This article argues that the phrase “monopoly of violence,” which circulates in so many contemporary academic critiques of the liberal state, is not adequate to describe the nature of violence deployed by settler colonial societies against Indigenous and racialized … Continue reading “The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence”
Issue: Issue 124: Fall 2015
Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration
Dylan RodriguezOur problem is “genocide,” as an incomplete accounting of gendered racial and racial-colonial violence. The mid-20th century enunciation of the genocide concept—in and beyond the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide—attempts a … Continue reading “Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration”
Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled
jasbir puar“Transgender rights are the civil rights issue of our time.” So stated Vice-President Joe Biden just one week before the November 2012 election. This article critically reframes calls such as this by foregrounding a historical trajectory not celebrated by … Continue reading “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”
Mick Jagger as Mother
Judith PerainoIn an interview from 1974 David Bowie makes a remarkable statement: “For the West, Jagger is most certainly a mother figure… . I also find him incredibly motherly and maternal clutched into his bosom of ethnic blues.” The image … Continue reading “Mick Jagger as Mother”
Movement After Randy Martin
May JosephThis section collects a series of short reflections on the life, camaraderie, and scholarship of Randy Martin, a longtime member of the Social Text editorial collective. In place of definitive, authoritative analyses of Martin’s work, these pieces present a … Continue reading “Movement After Randy Martin”