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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 107–110.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Allen Feldman This short essay interprets a narrative from the Talmud to explore Agamben's concept of bare life and Benjamin's concept of messianic violence. Duke University Press 2008 The Gnat and the Sovereign
Allen Feldman
From the Talmud:
Vespasian sent Titus who said...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 53–86.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Kyla Wazana Tompkins This article uses two ephemeral patent remedy advertisements from the 1890s to examine an aesthetic-affective category I call white sovereign entrepreneurial terror. Linking the period before the rise of progressivism and New Deal economics to the total collapse and evacuation...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 41–70.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to regulate minor stars’ appeal within emerging genre films. Engaging with the resultant configurations of form, style, sovereign representation, and masculinity, this article maps the analytical trajectory of mise-en-scène, performativity, and stardom in Hindi cinema. In the end, it highlights the agitated...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 177–195.
Published: 01 March 2011
... frameworks are unable to contain. If we are, finally, as Haraway asserts, partners (with dogs) in a crime of evolution, it is not a crime prosecutable through the assignment of blame to the sovereign subject conceived in humanist terms. Newer ways to think agency, subjectivity, and social collectivity...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and changing relationships among information, territory, and sovereignty. This article examines two quite distinct, high-profile celebrity instances of dissident domesticity. In the first case, Prempeh I, the last sovereign king of Asante, was exiled by the British from his capital in what is now Ghana...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 1–23.
Published: 01 December 2000
... in the conceptualizations of the interna-
tional from the classical dualism of sovereignty and a higher notion of
justice that transcends the sovereign will, a viewpoint still very much
alive with Bentham, to sovereignty as the sole principle of the interna-
tional...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 65–71.
Published: 01 March 2018
... remarks of conspiracy theorist Steve Bannon with regards to his “Leninist” ambitions for “deconstructing the administrative state.” The models of what to do with the state may be proliferating, not least of all in the periphery, where laws have never hampered sovereign will. Aleatory violence may now...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 53–79.
Published: 01 June 2007
... it at its word to be an
administrative project, a code of conduct rather than a strategy of combat.
Hardt and Negri, by contrast, make biopolitics into a subset of sovereign
power, the right of empire to manage the life of the multitude...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-
ans and Guns,” American Indians are not in fact fully protected by the
Second Amendment. Tribal governments are not bound by the Second
Amendment in their sovereign ability to regulate gun ownership on tribal
lands.4 Through his misrepresentation...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 63–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
... a long history of securing its sovereignty through supporting racial capitalism and white privilege by intentionally reinterpreting the parts of the Constitution that treat Indigenous nations as sovereigns (the Indian Commerce Clause) and that protect people of color from discrimination (the Equal...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 1–17.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the deep structure of our present. In his influential formulation, Carl Schmitt suggested that “all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.” 1 While Schmitt’s focus here was on the significance of the political sovereign, whose ability to suspend...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 45–65.
Published: 01 September 2002
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and things have moved on to the globalization track. The Cold War, with
its confrontation between sovereign nation-states of leviathan power, its
mutually assured destruction policy, and its ideological conflict, has gone
the way of the dinosaurs. We are entering into a new age relieved of big
power’s...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., to the
decline of the sovereign state, at least insofar as sovereignty names a
practice of legitimated power, contingent on the lawful constitution and
deployment of the sovereign authority.6 In the case of the modern nation-
state as it emerges from...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that one can explore
the implicit, foundational, and paradoxical injunction to both reduce and
preserve borders, and as the very means by which to trace the illiterate
ground upon which competing claims over the US/Mexico border hinge:
in short, the sovereign ban of border crossing, the abandonment...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 51–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of “bare life,” or life with no polit-
ical meaning, has been the topic of extensive academic debate and critique
since he published Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life in 1995.1
Theorists concerned with the relationship between biological life and
political subjectivity have used...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 83–101.
Published: 01 June 2013
...
and the remission of a penalty are . . . manifestations of the sovereign
power over life and death) or definitively consign it to the death to which
it already belongs.”7 In other words, for Agamben, any actions undertaken
in this situation amount...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 103–121.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and
novelists, the new relations of sovereign power, individual autonomy,
and privatization that make crime genres so appealing also precipitate a
fundamental remaking of aesthetic conventions visvis their historical
ideological effects...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Nation of its sovereign ability to govern its own people in its own lands. Though the Court heard the case, it declined to rule on the merits. It was not until 18 March 1831 that the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and determined that it had no jurisdictional authority...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 19–48.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the threshold of neoliberal intelligibility nevertheless
plays an indispensable role in the broader global economy over which and
through which finance capital has gained sovereign power.
Beyond the moment of simple reproduction, within which the “free”
work of slaves, colonial peoples...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 17–42.
Published: 01 December 2007
... are sovereign beings best ruled
under circumstances in which they are encouraged to self-manage, tak-
ing on responsibilities for their welfare, growth, and security that might
otherwise be assumed by the state.20 As liberal rule increasingly centers on
“the conduct of conduct,” it resolves problems...
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