Social Text collective member José Muñoz will be among the presenters at this state of the field conference on performance, to be held July 8th - 10th, 2010, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Click here for the full conference program. »
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Performing the Future
July 5, 2010 8:51AM
New dossier on Cruising Utopia
June 28, 2010 10:55AM
As we exit a more contentious than usual month of Gay Pride, Social Text brings you this dossier of critical appreciations of long-standing collective member José Esteban Muñoz's new book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Read responses from Lauren Berlant, Barbara Browning, Gayatri Gopinath, and Ricardo Ortiz. Muñoz responds to his responses, and performance art legend Vaginal Davis contributes an original illustration inspired by Cruising Utopia. »
Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire
June 19, 2010 5:16PM
Social Text collective member Lisa Duggan is among the speakers at this conference to be held 24-26 June, 2010 at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire, according to it's organizers, will "explore how desire not only sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy." Read the full conference statement and get more details here.»
Report from 'Innovation and the American Metropolis' conference
April 19, 2010 7:53PM
Postcard: Heaven and/or Hell
April 10, 2010 10:26AM
By Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner. Suppose you take a barefoot walk along the sweeping stretch of white-powder China Beach toward what the marines called Monkey Mountain (toward Da Nang, that is, where U.S. soldiers were sent for R&R--the first marines deployed to Vietnam, came ashore at Namo Beach, on the north end of Da Nang in '65). It's best, if you have any sort of a sensitive streak, not to allow your gaze to stray too far ashore. »
Postcard: Phnom Penh Notes
April 4, 2010 5:47PM
By Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner. Travel: Getting from this place to that place in one piece. We arrived in Phnom Penh on the so-called fast boat from Chau Doc, a mere six hours upriver, and weighing at least two kilos lighter, after the slow/fast sweatbath in the ever-increasing heat. At the Viet/Cambodian border, a minor blip with Sherry's passport might well have sent us back downriver.»
Postcard: Saigon Letter
April 2, 2010 9:39AM
By Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner. Sherry and I arrived at Tan Son Nhut Airport--a designation like so many others with a grim resonance for us for more than forty years--just minutes before Tet, the week-long New Year's Festival was to begin. Outside the airport people were clamoring for taxis--so anxious or so excited were they to get into Saigon proper before the Year of the Tiger began. We got in the mood. »
Rekindling the Radical Imagination
January 21, 2010 4:44PM
Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. The theme for 2010 is "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination." Find out more information, propose a panel, or register for the forum here.»
Panel Discussion and Book Party, 20 November 2009
November 13, 2009 10:23AM
November 20, 2009 Friday4 to 6 PMDepartment of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU20 Cooper Square, 4th FloorPanel members:Event and panel host: Lisa Duggan (SCA, NYU)The Queer Child: Or Growing Sideways in the 20th Century (Series Q, Duke University Press) Kathryn...»
New from Social Text Authors
October 30, 2009 2:06PM
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice Edited by Heather D. Gautney, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson. Routledge, 2009.Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to...»
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