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In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life

The line separating the "good life" and the savagery that the "good life" requires, or, perhaps what might be articulated as the line between the space of biopolitics and the space of necropolitics, is maintained in the present through both practices of global policing and imperial war. These practices of policing and war produce the very global refuse that constantly threatens the "good life"—actively wasting the lives and livelihoods of people and non-human lifeworlds Western colonialism established as the raw materials, instruments, and objects of its civilizational goal—against which violence acts to protect a fundamentally human life worth living. At the same time, through capital-intensive projects of "saving" the very targeted populations it destroys, permanent war also produces the subordinated life that will come to serve as the means of maintaining and upholding that "good life." Beyond this mode of colonial inhabitation, however, subsist other ecologies of life-making practices on the part of those deemed disposable, a planetary remainder which might well be our only hope for a possible future.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Loosed Upon the World -- One. Prostituted Filipinas and the Crisis of Philippine Culture -- Two. Women Alone -- Three. Poetics of Filipina Export -- Four. Modern Refuse in the ''City of Man'' -- Five. Petty Adventures in (the Nation's) Capital -- Six. Metropolitan Debris -- Seven. Revolutionary Imagination and the Masses -- Eight. Guerilla Passion and the Unfinished Cultural Revolution -- Nine. The Sorrows of People -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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This essay introduces Social Text's collaborative issue on the events of 2020.

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This collectively written essay meditates on sociality, mediation, death, and life during Pandemic 2020.

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In the middle of the global pandemic of 2020, as states of emergency were declared in both the Philippines and the United States, Filipinx scholars offer memories and reflections of life under martial law in the Philippines and its aftermath and resonances in the present.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE -- I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights -- ONE. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification -- TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary -- THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization -- FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State -- FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization -- SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See -- II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University -- SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education -- EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means -- NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University -- TEN. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity -- ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing -- III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital -- TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery -- THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification -- FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People -- FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag -- IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity -- SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention -- SEVENTEEN. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 -- EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life -- NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain -- TWENTY. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above -- V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures -- TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire -- TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence -- TWENTY-THREE. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn -- TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana -- TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index