It is with great sadness that we open this page to commemorate the passing of our colleague and friend Randy Martin. Martin, who joined Social Text in 1983 and served as one of its co-editors from 2000-2006, was one of … Continue reading “Remembering Randy Martin”
The Wikipedia Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) just completed the process of sanctioning a number of editors over edits to the Gamergate controversy page. This has been a controversial decision, with many parties issuing statements, including the Wikimedia Foundation, two of the … Continue reading “The Affective Labor of Wikipedia: GamerGate, Harassment, and Peer Production.”
This post originally appeared on the London Review of Books Blog on July 29, 2014. The Palestinian body count in Gaza has passed 1000, with more than 5000 wounded. Over 70 per cent of the casualties are civilians, including more … Continue reading “Nothing Unintentional”
Artifactualities: Derrida and the Hauntology of Media Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:00-8:00 PM | 239 Greene Street, Floor 8 | New York University RSVP Jacques Derrida was the most brilliant and influential philosopher of media of our time. He had … Continue reading “Artifactualities: Derrida and the Hauntology of Media”
An earlier version of this post was published by Open Democracy on August 12, 2014. In response to the current outbreak of vicious siege warfare in Gaza, satirist John Oliver, on his weekly cable show, reviewed the past decade of … Continue reading “Genocidal desistance in Gaza”
ST PODCAST: Web editor Ashley Dawson sits down with former Social Text editor Andrew Ross to discuss his newest book, Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal (OR Books, 2014).
A PhD does not prepare you for a school shooting. My students are afraid. We are afraid. It’s been almost a week since the tragedy in Isla Vista. A student came into my office Tuesday saying, “Professor, you look hella … Continue reading “Week One: Fear in the Shadow of Violence”
I went with a colleague to Isla Vista (IV as we call it) on Sunday, thinking that as faculty members we could offer our support to students and community members. We were not prepared for what we encountered. News … Continue reading “Investing in Whiteness: the UCSB tragedy and Asian America”
On March 11, 2014, at around 5:30am, students installed three sets of banners about student debt around the UC Davis campus. Three hours later, one set of banners was taken down, and two hours after that, another set had disappeared. … Continue reading “As the World Turns: Spinning the Idea of the University As We Know It”
ST Collective Member Heather Gautney recently published a letter to the editor in The New York Times critiquing the ideology of “choice” that underwrites the privatization of education and “[exacerbates] the problem of ‘apartheid’ schooling.” From her initial letter: “School choice” … Continue reading “NYT Readers Respond to Heather Gautney’s Critique of "School Choice"”
On November 8, 2013, Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name “Haiyan”) made landfall in the Eastern Visayan Islands of the Philippines. With winds of up to 195 mph, it is regarded as the strongest tropical storm of all time. It killed … Continue reading “Photographing Disaster: Typhoon Yolanda”
Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies presents: Beyond Marxism and Performance Studies: a closing plenary session convened in honor of ST Collective Member José Esteban Muñoz. WHEN: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 3:00 – 5:00 pm WHERE: NYU, 721 Broadway, Room … Continue reading “Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies Conference”
These photographs show the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine from the perspective of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. All photographs were made in Lviv between February 19-23, 2014. The Euromaidan revolution began as a public protest in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on … Continue reading “Revolution in Ukraine: The View from Lviv”
A Conference Convened by The Cultures of Finance Working Group at NYU Institute for Public Knowledge March 21, 2014 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor This one day conference brings together a range of heterodox voices on questions of the culture … Continue reading “Gifts, Derivatives and Socialities”
This March, students at UC Davis have launched a multimedia exhibition to bring attention to the issue of student debt. One Debt consists of two parts — a physical component and a virtual social media component — which play off of One … Continue reading “One University, One Debt”
