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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 1–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
... offers the dichotomy of hypo/hyperhabilitation as a template for understanding the relationship between Lauren Berlant’s “slow death” thesis for underserved communities of color and the futuristic advance of prosthetic and reparative technologies for the privileged few. The symbolic excesses...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 7–26.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the cameras don't visit, and so we don't see. What worries me is the hidden death, what I'm kept from seeing. The slow death of mass incarceration. Deep SHU (special housing unit) confinement, the states of permanent injury or debility so many are forced to live in. Eschatological dreamings differ...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2022
... duration, but it is also a companion, a marker of an enduring relationality that persists even in Ficre's death. This is the complex landscape that slow loss traverses—where loss is personal and shared, intimate and social. Alexander's “open house”—to borrow Patricia J. Williams's term—reveals...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2017
... is sought? What happens to sociality as it unfolds in spaces of slow death? 9 What genres of entextualization are available to us as critical scholars seeking to get a hold on how these precarious worlds are lived and died? Orr stood as a child at the center of a terrible personal accident, a tragedy...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Berlant Lauren . “ Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency) .” Critical Inquiry 33 , no. 4 ( 2007 ): 754 – 80 . doi.org/10.1086/521568 . Bowen Larnies A. , Legros Ayanna , Paschel Tianna , Mattos Géisa , Cruz Kleaver , and Hooker Juliet...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 69–92.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., specifically DACA grantees, can be seen as subject to a state of exception. 15 Although the cancellations of DACA and other strict immigration policies do not act as direct erasures of life itself, they can wear down—fatigue, even paralyze—if not cause a slow death. 16 Indeed, when policing and tactics...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2018
... capital and some of its critics and in ways that life becomes an asset rather than labor, relegated to slow death, or just disposable as waste. This might direct us to ways of knowing that embrace bodily experience, affect and mood, and the minor. This sentence could have been written by a Mechanical...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 131–136.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in, through, and of life defines the form of contemporary power, something we have now long called biopolitics, then the condition of late liberal life (slow death, shattered life, depressed existence) is no longer inside or outside this politics. The vulnerable, the precarious, the depressed, the shattered...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
...La Marr Jurelle Bruce Madtime is a renegade rhythm, a radical mode of doing and feeling time that coincides with phenomenologies of madness. This essay details four variations of madtime: the quick, restless time of mania; the slow, sorrowful time of depression; the infinite, exigent now...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Tina M. Campt How do we engage a contemporary visual archive of blackness that is saturated by the proliferation and mass circulation of images of violence, antiblackness, and premature death? This article explores the labor required by visual enactments of black precarity in the work of filmmaker...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 53–86.
Published: 01 December 2017
... sovereign entrepreneurial terror takes pleasure in its own display of abnormality but affirms its access to the normal both in the sovereign temporality of its access to a swift cure and by constructing subjects trapped in narratives of illness and debility—temporalities of slow death—that will never...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 83–101.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the world looks like when the microeco- nomic model of human experience is realized and its axioms made flesh. See Lau- ren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011); Lauren Berlant, “Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency Critical Inquiry 33, no. 4 (2007): 754–80...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to the Sikh community and one who not only encouraged but also actively enabled state violence at all levels of the security apparatus. 62 While many did express relief at the end of police violence and civilian deaths under the regime of state counterinsurgent repression of insurgency, most did not see...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2006
... day, despite promises of “sale” or toll-free days.5 Pakistani officials claimed that this was due to slow public adaptation to new technology. However, recent enthusiastic support for flyovers, dams, luxury coaches, and nuclear bombs in Pakistan would suggest that this was not the case. How do...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 77–93.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Said, “Slow Death: Punishment by Detail,” in From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap (London: Bloomsbury, 2005), 94. 10. Alon Confino, “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method,” American Historical Review 102, no. 5 (1997): 1397. 11. Boullata, Palestinian Art, 123 – 60...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 135–153.
Published: 01 September 2003
... stop, where movement is only a memory: “It has been done before.” The Trainspotting junkie falls into an inhuman slowness, a slowness that distances the junkie from both the outside world and any space of interior subjectivity...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that will make a difference only prompts anger. When homemade videos of police murdering black people surface, some activists question their circulation. What does it mean for the mainstream media to play video of Walter Scott’s death over and over? Does the video function as proof and effective agit-prop...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 123–143.
Published: 01 June 2013
...?” Jimmy ponders history as butterfly effect, speculating that inevitable psychological dam- age would have curtailed the chain of events leading to Katie’s birth (and ultimate death). And at film’s end, Sean will say: “Sometimes I think, I think all three of us got in that car. And this is all just...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in a sector saturated with younger workers, and at a time when construction projects had slowed dramatically. He established Serenity to address the problem of alcoholism and despair among his peers. Serenity opened its doors on 3 May, the Day of the Holy Cross, the feast day for construction workers...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
Published: 01 June 2016
... to death, a frozen close-up of the (mortally) wounded driver’s apparently dead face lingers for almost half a minute until, in exact symmetry to the beginning of the film, the slow wink of his eye signals his undead resurrection as a zombie who has survived his own biological death: “He exists as a kind...
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