postcolonialism – Social Text

Society for Sick Societies: Between Pandemia and Pandemonium

Dwaipayan Banerjee

Society for Sick Societies is a diagnostic project. Built as a series of episodes, each one of its vignettes sets out to analyze an expressed symptom of a sick society–a practice, pattern, gesture, proverb, or technique that seems to encapsulate … Continue reading “Society for Sick Societies: Between Pandemia and Pandemonium”

May 28, 2020 | Features

World Cup 2010

Nikhil Pal Singh

In this dossier, a series of football enthusiasts (who also happen to be social and cultural critics), offer their reflections upon the meaning and significance of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Much commentary and controversy has already … Continue reading “World Cup 2010”

July 20, 2010 | Features

Editors for the Social Text Collective: Jonathan Beller; Amber Jamilla Musser; David Sartorius

Editor-at-Large: Tavia Nyong'o

Web Editor / Web Fiction Editor: Anna McCarthy

Managing Editor / Web Poetry Editor: Marie Buck

Arts Editor: Susette Min

Collective: John Andrews; Jonathan Beller; Herman Bennett; Jayna Brown; Filipa Calado; Ed Cohen; Gabriella Coleman; Aimee Meredith Cox; Ashley Dawson; Patrick Deer; Ezekiel Dixon-Román; Ángeles Donoso Macaya; Ana María Dopico; Mark Driscoll; David L. Eng; Allen Feldman; Michael Boyce Gillespie; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Macarena Gómez-Barris; Sarah Haley; Laura Harris; Leon Hilton; Tariq Jazeel; David Kazanjian; Eng-Beng Lim; Michael Mandiberg; Rick Maxwell; Anna McCarthy; Micki McGee; Maya Mikdashi; Susette Min; Nicholas Mirzoeff; Roopali Mukherjee; Amber Jamilla Musser; Tavia Nyong'o; Shireen R. K. Patell; Alex Pittman; Jennifer S. Ponce de León; Jasbir K. Puar; Shana L. Redmond; María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo; David Sartorius; Ella Shohat; Lok Siu; Gustavus Stadler; Neferti X. M. Tadiar; Helga Tawil-Souri; Simón Ventura Trujillo; Hentyle Yapp