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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., the question takes on renewed urgency. Sonic dissent is emergent in many places and doing vital work. I argue for an analytic of sonic vernacularism, or vernaculars of sonic dissent, that might attend to the historical specificity of sound’s role in dissent, as well as to the ways that sound’s meanings...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 57–73.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of what I argue is punk’s puro pedo temporality. Puro pedo or the general pedo is a Spanish Tex-Mex vernacular term that has a range of meanings, translations, and utility. In general, puro pedo is understood to mean talk with no action, bullshit, “no worries,” or other significations of insouciance. Puro...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 41–70.
Published: 01 September 2017
... with the postindustrial suburban ganglands of Mumbai. The gangster vernacular emerging in Satya was modeled on the Marathi-inflected Hindi spoken by the working class of Mumbai. This vernacular has also found a long afterlife in Bhai comedies, such as Love Ke Liye Kuchh Bhi Karega (dir. Eeshwar Niwas, 2001)—films...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 19–34.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., “queer” theory first emerged as a
vernacular-tinged protest against the more rarified operations of “theory”
as such. That queer theory should have in turn emerged as the target of
vernacular scorn, one indexed by the alternative nomination of a series of
street...
Journal Article
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., much of the dancing that accompanies her music (and her own choreographed movements) tends toward what might be called black vernacular dance, which Jayna Brown argues “was formed out of the modern conditions of disorientation, dislocation, and alienation. Yet contingent moments of communality were...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): np.
Published: 01 June 2002
... is the author of African
Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design (Rutgers University
Press, 1999). His anthology Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science
and Social Power is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
His educational software for culturally based mathematics learning...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): np.
Published: 01 June 2009
... on world Anglophone literature, ethnic Ameri-
can literature, utopian fiction, vernacular literature, and cultural studies.
She is the editor of Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (Norton) and
author of Landscapes of Hope: Anti-colonial Utopianism in America (Oxford
University Press...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
...,
noir cinema. Let me begin to seek answers to that doubled question with
a consideration of language.
Before assuming its fully vernacular form in South Africa as tsotsi,
the zoot suit had to find its indigenous echo, for vernacularization...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and/or navigate the politicized and deeply contested construction of “the facts”? There is a long tradition, going back at least to Plato, of worrying that the latest technology will disrupt the formerly seamless alignment of words and things: vernacular print cultures, television, the written word. In the face...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 87–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
... pretend to reanimate an auratic
recollection of the past, one may counterpose what I would call vernacular
modernities.26 When a writer like Salman Rushdie, who is now almost
iconically identified with the thematics...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 19–44.
Published: 01 March 2001
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to rebuild and pluralize cosmopolitanism from below. Its theorists thereby
describe the new cosmopolitanisms as “discrepant,” “vernacular,” and
“actually existing” in place of the older forms, which were preformed,
normative, and universalistic. This grassroots version...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Bambaiya
made into a
talk made into a kind of national vernacular by the Bombay fi lm. Here
kind of national young starlets rail against the patriarchal studio culture in blistering and
unsparingly abusive vernacular. Gibreel, the superstar, too...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 23–43.
Published: 01 March 2014
... profoundly influential. But the
traces of this colonial use of affect are also present in a colonial vernacular
echoing through current counterinsurgency discourse, and in the impe-
rial institutions and laws whose historical centrality the more recent tech-
nocratic discourse of happiness...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2002
... participation in technolog-
ical development.12 Examples of such participation include the contribu-
tions of inventor Garret Morgan, who invented the traffic light in 1923;
the vernacular chemistry of Madame C. J. Walker, who created a multi...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Nakamura Lisa . 2013 . “ Glitch Racism: Networks as Actors within Vernacular Internet Theory ”. Culture Digitally , 10 December . culturedigitally.org/2013/12/glitch-racism...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
Published: 01 March 2018
... always leaves its mark, and it also produces resistance, such as from the environmental group Factor X that emphasizes the importance of clean water sources to maternal health, to young people’s livability, and to female vernacular practices. Rather than merely reproductive, water is a relational...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 59–78.
Published: 01 September 2008
...,
again, this is when the prayer of the Byzantine rosary, which as argued
earlier provides the blueprint for many of Padre Marcelo’s songs, shows
its constitutive significance. Even though the prayer of the rosary is made
in vernacular speech, its...
Journal Article
Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 81–102.
Published: 01 December 2024
... practice of photography as oppositional to the regime's utilization of murder, and its representation of it, as a kind of vernacular of state power. 11 In the beginning the regime was happy to expose its brutality and regularly released images of the operations of its death squads—another drug addict...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 143–151.
Published: 01 March 2000
... disabled were deprived of their Disabil-
ity Living Allowance.”17
Such shifts in the vernacular of needs and entitlement indicate that it
is the notion of universal welfare rights (as opposed to meager provision
for the poor) that is being eliminated...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 15–36.
Published: 01 March 2005
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volume of verse, Voices in the River, defi nes it as “a telling term for Inden-
ture agreement.”10 Extending Lal’s “variant” hypothesis, Vijay Mishra
calls girmit “the vernacularized form of ‘agreement11 thereby correcting
Gandhi’s...
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