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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of globalism that we focus on in this text are also unevenly figured in fractured mass cultural forms. While mass market narratives of the zombie continue to deploy the George Romero–Michael Jackson “Thriller” version of the figure as a shambolic, flesh-eating corpse, some of us understand that the Afro...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
Published: 01 June 2016
... in his car, filmed from below. Again, the moving image bleeds out to an apparent freeze frame until minimal body gestures vivify this zombie of cool. In this postlegal regime of the drive, the subject is released into a realm outside the social, literally turning the law into trash. Subjected...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 57–83.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Indeed, Mambéty, in typically unorthodox fash- ion, has effectively re-created in a new cultural context the zombie masses from American B-films that devour old orders but that also as collectivities are self-consuming, unsustainable, and nonrenewable...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
Published: 01 June 2023
... reality of the counterpublics it attempts to harness. 38 A de facto cultural policy of zombie neutrality has lumbered on, yet the frequency of museum protests has grown exponentially, and speaking out has become more common and more visible. Black Obsidian Soundsystems’ multi-issue critique...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 55–73.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... you learn about virus jumping and you imagine the people working in this plot, becoming ill and how this illness travels from person to person, air to air, across arenas near you. You live through a pandemic, and it is nothing like they described. the zombies look human; the nonzombies look human...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 51–67.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in regular rhythms suggest sentience and motive will. Anyone who has seen horror films will know the specific shudder-inducing uncanniness of a doll or robot whose movements suddenly seem guided by an independent will. (They also recall the jerky movements of zombies in various film instantiations...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 11–28.
Published: 01 September 2014
... not totally sure if you’ve seen the movies. With the zombies. They’re out there, you know? Zombies are in the streets. They don’t want to be free. But that’s why we bring them here. Here, brother. We bring them here to be free.” Possibly putting too fine a point on it all, the pastor then gestured...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Their regimented, repetitive form produces a violent and visually pleasing ordering. In their potential for repetition and iteration, the blocks of men in figure 2 are similar to the infinitely regenerating “digital hordes” of zombie films rendered by artificial intelligence that models cellular infection. 55...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 105–113.
Published: 01 December 2014
... a staggering zombie,” with the help of two nurses. This difficult exercise is to prevent the postsurgery danger of blood clotting, the doctors say. As firsthand witness to this form of assisted living, within the hospital’s own temporality, Alfaro recognizes...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 93–118.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of the future, a challenge to the reproducibility of the social order, perhaps even to its desirability. This twist could make being terminal, as opposed to terminality qua zombie temporality, socially threatening, because the terminal body is asynchronous and nonchrononormative. It’s not just...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Heads, Vampires, Sweat, Zombies, and Legbas: A Meditation on Black Queer Aesthetics .” GLQ 18 , nos. 2–3 ( 2012 ): 350 – 51 . Livingstone David N. “ Tropical Climate and Moral Hygiene: The Anatomy of a Victorian Debate .” British Journal for the History of Science 32 , no. 1 ( 1999...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 49–68.
Published: 01 June 2022
... “weakest links” of the Slovenian postsocialist transition: “čefurs,” 53 “leftists,” “communist zombies,” “left fascists,” “media whores,” “faggots and dykes,” “public sector,” “gypsies,” “Balkanians,” “poor people,” and so on. And so it was literally simultaneous with many dominant discourses...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and subjectivity. The hundreds of indistinguishable clones of zombies, aliens, ninjas, et cetera, subjected equally to shotgun shells or cursor manipulation, are normalized to the form itself as securing the difference between self and other. Within actional Orientalism, as in Said's formulation, the Oriental...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 151.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to, collect, and inscribe the histories of lives “whom the state hardly thinks worth counting at all” (Scheper-Hughes 1992, 30). Zé once told me: “If the hospitals kept these people they would be mad, in the streets they would be beggars or zombies. Society...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2013
... heroes of the zombie genre such as Ben Huss of George Rome- ro’s filmNight of the Living Dead (1968). In tandem with this shift in gender, Atwood explicitly sets out to challenge the anthropocentrism of the ecocatastrophe genre; as her heroine Toby awakes, she surveys the wreckage of human...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2016
... argues that the zombie-like Hollywood film can yet tell us something about the “political unconscious of contemporary capitalism.” Lie revisits Jameson’s notion of the “waning of affect” (rephrased, in the interview here, as a shift from emotion to intensities), through the psychoanalytic concepts...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 131–149.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the histories of lives “whom the state hardly thinks worth counting at all” (Scheper-Hughes 1992, 30). Zé once told me: “If the hospitals kept these people they would be mad, in the streets they would be beggars or zombies. Society lets them rot because...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 61–82.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Zombies? Visual Mediation of the Citizen/Non-citizen Encounter in Europe's ‘Refugee Crisis.’ ” Popular Communication 17 , no. 2 ( 2019 ): 92 – 108 . ...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 75–96.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of history in which Greece will be remembered as an impending cemetery. In second life, Greeks, having been devoured by living Europeans, may revamp as European zombies. After all, flexibility does not end with bio- logical death.26...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
... modification, such as making “soldiers into drones, our mental divergents into zombies.”62 The reference to “mental divergents” evokes the category of the feeble-­minded that was central to early twentieth-­century eugenics, once again...