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Anna McCarthy in conversation with Alexander Provan

Social Text Collective

Social Text co-editor will moderate a discussion on digital publishing with Triple Canopy editor Alexander Provan and scholar Dan Cohen at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor, Tuesday April 7th, 2011, at 6 PM.
Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Photo ID required.

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Four Questions about the Libyan Bombing Campaign

Omar Dahbour

What is the point of the bombing campaign against Libya? To answer this question, it would be nice if we could reach some certainty about what is going on in Libya itself. But this is not going to be easy, in the absence of specialist knowledge about the parties and players involved in the internal conflict. Certainly, Qaddafi, a world figure of some notoriety, seeks to maintain his power in the face of internal opposition. But who is this opposition?

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Proposals for Periscope

Biella Coleman

 Social Text is currently accepting proposals for Periscope, the journal’s curated web forum of illuminating critical opinion on contemporary political and theoretical affairs.  Previous Periscopes have focused on topics as diverse as Queer Suicide, the South African World Cup, and … Continue reading “Proposals for Periscope”

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New Middle Eastern Uprisings: Gender, Class and Security Politics in Iran

Manijeh Moradian

You know times have changed when the question, “Is Iran next?” no longer refers to whether Iran will be the next target in the US “war on terror,” but whether or not it will be next to succumb to a wave of revolutions. I obviously don’t have the answer but I can say that there is a profound radicalization under way in Iranian society that overruns the boundaries of class and sweeps across the continuum from religious to secular.

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Nuclear Woes

Janet Ng

Several times within the last century, Japan came close to national annihilation, or so it must have seemed to many in Japan. The 1923 Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo, Yokohama and a number of surrounding prefectures, killed 140,000 people. The … Continue reading “Nuclear Woes”

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Nuclear Power/Knowledge

Ashley Dawson

The ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant intensified today, with worrying news emerging of radioactive iodine in Tokyo’s water supply. The entire infrastructure of one of the world’s most modern and cohesive societies seems to be threatened … Continue reading “Nuclear Power/Knowledge”

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Don't Take the Bait: The Left and Crisis – A Social Text Roundtable

Social Text Collective

The recent financial crisis would seem to present precisely the opportunity that the left has been waiting for: a moment of reckoning when failure is undeniable and injustice unconcealed. Yet crisis has not proven to be so ready or willing an object to think with. Financiers continue to take crisis as their opportunity, while misery continues to be spread around. How the left might see itself if crisis is taken as its mirror? <a href="http://socialtextjournal.org/blog/2011/03/2011-left-forum-dont-take-the-bait-the-left-and-crisis-a-social-text-roundtable.php". Read more

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New Middle Eastern Uprisings: Gender, Class and Security Politics in Egypt and Iran

Social Text Collective

Tuesday, Feb. 22, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
20 Cooper Square, 4th floor
The recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are electrifying the Middle East and the world. At this lunch time panel, Paul Amar will lay out the forces behind the popular democracy movement in Egypt, and Manijeh Nasrabadi will offer some comparisons to the Green Revolution in Iran. Both will address the wider context of popular revolt in the Middle East. Come, bring your lunch, and engage in discussion about these momentous events.

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