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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the geopolitical divide. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 border studies speculative design infrastructures media studies sustainability “What sort of worlds might we find if we could have a totalizing view of the underground?” This is the premise...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... world but also aims to produce certain “reality effects” by actively designing and composing a world. If it is speculative, this speculation is “firmative” rather than “affirmative”—to borrow terms from Juan Llamas-Rodriguez's essay—in its attempts to contain risk, foreclose potentialities, and solidify...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
Published: 01 June 2018
... by the massive wealth generated through speculative capital and the ridiculous levels of consumption that attend such wealth, cannot but reference colonial and racialized pasts. In addition, if the narrative structure of the Model Minority cannot fully elide the past, neither can the developmental...
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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 (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2013
... is gruesomely entranced by the possibility of civilizational collapse. Works of speculative fiction such as Atwood’s The Year of the Flood , on which this essay focuses, play a critically important role today by making the new extreme scales of biopolitical exploitation visible, speeding up the impact...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 51–67.
Published: 01 December 2003
... jurisdictions. Unlike subjects designated as alien because they supposedly threaten national security, those implicated in economic corruption are not strangers. They descend from the ranks of the recently heroicized figures of the boom economy. The newly demonized CEO was a much celebrated and emulated...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113.
Published: 01 June 2002
... other prestigious awards for writers of speculative fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Awards, the James R. Tiptree Jr. Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. The Jamaican-born Hopkinson resides in Toronto, Canada, and has also lived in Guyana and Trinidad. Drawing on Caribbean culture...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2002
... that may have more in common than we think. Tana Hargest uses computer-aided design technology to draw insights into the dilemmas of black life after the civil rights movement. Taking niche marketing to its speculative extreme, Hargest’s...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 21–38.
Published: 01 March 2022
... deployed the language of pro-poor sustainable development to roll out so-called hybrid housing for low-income residents of Penjaringan—a way of amalgamating the designs of self-constructed housing within a small-scale vertical platform. 9 But the project prompted its own debilitating speculative...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as a streamlined counterpoint to the intricately trussed bridge from 1923 that linked the downtowns of Matamoros and Brownsville. The gateway's designers, led by Mexico City–based planner-architect Mario Pani, described their brief as “great formal impact” in Arquitectura México, the country's major architecture...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... condition has always stretched the limits of bourgeois realism: we have always needed horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and other speculative genres to begin to get near the unspeakable truth of slavery and its afterlives. Figure 1 From the Twitter account of Jordan Peele, director of Get Out , signifying...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
.... The author argues that “postemancipation” is in fact not a past historical period but a critical designation of the social and relational terms of our present. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 necrospeculation necropolitics postemancipation racial capitalism finance slavery redress...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
... on the lithic contact zone of the beach: humanism ( Planet of the Apes ), speculative realism (“The Terminal Beach”), and black feminist futurity ( Daughters of the Dust ). Considering the double life of the inhuman as earth and race, the author argues for a reckoning with black and indigenous geologic archives...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 69–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of selective assessment and exclusion, in a manner analogous to what Foucault has called a “regime of truth.” Therefore, the narrative of speculation is generated by entities that Lyotard calls “decision mak- ers,” who have a pedagogical and somewhat magisterial relationship to the people. Since...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 13–22.
Published: 01 June 2007
... that those at risk have seen their fortunes fade. Those cresting the wave of each successive speculation seem propelled only by the wind at their back and the initiative under their feet. They go by the name of investors, not workers...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 June 2019
... and majestic building designed as a temple constitutes a veritable speaking library, immanently and materially expressing the enlightened values of imperial Europe. 4 The very decision by an eighteenth- century king to leave his mark on a library that, with its holdings, forms an encyclopedic center...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 45–73.
Published: 01 June 2023
... that focus on race, gender, and the longer lineages of reactionary thought. In the first place, it helps us account for the particular financialized context for these cultural politics. Second, it helps us account for how they thrive on highly constrained and speculative forms of decentralized creative...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2016
... — between the precise ferocity of its sonic palette and the precise ferocity of the dancers’ movements — that will generate the theoretical speculation of this article. This relation cannot be under- stood in isolation as pure performance, however...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
... moment in his tract, Easton includes a speculative and philosophical statement about his own being: “I wonder that I am a man.”22 Easton goes on to represent the free black population as an already dead body that structures the US body politic itself...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 77–93.
Published: 01 December 2019
... at the outskirts of Beijing into a hardware incubator called Innoconn. As an incubator, Innoconn invests in the speculative potential of startups scaling into “the next big thing” in hardware. Specifically, Innoconn was capitalizing on the promise that an engagement with China would “empower” geeks to not only...