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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 127–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... the museum
of “the worst kind of disgusting, commercial sensationalism.” “I under-
stand they want to make money. But this is what you do, like, on the
42nd street of about 20 years ago.”33
Characterizations of “Sensation” as “a commercial enterprise” about...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 77–103.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Ellen Moodie This essay develops the concept of biospectacle, in which the politics of managing populations becomes sensational visual display. It does so as it explores a series of events in 1999 surrounding the arrest and trial of “El Directo,” a gang member in El Salvador who, at age seventeen...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of space, sensation, and connectivity that breaks with the specifically visual metaphors through which both biopower and critical theories of embodiment conceptualize difference. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Abu Zubaydah
and the Caterpillar
Neel Ahuja
On 16 April 2009, the U.S...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 49–71.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kadji Amin; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 69–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and sensation, an indefinite urbanism. John Divola’s photo series Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement Zone ( LAX NAZ ) of homes in the flight path slated for demolition visualize the atmospheric quality of this process. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 atmosphere noise sound sense...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 93–111.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., celebratory gatherings) whose shared sensations are assigned divergent meanings. In a bocado for the GLQ special double issue on viscerality, visual artist Dirtysurface shares in a conversation with Tompkins, “Food . . . appeals to me because its use in nongustatory ways signals the innovative...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 127–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of Tidying Up . 4 If the gooey, analog sensation of clodder underlies the twiggy and digital poking sensation of clutter, then perhaps we should say “cloddering” when we are tempted to say “decluttering.” This seems more accurate as a model of our daily reality. Consider, for example, the ways...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121–139.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., pleasures, tactility, rhythms, echoes, textures, deaths,
morbidity, torture, pain, sensation, and punishment, our necropolitical
present-future deems it imperative to rearticulate what queer theory and
studies of sexuality have to say about the metatheories...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... death worlds. Much as the sunken place in Get Out seems to allegorize double consciousness, invisibility, and the body–flesh distinction in black studies, the remote hyperempathy of Sense8 illustrates each of these three aspects of a heterotopia. Like a theater, each sensate’s immediate surroundings...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 123–126.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., sensations, currents of feeling without name, have been elaborated, transmitted, put to use. The organization of affect and mood by the transmission of signs, images, Wi-Fi signals, infrastructural modifications, and even the availability of food takes the form of an interface with productive processes...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 121–127.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., all the friendly fire of side effects. The progressive destruction of
energy, to a zero degree of reason and sensation, of motion and emotion.
Soon enough my mouth, lips, throat are destroyed by sores. I can’t talk or
eat...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 81–102.
Published: 01 December 2024
... materially and symbolically deleted from the everyday of their tormentors, can only occupy “time” as violent deformations to the unfolding of Israeli national history. Outlets like CNN, BBC, and others serve as amplifiers of settler sensation and as prosthetic extensions of the mediatic operations...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... with the blunter behavioralist vision of the brain as a chemical machine that can be reoriented by using sensation to transform, for example, the chemistry of neurotransmitters. It is from this vantage that Mitchell’s experiments suggest that identity can be transformed and ultimately usurped through a program...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): np.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Wright in Ghana: Black Radicalism
and the Dialectics of Diaspora Kevin Gaines 75
Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault: Butler
and Fraser on Capitalism and the Regulation
of Sexuality Anna Marie Smith 103
A “Sensation...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 77–95.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and Guattari emphasize the importance of the body and its sensa-
tions over any notion of the unconscious. The body in shock, after all, is
overwhelmed. In this state, there is only surface and sensations; corporeal
reaction in this universe is unattached to a psychic structure. Deleuze and
Guattari...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
... framework for reflecting on the relationship between anexos’ existential and material dimensions on the level of image and sensation rather than mere explanation. Rather than force a direct comparison between the film and anexos along these lines, I’m interested in how the film provides a logic of sense...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
... circles. On
black literary societies, see McHenry, Forgotten Readers.
7. The literature on the politics of sentimentalism is vast. See, e.g., Tompkins,
Sensational Designs; Samuels, Culture of Sentiment; and Romero, Home Fronts.
30...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... For more extended arguments about this, see Musser, Sensational Flesh ; and Musser, Sensual Excess . 4. For a history of intimacy and marriage in the United States, see D'Emilio and Freedman, Intimate Matters. 5. Wright, Sex Factor in Marriage , 101 . 6. Jagose...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 59–68.
Published: 01 December 2014
...,” “tomor-
row morning.” Yet the sensations and episodes of disorientation, ecstasy,
confusion, nostalgia, and sadness are all narrated around these temporal
Social Text 121 • Winter 2014 6 5
placeholders in the present tense, making...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... As several schol-
ars have argued, (musical) sound is like touch, in that it reaches out and
creates a sensate, physical experience of connection.45 As Daniel Putman
has written: “The way that music refers to something is the same way
that touch refers to something — immediate, nonconceptual...
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