new collective movements have also emerged in which moral imperatives to act—to care—are a central driving force. In a recent interview, Angela Davis...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 81–105.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on the development of historical ironies in Jia's early works, including Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002), finally reaching Jia's best-known work, 2004's The World . The essay then detours through an eighteenth-century cosmological debate on the meaning of Chinese philosophy...