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Nonknowledge as Capacity: Randy Martin’s Knowledge LTD and the Limits of Rationality in the Age of the Derivative

John Andrews

Journalist Farhad Manjoo describes the “post-fact society” as “a parallel universe of fact: a place at once part of the mainland but profoundly distant from it, a place where another truth—a truth pocked with holes, but one just true enough … Continue reading “Nonknowledge as Capacity: Randy Martin’s Knowledge LTD and the Limits of Rationality in the Age of the Derivative”

March 20, 2017 | Features: Reviews

A Spillage of the Fugitive Variety

Marquis Bey

Marquis Bey interviews Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of the poetry collection Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Read an excerpt from book here. Marquis Bey: So I want to begin, if I may, expressing to you how utterly thankful I … Continue reading “A Spillage of the Fugitive Variety”

March 17, 2017 | Features: Interviews

Big Man

Lauren Berlant

1. On Genre Flailing In a crisis we engage in genre flailing so that we don’t fall through the cracks of knowledge and noise into suicide or psychosis. In a crisis we improvise like crazy, where “like crazy” is a … Continue reading “Big Man”

January 19, 2017 | Features

The “No You Can’t” of Italian Neo-Marxist Dissent

Stefano Ciammaroni

On December 4th of last year, Italians voted “no” in a referendum on constitutional reforms that would have allowed Parliament to make bills into laws without Senate approval. A date that for the proponents of the reform should have ushered … Continue reading “The “No You Can’t” of Italian Neo-Marxist Dissent”

January 9, 2017 | Features

Tolstoy College: The War and Peace of an Anarchist Education

Jennifer Wilson

When I asked the instructors of Tolstoy College if they found anything contradictory about establishing an anarchist college funded by the state of New York, they all kind of shrugged it off. Peter Murphy, who taught courses on radical history, … Continue reading “Tolstoy College: The War and Peace of an Anarchist Education”

December 21, 2016 | Features

What Is the French Left to Do?

Sylvie Mikowski

When they vote in January’s primaries, leftists in France must choose entre la peste et la cholera. On 21 May 2002, millions of French people watched with surprise, anger, or disgust as the face of Jean-Marie Le Pen appeared on … Continue reading “What Is the French Left to Do?”

December 20, 2016 | Features

Ballot Box as Klan Hood and the Rest of Us in the Wake of the Election of Donald Trump as 45th US President

Roshanak Kheshti

I write not with the expertise of a political scientist or demographer, those emperors of data and partisan, capital ‘P’ politics whose new clothes—AKA ‘big data’-informed poll predictions—have only just been revealed to some (not others) as ruse. I write … Continue reading “Ballot Box as Klan Hood and the Rest of Us in the Wake of the Election of Donald Trump as 45th US President”

November 30, 2016 | Features

Antigone in St. Paul, Minnesota

Nicholas Mirzoeff

On July 6, 2016, St. Anthony police shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop. The police thought his “wide-set nose” matched that of a robbery suspect. For Mr. Castile, this was the forty-sixth and last such stop he would endure … Continue reading “Antigone in St. Paul, Minnesota”

November 21, 2016 | Features

Songs for Our Times

Anna McCarthy

We asked Gus Stadler to recommend some Woody Guthrie songs. He did not fail us. ALL YOU FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE THE JOLLY BANKER THIS LAND IS OUR LAND (with private property verse) BETTER WORLD A-COMIN’

November 17, 2016 | Features

From the Web Editor

Anna McCarthy

Nine days after Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, Social Text Online is relaunched. The timing couldn’t be better. Or worse. What to say in times like these, and so soon? Or even, how to phrase the … Continue reading “From the Web Editor”

November 15, 2016 | Features

On Precarity and the Freedom from Security

Ana Vujanović

Work Reviewed: Lorey, Isabell: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious New York & London: Verso, 2015. Editor’s Note: What does it mean to make a living, or a life for oneself, today? We live in a moment when corporations … Continue reading “On Precarity and the Freedom from Security”

November 12, 2016 | Features: Reviews

New Print Issue: Spring 2013

Social Text Collective

Volume 31, Number 1 114, Spring 2013 Charlie Samuya Veric Third World Project, or How Poco Failed Tryon P. Woods “Beat It like a Cop”: The Erotic Cultural Politics of Punishment in the Era of Postracialism Denise Ferreira da Silva … Continue reading “New Print Issue: Spring 2013”

September 27, 2013 | Features

The Poetry of the Search Engine, part 2

Anna McCarthy

September 27, 2013 | Features

The Poetry of the Search Engine

Anna McCarthy

September 27, 2013 | Features

Cruel Optimism: New Social Text Periscope Dossier

Social Text Collective

Lauren Berlant’s most recent book, Cruel Optimism (Duke UP, 2011), undertakes the ambitious and necessary project of thinking the political present. Cruel Optimism attends closely to what goes undernoticed about living in relation to waning or worn-out models of legibility, sovereignty and sustainability. This dossier assembles … Continue reading “Cruel Optimism: New Social Text Periscope Dossier”

September 27, 2013 | Features