...Mark Jones Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 71 of 252 6943 boundar Alarmism, Public-Sphere Performatives, and the Lyric Turn: Or, What Is ‘‘Fears in Solitude’’ Afraid...

... in the Cuban Public Sphere Desiderio Navarro Translated by Alessandro Fornazzari and Desiderio Navarro In the midst of public things: that is where...

...Qing Liu; Barrett McCormick This paper examines how market-oriented reforms to media are changing the public sphere in contemporary China with particular concern for how the commercialization of media may impact the prospects for democracy. While the authors find “public sphere” a problematic...

...Andrew Warren This is a review essay of Angus Fletcher’s posthumous The Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands (2016). Fletcher’s guiding intuition is that topology—a vast, foundational, formally rigorous pillar of modern mathematics—can offer fresh, useful ways of seeing and thinking...

..., allowing foreign organizations into the sphere of the human nervous system. To locate their “animalady,” poets might become reading and writing machines, to deconstruct the singular animal and listen as human animals. Poetry Animal...

... to contain and disavow racism and imperialism. I propose to integrate within the postcolonial sphere methods and approaches from anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, which have produced a significant body of work on everyday socialist and postsocialist practices...

... at the “liberal consensus,” held to be dominating the ideological frameworks of these countries in the 1990s. Offering the metaphor of Kulturkampf as a heuristic model to interpret the interplay between political claims and the battle for hegemony in the public sphere, it revisits some of the central...

... about the existential shape of all human experience from the Spheres trilogy; a psychagogical lesson about the continual need for self-development from You Must Change Your Life ; and a moral lesson about the world-shifting power of mood from Rage and Time . These lessons are compared to their sources...

...Eric Cheyfitz This essay analyzes the current historical moment in the United States, where, it argues, ideology has been displaced in the public sphere by what the essay defines as Disinformation . The term itself is Russian in origin, coined in 1949. While the essay retains disinformation ’s...

...Stephen Carter Abstract This essay explores Norman O. Brown's conception of politics and metapolitics. Brown describes politics via Freud's family romance, as a sphere of conflict between fathers and sons. The first part of the argument focuses on Brown's notion of the fraternal—collectivities...

...Palmar Álvarez-Blanco What do we learn when we study the historical connections between the political sphere—events that make headlines—and the politics of daily life? What role have self-managed communities of practice and their networks played in the socioeconomic, political, and cultural...

... as space, community, and social process. By engaging Mao's film practice and critical writings, I test the promise and limits of cultural techniques to reopen the question of culture and public sphere without privileging the a priori of technical operations as the programmability of society. Figure 8...

...Leah Feldman Two types of translation dominated the social sphere of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war at the beginning of the twentieth century: the translation of diverse languages in the multilingual empire and a Marxist-Leninist linguistic turn that emphasized the role of dialectical...

... old and present social wounds; in short, from going public and thereby introducing discursive cacophony into what passes for the prevailing public sphere of the ‘‘humanities’’ profession? If no consen- sus exists about...

... substantive economy, he claims, took different forms throughout history (the market being only one of them). Thus, to economize means subjecting a sphere of human exis- tence—in this instance, substantive economy—to the formal logic attached to the means-ends­ relationship. By arguing that Aristotle...

... in the value and function attached to each. A contemporary version, quite different from Gramsci’s, is based on Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communication and ‘‘pure speech It regards civil society as the public sphere in which ratio- nal deliberation and discussion take place, and from which passion, appe...

... to it, under the title of power” (SW 1, 248). It might seem as if Benjamin’s point is that law-­instating or the found- ing of law cannot have a further justification within the sphere of law and is therefore a moment of violence. Since law-­instating must always pre- cede law-­preserving, we would...

... by understanding it as “the process of struggle against privatization, the process of enlarging this sphere” (le processus de lutte contre cette privatisation, le processus d’élargissement de cette sphere) (62). The 15M movement seemed to arrive at the same conclusion that Rancière arrives at in his essay...

..., but also and much more importantly within the sphere of civil society where consensus is generated. Consequently, Gramsci ex- plains, civil society in the modern liberal State is the arena wherein the pre- vailing hegemony is constantly being reinforced, not just contested. The observation...

... and regulate academia, not to mention its im- 3 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 58 of 237 plicit relationship to the public sphere. This is worth special attention, in light of the modernizing-cum-professionalizing forces...