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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Jodi Melamed Duke University Press 2006 The Spirit of Neoliberalism
From R aci al Liber alism to Neoliber al Multicultur alism
Multicultural reference masks the centrality of race and racism to neo- Jodi...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 47–71.
Published: 01 September 2019
... diary that the “spirit of Allah was strong.” 77 His night in Gaza ended at the parliament building, where he held a press conference: “There they showered gifts upon me (including a picture of the High Dam) which the Col. [Khafaqa] ordered them to take from the wall of the chamber.” Malcolm left...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 87–107.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of culture,” Tylor thought about the limits of his own will in such a way as to systematize those limits. Culture was, by definition, a self-organizing spirit, a system whose strength derived from bodies in space and whose materiality was severe in its organizational effect. Might this spirit remain quite...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 59–78.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... In particular, it addresses Padre Marcelo's popular “aerobics of Jesus,” a regime of embodied prayer techniques that combines contemporary music with mediaeval Byzantine prayer techniques as means to awaken the spirit in practitioners. To make the point concrete, the essay examines how a popular hit, “Luz...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 51–74.
Published: 01 December 2019
... on political imagination can, however, be largely overcome in the spirit of Marx (and Randy Martin) by using the conceptual resources of options theory itself. In options theory, for example, privately produced financial derivatives are priced as though a component of them is synthetic public debt (“risk-free...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
... work that has reflected on the melancholic attachments of black studies, as well as a growing interest in Afro-pessimism and the long afterlives of slavery, the spirit and force of these contributions have yet to shape our approach to the archive of black freedom, which is often nothing more than...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2013
... masculinity as the dominant logic of privilege and to identify affect as the appropriate idiom for critiquing normative masculinity. In the spirit of this alternative genealogical approach, I will begin by unpacking what it means to say that emo functions as a periphery, and then turn to three essentially emo...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that their
electoral base was quite solid.14 In their broadcasts and journals the Pen-
tecostal representatives present utopist visions of a better society, based on
Christian values. They offer concrete practices such as church services,
collective prayer, and exorcism of evil spirits, which, according...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 97–100.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Stanley want me to become the chair of the program he taught in for decades, though? Perhaps so that I would “carry on” something of his intellectual, political, and (broadly speaking) cultural legacy. I've organized remarks around six themes that to me represent the intellectual “spirit” of Stanley's...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 47–57.
Published: 01 December 2014
... as a thing or substance that then
stretches out beyond itself; rather, the body is nothing other than extension.
In such a schema, however, Nancy confronts the problem of an
incorporeal interiority that appears throughout history under a variety of
names: soul, psyche, mind, spirit, thought...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 11–28.
Published: 01 September 2014
...) of the heart.34 It quotes scripture. Luke 4:18 – 19: “The
Spirit of the Lord has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and
recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.”35 The instruc-
tions ask the Christian to pray quietly and then to ask God the following
questions. The first...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 109–141.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the American spirit.24 If the Ferris Wheel turned leisure into
industry, it was the wheels of the automobiles and railways that drove the
country’s industrial production.25 Ferris helped turn the cogs of industry
114 Dutton...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 51–79.
Published: 01 December 2024
... to Nuit Debout —chart how the particular brand of digital capitalism in “ALIVE” developed in the years following 2016’s occupation. The first of these is Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's pivotal 1999 study The New Spirit of Capitalism , which I read to suggest that automotivation is a form of self...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 67–107.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of passage, a movement of blackness. Rapture and rupture here comingle with and yet beyond the violence that sustains the opposition between inner space and outer place. This is a poetics of “between,” of “dis place,” of dispossession in the name of a carnivalesque or a bacchanalian spirit possession. Later...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2013
... imagination in check, I start remembering tales
passed down through the years about cold spots around the building, construc-
tion noises with no apparent origin, and vengeful spirits wailing for justice. I
drive faster and feel relieved when the building comes into view. It is larger
than I had...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 137–148.
Published: 01 December 2014
... on queer wildness. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Wildness, Loss, Death
Jack Halberstam
Wildness also raises the specter of death of the symbolic function itself.
It is the spirit of the unknown and the disorderly, loose in the forest
encircling the city and the sown land...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 2013
... harmonic and also dramatic contrasts in miniature. That is, there
is something maybe disconcertingly domesticating about both of these
gestures. And maybe there is also a parallel to knitting a balaclava out of
organic wool, when the proper spirit...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of the cluster
contributed their time and spirit to this project in various ways, includ-
ing writing, reviewing, and soliciting artwork and essays. The research
cluster model has allowed us to experiment with both the forms of aca-
demic writing — as exemplified in this issue — and the modes...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Macmillan , 2016 . Bakıner Onur . “ Can the ‘Spirit of Gezi’ Transform Progressive Politics in Turkey? ” In The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey , edited by Özkırımlı Umut , 103 – 120 . London : Palgrave , 2014 . BBC Turkish . “ İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi: Türkiye'nin en...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and mys-
tification. . . . It is on the basis of this exasperation of constituent power
that the American ‘exception’ becomes typical.”35 For Negri the settler
colonial spirit was not quashed by the triumph of constitutionalism...
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