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The World Is Already without Us
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2016
... formulation: “Capitalism, as project , emerges through a world-praxis that creates external natures as objects to be mapped, quantified, and regulated so that they may service capital’s insatiable demands for cheap nature. At the same time, as process , capitalism emerges and develops through the web...
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Sociality at the End of the World
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 7–26.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the images and accounts of COVID-19 from around the world, and particularly of its impact on essential workers who are predominantly people of color, and on the elderly and on the Reservations. And of the isolation and atomization COVID-19 has imposed; of people sick and dying alone; of loved ones unable...
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Driveway perspective of Trans World Airlines Flight Center, Idlewild Airpor...
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in “Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971
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Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 3. Driveway perspective of Trans World Airlines Flight Center, Idlewild Airport, New York (architect Eero Saarinen, 1957–62). Photograph by Peter Clericuzio, 2012, SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians.
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From Image to Flesh in a World Seen from the South: A Conversation with Gary Wilder
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 105–122.
Published: 01 March 2024
... will not then automatically ask about him. GW: But we should also talk about Samir Amin! SS: I want to start with this beautiful moment of inversion where you urge us to study “the world as seen from the South,” rather than “the South in the World,” a call to deprovincialize the South by relating...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1: Rescue Operation , Massimo Sestini, June 2014. World Press Photo. https://www.worldpressphoto.org/getmedia/9ecd46ab-572b-4ceb-a90b-5f26c0e6baa7/2015-Massimo-Sestini-SN2 .
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Parts of a World
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 41–46.
Published: 01 December 2014
... that is resoundingly Cuban, brown, and queer. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Parts of a World
Alexandra T. Vazquez
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Under the subheading “Parts of a World,” Barbara Johnson offers a struc-
turing logic to her book A World of Difference:
Part One consists of a series of occasional pieces...
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We Already Know How Fucked Up the World Is
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group “We Already Know How Fucked Up the World Is” argues that one aspect of the current political mood is a sense that everyone, or at least most people, are aware of the injustices of racial capitalism. One common mode of political discourse is that of exposure. Activists...
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Rap and Revolt in the Arab World
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2012
... collaborative project, bringing together a heterogeneous array of artists despite their dispersed geopolitical locations. The essay sheds light on the preoccupations of the diverse national rap movements across the Arab world and also investigates the role that rap music played in the Arab uprisings...
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Third World Project, or How Poco Failed
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Charlie Samuya Veric A contribution to the genealogical elaboration of the Third World as a political project, this essay examines how decolonization constituted a new culture that defined the decolonized as new subjects of history. Previously thought to be without history and culture, the people...
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Worlding Oneness: Daoism, Heidegger, and Possibilities for Treating the Human
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... refigured ways and forms. Second, in recounting the reinvention of Chinese medicine for living in perfect harmony with disharmonious urban worlds, this essay traces how oneness is actualized as a multiplicitous and generative analytic through entanglements with modernity, science, and biomedicine—all...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Bobby Benedicto This article examines the role played by “third world” queer place-making practices in the reproduction of postcolonial dreams of urban and global modernity. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Manila, the Philippines, the article investigates the transformation...
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Legions of Superheroes: Diversity, Multiplicity, and Collective Action against Genocide in the Superhero Comic Book
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 21–55.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Ramzi Fawaz This article explores how the speculative worlds of contemporary US superhero comics have addressed the problem of difference and human diversity through stories about the catastrophic threat of genocide. It focuses on a classic DC Comics storyline—the Legion of Super-Heroes’ Legion...
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Urban Modernity on the Periphery: A New Middle Class Reinvents the Palestinian City
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 61–81.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Lisa Taraki The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated...
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The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
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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Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Edlie L. Wong This article investigates the possibilities of storytelling and black Atlantic literature in forging new critical approaches to the archive of New World Asian indenture. It also emphasizes the significance of the comparative study of bonded labor to our understanding of “the Atlantic...
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“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 75–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Mijke van der Drift; Nat Raha Abstract This article theorizes how femme sociality and world-making provide a counterpoint to a politics that aims for neutrality or innocence, arguing that neutrality or innocence are hallmarks of different forms of patriarchy. Instead, the authors offer embracing...
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Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the forms of constitutive dehumanization that precede, constitute, and overwhelm the very thing(s) that the term genocide intends to apprehend and, ultimately, definitively name. The genocide concept is stalked and disrupted by the world-making, civilization-building, socially productive technologies...
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Human Rights Poetry and the Poetics of Nonhuman Being: Dunya Mikhail’s Writing of Disaster
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Erin Trapp This article provides a reading of the nonhuman world registered in Dunya Mikhail’s poem Diary of a Wave outside the Sea . While human rights poetry traditionally assembles a poetics of witnessing or mourning and focuses on the construction of the human person, this reading of Mikhail’s...
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Imagination: Cinematic, Anthropological
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 127–141.
Published: 01 December 2012
... invites further slants of perspective. The essay does not seek to distinguish reality from image, world from screen, the tangible from what is otherwise elusive. Instead, the essay seeks fidelity to the kind of experience into which cinema often leads: the sense of a life beyond or between oneself...
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Radio Silence: Black Technologies and the Sound of Britain's Dying Colonialism
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Tao Leigh Goffe Abstract Despite British colonial authorities’ intentions, Black sound technologies and technologists flourished during World War II and the years following it. News radio was a colonial project with a civilizing mission that partly functioned through the British Broadcasting...
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