From the Classroom to Gaza: Belated Narratives and the Shared Struggle for FreedomSumaya HajIn my undergraduate course Criticism: Theory and Practice, at Birzeit University—a course that introduces students to the building blocks of literary form—we read A. E. Housman’s poem “The Grizzly Bear.” The Housman poem reads: The Grizzly Bear is huge and … Continue reading "From the Classroom to Gaza: Belated Narratives and the Shared Struggle for Freedom"
A Hundred Years of Coloniality: Sedulur Sikep and Fitri DK’s Nyawiji Ibu BumiAmos UrsiaFitri DK: Nyawiji Ibu Bumi at Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, Juni 13 – August 9, 2025 Emerging reports in a 1930 Dutch East Indies newspaper described the Samin movement, an anti-colonial messianic movement that spread throughout Java. … Continue reading "A Hundred Years of Coloniality: Sedulur Sikep and Fitri DK’s Nyawiji Ibu Bumi"
Black Limbs, White Laws: On Patricia J. Williams’s The Miracle of the Black LegLilly MarkakiPatricia J. Williams’s The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law (The New Press, 2024) opens with a meditation on bodily and spiritual integrity, the distinction between constitutional and contractual law, … Continue reading "Black Limbs, White Laws: On Patricia J. Williams’s The Miracle of the Black Leg"
Two Poems from NeutrøisSyd ZolfD&G&KRAFFT-EBING masculine days of dumbfounded machinic reserve an hour and a body wanting on animal street oxycephalic wolves and someone sequencing meat some father’s involution from pelvis to rough old they a composition probably watching the horse fish … Continue reading "Two Poems from Neutrøis"
A Review of Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial StyleMarc RidgellAliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture (Duke University Press, 2024) astutely valorizes the speculative power and experimentation practices of black feminist and queer writers and artists who have produced works since the 1980s, … Continue reading "A Review of Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style"
Call for Papers: Colonial Studies of the PlatformSocial Text CollectiveThis special issue of Social Text critically thinks through how models of contemporary platforms such as Amazon or Google are reproductions of colonial capitalist enterprises such as The East India Company. Authors are invited to engage the field of digital … Continue reading "Call for Papers: Colonial Studies of the Platform"
from DOGLESSKatherine Franco[Dogless I] Life is long and I crossed my fingers. Sparred through death and others Through play. School. It’s me. Schooled. Post-Labor Day and the line Down. Good dog. Very good. Like I return to my craft at the end … Continue reading "from DOGLESS"
Remembering Fredric JamesonSocial Text CollectiveSocial Text remembers the life and work of Fredric Jameson, one of our founding editors. Read an interview with Fredric Jameson and materials about his work establishing the journal here. Read a 2016 interview and a special issue that considers … Continue reading "Remembering Fredric Jameson"