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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 151–157.
Published: 01 September 2010
... faced by cultural studies at this point in its emergence. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Afterword It Takes Two to Tangle Mary Louise Pratt As I write these words in early 2010, construction has begun on the 1776- foot Freedom Tower that will replace the World Trade Center in Manhat...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., or The Perils of Taking a Stand in China Gloria Davies The Master said: “A gentleman seeks virtue; a small man seeks land. A gentleman seeks justice; a small man seeks favors. — The Analects of Confucius (trans. Simon Leys) In Chinese, the idea of the human has long been bound up...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 27–47.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Olivia C. Harrison The ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as my starting point, I...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Julie Livingston; Jasbir K. Puar This introduction to the journal's special issue on Interspecies takes stock of the recent intellectual histories of animal studies and posthumanism, arguing for interspecies as a way to navigate new directions in these intellectual formations. Interspecies...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
... masculinity and also the site for the making and unmaking of citizenship. Tracking the production of minority citizenship and national belonging, this essay examines how Nasreen alerts us to the way in which forces of violence during a political crisis take as their favored expression the masculine assertion...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 59–68.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... For Muñoz, if queerness is always on the horizon and not-yet-here, brownness is situated in the here-and-now as the materiality of everyday life. While others have taken up the coda of Cruising Utopia as a call to take ecstasy with the utopian thinker, this article begins with the ends and fringes...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and excess takes the form of a cinematic drive that no longer hews to a narrative temporality but, rather, appears as exactly the hallucinatory intensity of an overwhelming present that Jameson described. For this reason, the films dispense with beginnings and endings; through modulations of filmic time...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Maisam Alomar This article takes up the issue of substance use disorder, arguing that the discourses surrounding the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic and the present-day opioid epidemic rely on similarly racialized rhetoric, and examining the implications regarding pain and suffering, safety...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jina B. Kim Abstract Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low...
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Published: 01 March 2018
Figure 2 James Bridle, Autonomous Trap 001 , 2017. Ground markings to trap autonomous vehicles using “no entry” and other glyphs. Performance of a salt circle trap, Mount Parnassus, 14 March 17. The Autonomous Trap is an intervention in the shared domain of human and machine vision, taking More
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 13–33.
Published: 01 June 2008
...AbdouMaliq Simone Taking two neighborhoods in Dakar and Douala, the article investigates the processes through which these localities attempt to strike a balance between multiplying the conceivable relations among people, materials, and talk and forging a provisional framework to keep things from...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2008
... enfolded with the political. We assess how this assemblage of media, religion, and the political takes place. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Introduction Media and the Political Forms of Religion Charles Hirschkind and Brian Larkin The increasing presence of religion in public life has...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2008
...” that single out “hot spots” around the globe. All of this, in turn, takes place within the play of visibility and invisibility that is one important legacy of the war. Homing in on the powers and hazards of public images in Indonesia today and the multiplicity of visual modes and discourses and perspectival...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Suisman This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Brent Hayes Edwards; Anna McCarthy The essay provides a short introduction to the special anniversary issue of Social Text , explaining the protocol for the “keyword” essays that make up the majority of the issue: each contribution takes up particular points (single essays) or threads (themes...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 112–117.
Published: 01 September 2009
...? This essay takes up the differences between an older imperialism and present-day empire, in order to envision what yet remains for us to consider in opposing its contemporary global rule. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Departures Stanley Aronowitz...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., the framing and commodification of black women, in answer to new fears and new racial fantasies, takes new and virulent form. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Smoking Habaneras, or A Cuban Struggle with Racial Demons Jill Lane I first saw an object similar to the one pictured on the following...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 182–187.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Fred Moten; Stefano Harney Policy is the imposition of insecurity, the oppressive regulation of the plans and operations by which the objects of policy anticipate and object to policy. These are notes toward an understanding of policy that also take up the question of whether it is inevitable...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 188–193.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel This essay proposes a brief reflection on the meanings and relevancy of postcolonialism as a keyword in contemporary cultural studies. Taking as a point of departure the well-known etymological crisis through which many scholars feel compelled to explain how...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 81–105.
Published: 01 December 2011
... especially focused on the film's sound design, it argues that the film shows us a significant shift in the formal location of Jia's representation of the relation between history and the everyday in the Chinese context. Along the way, the essay assumes that the worldly register in which these arguments take...