This essay was my contribution to the panel Global and Transnational Approaches to Race and Racism at the Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference, 15-16 April 2024 at the London School of Economics. I am grateful to Ghada Majadli and … Continue reading “Social Theory after* Gaza? Witnessing the Transnational Circuits of Race-Making”
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Remembering Fredric Jameson
Social Text CollectiveSocial Text remembers the life and work of Fredric Jameson, one of our founding editors. Read an interview with Fredric Jameson and materials about his work establishing the journal here. Read a 2016 interview and a special issue that considers … Continue reading “Remembering Fredric Jameson”
The Productive Body Dismembered: Creative Labor and AI Art
Odin O'SullivanFor Capitalism is the Sophisticated and Materialized Form of the Hatred of Man and of his Body. -François Guéry and Didier Deleule In 2023, the trend “Films if they were directed by Wes Anderson” began to gain popularity on TikTok. … Continue reading “The Productive Body Dismembered: Creative Labor and AI Art”
Two Poems
Judith KirosTranslated by Kira Josefsson Snow Lessons There are many types of ice: white ice, red ice, slick black ice. If only you’d learned to master the ice. If only you’d learned more about the work of translation. If only your … Continue reading “Two Poems”
The problem with beauty is that it convinces me of achievement
Ariel YelenReally it’s just that time has passed, what was green Is now orange This poem compares the seasons And philosophizes beauty in the form of strands I think I owe my boss a hello I think I owe him … Continue reading “The problem with beauty is that it convinces me of achievement”
“Antisemitism” as Asymmetric Warfare: The Casualties of a Definition
Dylan RodríguezThis text is adapted from the opening plenary of the 2023 conference of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Counterinsurgency: Beyond Weaponized Definitions The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s spreading institutionalized definition of antisemitism is not merely weaponized, it … Continue reading ““Antisemitism” as Asymmetric Warfare: The Casualties of a Definition”
It Is a Racial-Religious War: Organizing and a 1492 Transnational Movement Framing
Mohamed AbdouThe so-called global Left, especially within the settlercolonial US-Canadian scene, is discombobulated. “End the Occupation” and “From the River to the Sea,” like Tahrir Square’s 2011 Orientalized so-called Arab Spring chant “Bread, Freedom, and Social Justice,” have turned into prophetic … Continue reading “It Is a Racial-Religious War: Organizing and a 1492 Transnational Movement Framing”
Gridlocks of Death, Oceans of Life
Mariam AbdelazizDear world, This letter is a reclamation. It is a prayer to the universe. It is a plea for you to bear witness. Often, writing demands to be lyrical, poetic, and beautiful. Even when we write about our struggles, there … Continue reading “Gridlocks of Death, Oceans of Life”
Pedagogy Against Genocide
Max WeissOn Monday, April 29, thirteen undergraduate students and one professor occupied Clio Hall on the campus of Princeton University in an attempt to force the administration to meet their demands for a revision of university relations with the state of … Continue reading “Pedagogy Against Genocide”
Pedagogy and Epistemics of Witness: Teaching Palestine in a Time of Genocide
Ahmed KabelI belong to the question of the victim. –Mahmoud Darwish What follows is a thread of perfunctory reflections on a course I offered in January 2024 titled Decolonizing the Study of Palestine. A course is a complex, emergent human (and … Continue reading “Pedagogy and Epistemics of Witness: Teaching Palestine in a Time of Genocide”
Statement on Student Repression at Columbia University
Social Text CollectiveAs a collective of scholars based at academic institutions in and around New York City, we stand in solidarity with students and faculty practicing peaceful protest at Columbia, Barnard, CUNY, NYU, Cornell, the New School, and all across the country. … Continue reading “Statement on Student Repression at Columbia University”
On Responsibility: Critique and Colonization After October 7th
Muhammed Shah Shajahanفَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ ۚ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ رَمَىٰ ۚ وَلِيُبْلِىَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلَآءً حَسَنًا ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌۭ And you do not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you … Continue reading “On Responsibility: Critique and Colonization After October 7th”
The Burden of Witnessing
Arpan RoyWill Eizlini, an American artist of French Jewish descent, tells me that he has been crying every day. When not crying, he is making a series of paintings interpreting the massacres in Gaza—crimson landscapes of sea, sky, dunes, with piles … Continue reading “The Burden of Witnessing”
Trapped Between Spaces: Gaza’s Existential Struggle
Walaa AlfarraIn December 2003, Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, announced in a televised speech Israel’s plans to “disengage” from its control of Gaza through the complete withdrawal of Israeli soldiers and the removal of Israeli settlements from Gaza after … Continue reading “Trapped Between Spaces: Gaza’s Existential Struggle”
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Sulafa Zidaniour decomposing bodies our flesh mixed with dirt our blood flour whatabout semantics pontificate our children at a podium reporters with a plea concerns statements letters Gaza City to Deir el Balah to Khan Younis to … Continue reading “untitled (discourse)”