Inside our latest issue (12.2)
-cultural studies toward a free Palestine
-craft, ritual & music in precolonial South Africa
-analysis of video from Jan 6 US Capitol riot
-gig work in 1970s Singapore
-Towards Third Worlding forum
-Positions podcast ep. 2
https://t.co/5wT5vImoMO
It’s no secret that I am pretty damn cringeworthy, but being perceived as “cringe” is a pretty common crip experience. In “Cringe Theory,” for @LateralJournal, I offer some language for why that is.
As always, I spilled my heart for this one 🖤
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Heather Davis's Plastic Matter (@DukePress) sheds light on the implications of plastic's synthetic universality, inviting readers to reflect critically on their relationship with plastic material and also with matter more generally, writes Chayene Wild https://t.co/C8k6vw0WvK
In Feels Right (@DukePress), Kemi Adeyemi shows how Black queer women’s moves on the dance floor reveal, navigate, bend, and upset entanglements that overdetermine their rights to feel, to belong, and to take place in the city, writes Naz Oktay https://t.co/HRRRwXbuH1
Sampada Aranke’s Death’s Futurity (@DukePress) centers generative politics of fugitivity & futurity while directing readers to “politicized looking,” turning state-sanctioned violence & repression into galvanizing moments of action, writes @jennamwilson1 https://t.co/HI2a0g5eNg
In Passionate Work (@DukePress), @HongRenyi argues that passion at work is an affective structure perpetuated by capitalism to maintain its injustices and discipline workers https://t.co/IRWtBfi6fN
In her second book, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property (@DukePress), Minh-ha T. Pham continues her examination of fashion’s digital labors, by analyzing crowdsourced intellectual property regulation https://t.co/2wSo23Fonw
Renyi Hong & Zachary Mun Wei Chan explore the gendered nature of gig culture and how a taxi workers' cooperative created possibilities and restraints for working-class Singaporeans in and beyond the 1970s https://t.co/MOy2fjhaQR
Inside our latest issue (12.2)
-cultural studies toward a free Palestine
-craft, ritual & music in precolonial South Africa
-analysis of video from Jan 6 US Capitol riot
-gig work in 1970s Singapore
-Towards Third Worlding forum
-Positions podcast ep. 2
https://t.co/5wT5vImoMO
Co-authors James N. Gilmore, Madeline Hamer, Valerie Erazo, and Patrick Hayes return to January 6, 2021, examining how affect and social media help to cultivate and disseminate extremist political views https://t.co/Y2Cd7NjAIy
The CSA invites proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies, with priority given to those that engage this year's theme of “Expansions"
Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:59pm EST
2024 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Expansions
May 30 - June 1, 2024
Online and in-person, hosted by The Cultural Studies Association & Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus in Savannah, Georgia, USA
https://t.co/FH9nwEEGq2
Thokozani N Mhlambi analyzes craft specializations in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) in relation to cultural and ritual repertoires that predate European colonialism, offering a wider regional and continental history that can inform African identities today https://t.co/FIt9W2PtWu
Responding to Palestinian organizers’ calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way forward—the only way we can commit to a #FreePalestine https://t.co/SGG12oLndQ
Inside our latest issue (12.2)
-cultural studies toward a free Palestine
-craft, ritual & music in precolonial South Africa
-analysis of video from Jan 6 US Capitol riot
-gig work in 1970s Singapore
-Towards Third Worlding forum
-Positions podcast ep. 2
https://t.co/5wT5vImoMO
Brave and powerful editors’ introduction in this issue of @lateraljournal, foregrounding a twin commitment to #abolition and anti-colonial praxis as the bedrock of the work of cultural studies.
Take heart and breath! And read: "Cultural Studies toward a Free #Palestine”
Ben Davis’ Art in the After-Culture (@haymarketbooks) pushes against exploitative capitalist systems and ambitions towards decentralization, advocating for creative practitioners to strategically influence the direction of society https://t.co/pMAQN7nqSU