How can access to important research and scholarship be available to all, not just “the one percent”? OnTuesday, February 28, at 12:00 PM in Columbia University’s Faculty House Presidential Rooms 2 & 3, join us for “Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening … Continue reading “Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012”
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Thursday Feb 23, 5:00PM – GLQ Issue Launch: Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism
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GLQ ISSUE LAUNCH QUEER STUDIES AND THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Volume 18, Number 1, 2012 edited by Jordana Rosenberg and Amy Villarejo JOIN US! FEBRUARY 23, 2012, 5:00 PM Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl NYC Come celebrate … Continue reading “Thursday Feb 23, 5:00PM – GLQ Issue Launch: Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism”
Social Text Fall Books
Social Text CollectiveThe Collective is proud to announce the following recent publications by Social Text authors:
Sujatha Fernandes. Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation. New York: Verso, 2011.
Nicholas Mirzoeff. The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Alondra Nelson. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
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Reparations and the Human
Social Text CollectiveA Lecture by David L. Eng
September 28, Wednesday
6:30 to 8 pm
This presentation explores the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation. Reparation is a key term in political theory, but it is also a central concept in psychoanalysis (specifically object relations theory), yet the two are rarely discussed in relation to one another. In this talk, I will explore how political and psychic genealogies of reparation might supplement one another in theories of the human and discourses of human rights, while helping us to understand better the social and psychic limits of repairing war, violence, colonialism, and genocide.
Saher Shah: Object Anxiety
Social Text CollectiveSaher Shah, whose art is on the cover of Social Text #108, is having a solo exhibition at Scaramouche gallery in New York between now and October 30, 2011. From the gallery:
Featuring a collection of drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptural
works, “Object Anxiety” continues the artist’s exploration of
architectural modernism, specifically, new Brutalism’s engineered social
spaces and urban environments.
works, “Object Anxiety” continues the artist’s exploration of
architectural modernism, specifically, new Brutalism’s engineered social
spaces and urban environments.
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Launch Party for Social Text 106: "Interspecies"
Social Text CollectivePlease join us to toast the publication of a special issue of Social Text on Interspecies, edited by Julie Livingston and Jasbir K. Puar!
Industries of production and scientific research rely on the use of nonhuman animals and plants, remaking environments, populations, and even genetic information to suit human designs. This issue of Social Text considers the radical implications of questioning the exceptional status of humans among the planet’s species. Responding to growing interest in animal studies and posthumanism, the contributors draw on racial, feminist, queer, postcolonial, and disability theories to probe the diversity of human relationships with other forms of biosocial life. Interspecies queries the politics of traditional species taxonomy and examines the ways humans use the material characteristics of other species to pursue their economic, political, and social aims.
Anna McCarthy in conversation with Alexander Provan
Social Text CollectiveSocial Text co-editor will moderate a discussion on digital publishing with Triple Canopy editor Alexander Provan and scholar Dan Cohen at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor, Tuesday April 7th, 2011, at 6 PM.
Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Photo ID required.
Don't Take the Bait: The Left and Crisis – A Social Text Roundtable
Social Text CollectiveThe recent financial crisis would seem to present precisely the opportunity that the left has been waiting for: a moment of reckoning when failure is undeniable and injustice unconcealed. Yet crisis has not proven to be so ready or willing an object to think with. Financiers continue to take crisis as their opportunity, while misery continues to be spread around. How the left might see itself if crisis is taken as its mirror? <a href="http://socialtextjournal.org/blog/2011/03/2011-left-forum-dont-take-the-bait-the-left-and-crisis-a-social-text-roundtable.php". Read more
New Middle Eastern Uprisings: Gender, Class and Security Politics in Egypt and Iran
Social Text CollectiveTuesday, Feb. 22, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
20 Cooper Square, 4th floor
The recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are electrifying the Middle East and the world. At this lunch time panel, Paul Amar will lay out the forces behind the popular democracy movement in Egypt, and Manijeh Nasrabadi will offer some comparisons to the Green Revolution in Iran. Both will address the wider context of popular revolt in the Middle East. Come, bring your lunch, and engage in discussion about these momentous events.
Brent Edwards on NYC Jazz in the 1970s
Ashley DawsonColumbia University professor and Social Text member Brent Edwards to speak on Jazz in NYC during the 1970s In jazz history, the 1970s have habitually been overlooked or dismissed as a period when the music went into severe decline. But … Continue reading “Brent Edwards on NYC Jazz in the 1970s”
Labor & Social Transformation at the Brecht Forum
Michael RalphWednesday December 15th, 2010 7:30 PM
Brecht Forum: Strategic Visions Series Labor & Social Transformation
We are facing multiple crises–financial, social, economic, ecological, cultural…–but progressive forces are very much on the defensive. How do we forge a new politics that puts labor rights and human needs first? Panelists could be asked to draw from their own thinking and experience.
Towards a Politics of Solidarity
Social Text CollectiveThe call for proposals for next year’s Left Forum is now out. The Forum will take place March 18-20, 2011, at Pace University in New York. Click here for more information.
Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
Social Text CollectiveThis talk, drawn from David L. Eng’s recent book The Feeling of Kinship, has been canceled and will be re-scheduled for 2011.
From Bolivia to the Bronx and Beyond
Ashley DawsonJoin ST collective member Ashley Dawson on Saturday, September 18th for a forum on Climate Justice featuring Father Miguel D’Escoto, former President of the U.N. General Assembly, Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solon, Tanya Fields of Mothers on the Move (Bronx), and … Continue reading “From Bolivia to the Bronx and Beyond”
Featured on NPR: The Citizen Machine
Social Text CollectiveSocial Text Collective member Anna McCarthy was a guest on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show to discuss her recent book The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950’s America.
The interview aired on the August 3rd broadcast but can be listened to in its entirety by clicking the link above.