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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 55–60.
Published: 01 March 2018
... artistic labor is already classified, hierarchized, and channeled, including by institutions we may feel compelled to defend. It is ever more insidious because it plays quite effectively to the ways that bourgeois ideologies have already formatted the perception and tastes of professional intellectuals...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 35–59.
Published: 01 June 2008
... that differentiated them from the collective fashion tastes and behavior of FTZ workers.11 Spatial ordering has long been a strategy of registering social dis- tance.12 Most local families started displaying middle-class accoutrements, thanks...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 117–118.
Published: 01 March 2014
... shore. plywood sails the city island past the enclave mirror till the bricks arise. at the fugitive bar the food be tasting good. kitchenette’s my cabin and flesh be burning in the hold. I love the way you smell. your cry enjoys me. let me taste the way you think. let me do this one more time while...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Asians, those whose nouveau riche tastes, venial pettiness, and multitudes of vices both sexual and chemical dispense gleefully with the mannered mores of the old moneyed and middle class alike. Thus, the second and third books of the trilogy shift more attention to myriad characters who...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 127–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... in the Post piece—we can now put the Met’s “very limited” support for Brooklyn into perspective. What we find in de Montebello’s defense of the mayor’s “taste” is an example of the homologies that link dominant posi- tions in the apparently opposed fields of art and politics...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 119–121.
Published: 01 March 2014
... taste the flavor. The bright flavor of this space was brought out by the monument, but that taste had always been there, which is to insist that the effervescence of the actually existing relationality of the Forest Houses and the promise...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 49–76.
Published: 01 December 2013
... bourgeoisie and 54 Shipley ∙ Parody and Inversion in Ghanaian Melodrama civil service class distinguished itself from uneducated workers through entertainment, developing tastes for English-­language literary clubs and theater, American films, and highlife orchestra.25 Tastes...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to individual tastes. Within such a discourse of celebration, what must be strategically ignored is the labor dimension essential to creative production. The creative economy relies on but also dismisses the materiality of creative labor. My focus in this essay is precisely...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 35–56.
Published: 01 December 2005
... gendering. Rather than becoming a man—an injured war hero, let’s His run-in with say—Shadrack instead returns to his home “permanently astonished, . . . his head full of nothing and his mouth recalling the taste of lipstick” (7). Medusa does Morrison’s portrait...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 61–81.
Published: 01 June 2008
... culture of the same class being crafted and nurtured in the more “globalized” cities such as Cairo, Beirut, or, more recently, Amman. The refashioning of artistic and cultural taste away from “folklore,” the reigning paradigm for many decades, has taken place at the hands of a small group...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 93–96.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., re-made fawns with sharp teeth, does with claws. Goats consume tiny tastes of uranium. Convert them to pebbles under foot, walk away. Steroidal breasts drain...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2008
... 3) Add two shot glasses worth of sugar. Or sweeten to taste. 4) Cook tea in teapot until ready (no specified amount of time). 5) When tea is almost ready, pour it from the pot into an empty shot glass. Pour tea back and forth between different glasses to create foam (mosse...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 69–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of quality and taste . . . while feeding their aspirations for a better life.”3 In short, the mogul inspires his more downtrodden constituents to “buy in” to the emerging paradigm of accessible luxury and social status and in the process assumes an influential role as social mediator. Thus, the hip-hop...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 51–67.
Published: 01 December 2003
... her magazines, and purchasing her housewares.11 Yet, even though Stewart is frequently ridiculed for the white upper-middle-class taste she promotes, her approach to media, marketing, and merchandising is ecumenical...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 71–101.
Published: 01 March 2011
... saw cacao, freshly harvested. I peeled the kernel, which looks like a large, misshapen bean, and was disappointed by the bitter taste, for what is inside looks like chocolate. —Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (I Don’t...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to the measure she has been given. She restarts, the work pulling at her again. She rereads. She knows she should read something new. But those familiar words just have a taste she can’t resist. She studies, working from the edges. She reinvents, from the middle. The form stumps her. She forgets to cite...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 193–217.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., tastes, and sexual orientation; and a tendency to vote Democratic.”4 While there is a problematic lack of nuance in these geopolitical and cultural designations, I would like for a moment to suspend judgment...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that trademarks the necessary — the marketing of what life needs in order to live? What would dumb water taste like? Can we live without smart water? Is the plastic ocean dumb water? Nowadays, the architecture of the Durham Cathedral signifies in broader contexts. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is no longer...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 147–158.
Published: 01 September 2013
... not have a specific or subcultural, communal market/culture. It is designed to appeal to everyone. Pop doesn’t come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste.”3 But if pop music “doesn’t come from any particular place,” Frith has...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 59–82.
Published: 01 June 2000
... Weird Video catalog and buy specialty cheese items, like Fredric Hobbs’s Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973), for a rare taste of deliberate cheese that can be consumed cheesily as well. Like camp, cheese describes both a parodic practice and a parodic...