Why do we strike on May Day? What is that strike? We strike in solidarity with global labor, our own histories and with each other. The action of striking is not just a withdrawal of labor but what Marina Sitrin calls “striking new relationships.” The actions of refusal to play the part expected of us, in whatever way we can, and imagining other ways of relating to each other are what will constitute a day of generally striking, a striking day.
Online Features
Take Artists Space: Dissensus and the Creation of Agonistic Space
Andrea Liu“What does it mean to be uninvited?” This is the question Benjamin Buchloh posed in response to the work of Christopher D’Arcangelo exhibited at Artists Space in October 2011. D’Arcangelo created unauthorized anarchist interventions into the gallery and erased … Continue reading “Take Artists Space: Dissensus and the Creation of Agonistic Space”
China and the Human Event at CUNY
Social Text Collective
China is everywhere in the news for its astounding economic development and its equally astonishing human rights abuses. Beginning with this curiously inverse relationship between economic success and political rights and freedom, the relationship of China and the human begs … Continue reading “China and the Human Event at CUNY”
On Fear, Theory, and Acting Anyways
Hannah Chadeayne AppelIt has been through my participation in Occupy that I’ve first come to feel my citizenship, not in the narrow national sense, but in a broader sense of intentional political subjectivity in the world. Through my adult life I’ve voted, … Continue reading “On Fear, Theory, and Acting Anyways”
China and the Human
Social Text Collective
Social Text 109/110 (Winter 2011/Spring 2012) The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Rooms C201/C202 Thursday, 19 April 2012, 12-6pm China is everywhere in the news for its astounding economic development and its equally … Continue reading “China and the Human”
In His Own Home
Malini Johar Schueller
In His Own Home (Dir. Malini Johar Schueller & Luce Capco Lincoln): On March 3, 2010, campus police at the University of Florida, responding to a 911 call from a neighbor and colleague who heard screaming next door, broke into … Continue reading “In His Own Home”
Siding with the dispossessed: Interview with Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
Neferti X. M. TadiarJacqueline Aquino Siapno (Joy) is originally from Dagupan City, Pangasinan, Philippines and is married to Fernando `Lasama’ de Araujo, Presidential Candidate in Timor Leste (East Timor) and current President of Parliament. Joy Siapno is the author of Gender, Islam, Nationalism … Continue reading “Siding with the dispossessed: Interview with Jacqueline Aquino Siapno”
Siding with the dispossessed: Interview with Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
Social Text Collective
Jacqueline Aquino Siapno (Joy) is originally from Dagupan City, Pangasinan, Philippines and is married to Fernando `Lasama’ de Araujo, Presidential Candidate in Timor Leste (East Timor) and current President of Parliament. Joy Siapno is the author of Gender, Islam, Nationalism and … Continue reading “Siding with the dispossessed: Interview with Jacqueline Aquino Siapno”
Kony 2012: Inaudible Children
Tavia Nyong'o
Can the subaltern speak? No, but she can certainly sob, with tears of raking loss and, a few rapid film cuts later, tears of heartwarming gratitude. I learned that much watching Kony 2012 this morning, even if, like most people from the … Continue reading “Kony 2012: Inaudible Children”
FORCE: The UC Policy
Social Text CollectiveOpening Reception, 3/14, 3-6pm – Panel discussion on the militarization of the campus police, 3/14, 4:30-5:30pm – Exhibition opens 3/12 through 3/23/2012
Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012
Social Text CollectiveHow 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”
Thursday Feb 23, 5:00PM – GLQ Issue Launch: Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism
Social Text Collective
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”
ST Members Return from Delegation to Palestine
Social Text CollectiveFive faculty from U.S. universities who recently completed a week-long visit to Occupied Palestine and Israel are calling on academic colleagues everywhere to support the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).
ST Members Return from Delegation to Palestine
Social Text CollectiveFive faculty from U.S. universities who recently completed a week-long visit to Occupied Palestine and Israel are calling on academic colleagues everywhere to support the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). The professors, … Continue reading “ST Members Return from Delegation to Palestine”
Revolutionary Expertise?
Hannah Chadeayne AppelAs the New York Occupy movement goes on, it also spreads out. 16 Beaver, Charlotte’s place, and the Atrium of 60 Wall Street (now home to General Assemblies), remain nodes in the occupied downtown real estate network, but the overwhelming … Continue reading “Revolutionary Expertise?”