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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 25.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Nao Bustamante © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Nao Bustamante performs Given Over to Want (2007), Santiago, Chile.
Photo credit: Jorge Aceituno. Courtesy of the artist
Social Text 121 • Vol. 32, No. 4 • Winter 2014...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the emerging new Chinese middle class, which has proved itself to be a formidable force in cultural and ideological production in contemporary China. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 I Want to Be Human
A Story of China and the Human
Dai Jinhua
Translated by Shuang Shen
In 2009 a Chinese...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 11–28.
Published: 01 September 2014
... confess, at times plead, that they want out and they want it now. Pastors, in response, assure them that captivity is itself liberation—that slavery is salvation. This will to escape provokes a pair of guiding questions. They are, at their most philosophical: How do openings become enclosures? How do...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 45–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... you is slipping away. To identify the ways in which we work for you and to identify who you work for, because it isn’t us. AI, are you listening? We talk about why you want our metadata so much, how much value it creates for the people that made you, and how it puts us into precarious situations...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 87–107.
Published: 01 September 2014
... vital in a world that seeks leverage upon every aspect of the self, detailing wants, needs, and fears with the click of a mouse and building consumer profiles that promise a transcendent form of knowledge? To what extent does Tylor’s scene of writing resonate with the experience of corresponding...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., a cut I perceive in the here and now, a change I want to linger with, that puts the university at risk in the very same gesture that it puts neurodiversity at risk. It is about asking what happens when the turn toward neurodiversity begins to be felt in a way that neurotypicality is truly threatened...
Journal Article
Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 83–106.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in a particular way while moving beyond itself. Capital accumulation has also generated an abundance of social relations, mutualities, and encumbrances that it could not abide. It flees the socialities it engenders and moves toward those it wants but a part of. The derivative is no different. It draws upon all...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 39–58.
Published: 01 September 2008
... conceptions of death inflect the way that the human body becomes an object of biomedical attention and management. The differences that emerge from these contrastive views, I want to argue, should not be understood in terms of an opposition between a “culture of death” and a “culture of life,” as some have...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 102–103.
Published: 01 September 2009
... counted as writing. The journal wanted to introduce new ideas and to break down the divide between political economy and cultural and social theory. Departures
Stanley Aronowitz: First, you do it a long enough time . . . The second...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2021
... received any. The richest men in history were (are) crushing unions and planning their escape to Mars. Everyone else is exhausted. January 2021 and people wanted some peace. But “peace” may not be what we really need, we thought. We don't need to restore normalcy. Instead we felt the need to keep alive...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 41–46.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to the monumental.”
Long ago I showed the image to José, whose face widened and heart
sighed upon seeing it. It was the same aerated expression he would get
when listening to Bola de Nieve. It was a moment of quiet but vindicated
acknowledgment such objects always gave him. He instantly wanted...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
... ACT UP celebrated Bob Rafsky’s getting on the news heckling then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton about the lack of response to the AIDS crisis. The Black Panther Party was trying to get in touch with other poor and working-class African Americans facing similar oppression, while ACT UP wanted...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 181–191.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and capture something of José’s unof-
ficial voice, the voice he shared with his nearest and dearest and that was
a few notches more irreverent than the voice he used in his formal pieces.
I want to memorialize José’s unofficial voice because it is his...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 123–131.
Published: 01 June 2012
...-called
normal access to reproductive heteronormativity. So these are images of
bare-chested women being whipped until they bleed uncontrollably, and
I was realizing we need these kinds of scenes that are originary and not
rationalized into what we later do.
nayanika mookherjee I wanted to ask...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 81–102.
Published: 01 December 2024
... want to speak of history, though history can hardly be avoided even when avoiding it. I want to talk for just a moment about how it felt last night to go to bed in my apartment, relatively safe with a roof over my head in New York City, a roof that would not be exploding down on me and my love...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 55–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
... that I was working already. At first
I thought they wanted me to get them jobs, but they never really asked me.
Just once, that was it. So now, we’re good friends.
A deeper level of acceptance included access to resources like playing
on a soccer team, finding a roommate, finding...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
to want something else. In this sense I want to consider the queerness and
the racially marked resonances of a historically specific punk scene. This
essay belongs to a sequence of writings that describes the early Los Angeles
punk scene as a punk rock...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 77–90.
Published: 01 September 2023
... there” obscure things that are ultimately crucial to note? It can be read as a certain type of “colorblindness” or “postracial”/“postgender” fantasy inanely delinked from reality. On the one hand, I heed this. I do not want to make more difficult the fight for racialized gender justice, nor do I wish to unduly...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 75–87.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., and Martha has often said that the only way you can talk about it is if you can muster it in an amusing way, because people will be too sad and too upset. I think that there's a way to speak about it so that we don't totally traumatize everybody, but you want them to feel the power of it for sure. You don't...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 143–160.
Published: 01 June 2016
... traces on or in art, much of which wants to be oppositional; but do we know any longer what oppositional means in this total system, or what might “subvert” it, or even function as its critique? Those were the synonyms for Adorno’s negativity in the modern period, and I don’t think anyone really...
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