American Studies Association President-Elect and NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Lisa Duggan offers background on the “virtual vitriol” that surrounded a recent NYU graduate student conference, “Circuits of Influence: U.S., Israel, Palestine.” Her post appears here in anticipation … Continue reading “Circuits of Influence”
Online Features
BDS and Academic Freedom
Ashley Dawson and Social Text CollectiveThe Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center at CUNY hosts: BDS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM: A Panel Discussion With Bill Mullen (Purdue), Radhika Sainath (Palestine Solidarity Legal Support), Sherry Wolf (International Socialists Review), ST Collective Member and Web … Continue reading “BDS and Academic Freedom”
Educational Outliers Unconference
Michael Mandiberg and Social Text CollectiveWhat are the theoretical and political repercussions of education outside of a traditional classroom? Whether spurred on by a tidal wave of student debt, changes in technology, or new and nontraditional learning scenarios emerging from various academic disciplines, DIY education is … Continue reading “Educational Outliers Unconference”
An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of Stuart Hall
Social Text CollectiveTHE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: THE SOUND OF WHAT CANNOT BE: An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of Stuart Hall SCREENING: The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah, 2013) + reflections and reminiscences by prominent New York intellectuals including … Continue reading “An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of Stuart Hall”
When the Market Goes Marching In
Salimah Hankins and Balthazar Becker
Work Reviewed: Adams, Vincanne: Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina. Durham, NC & London: Duke UP, 2013. Markets of Sorrow, Labor of Faith, Vincanne Adams argues, “is not about Hurricane Katrina” (1). Instead, … Continue reading “When the Market Goes Marching In”
Social Text Condemns New York State Assembly's Attack on Free Speech
Ashley DawsonThe Social Text Collective strongly opposes New York State Assembly Bill 8392. This pending legislation would prohibit colleges and universities in New York State from using state funding to support employees’ participation in academic groups or associations that have passed … Continue reading “Social Text Condemns New York State Assembly's Attack on Free Speech”
From The Cinematic Mode of Production to Computational Capital: An Interview with Jonathan Beller for Kulturpunkt
Jonathan Beller
Social Text Collective Member Jonathan Beller, interviewed for Kulturpunkt by Ante Jeric and Diana Meheik. Re-posted from Kulturpunkt.hr. Thanks to Tanja Vrvilo and Film Mutations. KP: The Cinematic Mode of Production is the term by which you seem to be introducing a … Continue reading “From The Cinematic Mode of Production to Computational Capital: An Interview with Jonathan Beller for Kulturpunkt”
Remembering José Esteban Muñoz
Social Text CollectiveIt is with great sadness that we share the passing of colleague and friend José Esteban Muñoz. Muñoz was a member of the Social Text editorial collective for many years and his contributions to the intellectual and social life of the … Continue reading “Remembering José Esteban Muñoz”
An Interview with Alondra Nelson
Social Text Collective and Alondra NelsonSocial Text Collective Member Alondra Nelson discusses her research on the Black Panther Party’s health activism, criminalization, and public health policy as part of the JustPublics @365 podcast series.
The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire
Social Text CollectiveSocial Text Collective Member Ashley Dawson joins David Harvey, Faris Al-Ahmad Zwiran, and Rasha Arabi of the CUNY Graduate Center and Ali Issa of the War Resisters League and Jadaliyya for a panel discussion co-sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture, and … Continue reading “The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire”
Arab Talk Interview: Neferti Tadiar on Palestine
Social Text Collective and Neferti X. M. TadiarArab Talk recently posted an archived interview with Social Text Collective Member and Co-Editor Neferti X. M. Tadiar about her trip to Palestine in 2012, sponsored by the USACBI. You can also read Tadiar’s article “Why the Question of Palestine … Continue reading “Arab Talk Interview: Neferti Tadiar on Palestine”
The Shadows Took Shape
Social Text CollectiveSocial Text Collective Member Alondra Nelson joins fellow catalogue contributors on November 21st for a panel discussion of “The Shadows Took Shape,” an exhibition on Afrofuturist aesthetics – now on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem. For tickets, visit … Continue reading “The Shadows Took Shape”
An Interview with Ella Shohat
Social Text CollectiveJadaliyya interviews Social Text Collective Member Ella Shohat on partition and the problematics of national belonging for Arab Jews, in “Bodies and Borders.”
Podcast with Ashley Dawson
Social Text Collective and Ashley DawsonSocial Text Web Editor Ashley Dawson discusses his research and activism as part of the Just Publics @365 podcast series.
Why I Occupy
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Social Text Collective Member Nicholas Mirzoeff reads his September 2012 Public Culture essay “Why I Occupy.”