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The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All

Ed Cohen
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1210247
Published: 01 March 2011
...Ed Cohen How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian...
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Finance as Capital's Imagination?: Reimagining Value and Culture in an Age of Fictitious Capital and Crisis

Max Haiven
Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1299983
Published: 01 September 2011
... logic of social cooperation, a viral value paradigm that guides social action and agency toward its own endless reproduction and expansion. This implies a struggle over the dialectic of imagination and value. I suggest that imagination is the “living” aspect of “living labor.” (3) Money is capital's...
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Transpacific Maladies

Corey Byrnes
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8352223
Published: 01 September 2020
... ), and not for its meaning. This theory is difficult to prove because we do not know exactly how 豕 or 豭 would have been pronounced in ancient China, when 家 was first developed, though it matches our understanding of how most Chinese characters have been formed. There is a viral or immunological reading...
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Interspecies

Julie Livingston, Jasbir K. Puar
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 3–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1210237
Published: 01 March 2011
... of viral containment” — ­the human desire to contain the movement of viruses we deem threatening, even as humans physically contain viruses within our cells. Species can be nested inside one another, constitute one another...
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Andolan Imaginaries

Anjali Arondekar, Paromita Vohra, Ayesha Kidwai, Suryakant Waghmore, Ditilekha Sharma ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408126
Published: 01 December 2021
... farmers’ struggle, there has been much to hold on to. The andolan against right-wing Hindutva authoritarianism has gone viral, spreading, mutating, and infiltrating all sectors of society. But perhaps such a rousing characterization requires further nuance, further despair. The ruling Hindu-right...
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Unfinished Business: Notes toward an Artist Statement

Carey Young
Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 145–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2081166
Published: 01 June 2013
... or religious rhetoric historically associated with the “free speech” of Speakers’ Corner. And yet, we cannot castigate the speaker as merely a complicit figure, attempting to corporate-­clone her- self through the viral spreading of her skills. In offering her expensively gained training for free...
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(Theorizing the) Americas

Ana María Dopico
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 43–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-006
Published: 01 September 2009
... becomes a black hole whose intense gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment...
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Art

Tavia Nyong'o
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 53–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-007
Published: 01 September 2009
... gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment strategies and inter- ests. Knowledge...
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Body

Micki McGee
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 58–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-008
Published: 01 September 2009
... gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment strategies and inter- ests. Knowledge...
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The Collective as a Political Model

Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 25–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-002
Published: 01 September 2009
... becomes a black hole whose intense gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment...
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Aesthetics

Susette Min
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 27–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-003
Published: 01 September 2009
... gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment strategies and inter- ests. Knowledge...
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Affect

Ann Pellegrini, Jasbir Puar
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 35–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-004
Published: 01 September 2009
... becomes a black hole whose intense gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment...
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AIDS

Ed Cohen, Julie Livingston
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 39–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-005
Published: 01 September 2009
... gravitational force sheers off any vital singularity and condenses it into a superdense viral mass. No doubt, the technologies that produce this black box — bioscientific, pharmaceutical, governmental, nongovernmental — all have different investment strategies and inter- ests. Knowledge...
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Immune Communities, Common Immunities

Ed Cohen
Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 95–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-021
Published: 01 March 2008
... the consequences of HIV infection do not take place solely at the cellular or molecular levels and that these cells and molecules themselves also necessarily exist within a larger biosocial world where causes are not only viral. Biomedicine limits knowledge about how HIV/AIDS inhabits this world...
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In the Wake of Visual Failure: Twitter, Sandra Bland, and an Anticipatory Nonspectatorship

Wendy Sung
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8903577
Published: 01 June 2021
... the way that mainstream media outlets have generated stories by making the very virality of certain hashtags and online attention itself newsworthy. This ability to circumvent traditional media monopolies for sustained attention is what Zeynep Tufekci has called a shift in the “hierarchical information...
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Martial Law Now, as Then

Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Mark John Sanchez, Martin F. Manalansan, IV, Karen Buenavista Hanna, Gary C. Devilles ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 121–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408140
Published: 01 December 2021
... photojournalists have provided us a gallery of images from the front lines, not only appearing in the pages of newspapers and magazines but also circulating through digital networks and viral means. In our online era, these images have been moving—both in terms of producing strong emotions as well as their formats...
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Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics

Luciana Parisi
Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 25–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-25
Published: 01 September 2004
... system by- For endosymbiosis, bacteria (i.e., cells without a membrane-bounded passing genetic nucleus) defi ne the dynamics of transmission in evolution through the viral trading of genetic information. Although...
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Anthrax “Я” Us

Susan Willis
Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 19–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-4_73-19
Published: 01 December 2002
... of cleaner, more abstract viral agents of destruction, those codes 22 Susan Willis that attach themselves to e-mail in the same way they attach themselves to The biggest DNA to cause systemwide failure. HIV is just as deadly as anthrax, but slower and far more complicated. It’s...
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Cities in Flux

Ashley Dawson, Rashmi Varma, Samuel Perks, Chinki Sinha, Mathew A Varghese ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408154
Published: 01 December 2021
... in Shiv Vihar after they burnt down his home. I took notes of the carcasses of dogs, cadavers of lizards, the broken necks of pigeons, and sooty walls here. The burnt petrol pump was a landmark then. Visuals of the petrol pump burning had gone viral. All that remained were charred remains of cars...
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Monkey Business: Interspecies Longing and Scientific Prophecy in Experimental Xenotransplantation

Lesley A. Sharp
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 43–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1210265
Published: 01 March 2011
... with herpes virus B, which is responsible for potentially fatal meningoencephalitis in humans, posing a special danger for laboratory workers54 and thus xeno • Monkey Business patients, too. Other viral infections capable of moving from simians...
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