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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 471–480.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ritu Birla Gandhi's thematics of addiction mark him as acutely present in his time, even as they launch his temporal performativity. Publicized via transnational debates on the legality of opium and anxieties about the market as casino, the problem of addiction reflected the circulation of law...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 357–366.
Published: 01 May 2007
... life,” writes a recovering methamphetamine addict on a blog dedicated to the drug. Ice, Glass, Tina, Crystal, Crank, Hillbilly Heroin, Poor Man’s Crack, Black Beauties, Tweak, P, and the Diligence Drug — these are all names for speed. It is a relatively cheap yet cherished substance...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 295–322.
Published: 01 May 2003
... injured by cigarettes in the legal sense. This change is due to the work of a recent wave of litigants who have shown successfully that tobacco corporations falsely advertised, defectively designed, and knowingly sold an addictive product...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 247–248.
Published: 01 January 2006
.... Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. Stannard-Friel, Don. 2005. City Baby and Star: Addiction, Transcendence, and the Tenderloin. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 201–203.
Published: 01 January 2014
... . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Raikhel, Eugene, and William Garriott, eds. 2013. Addiction Trajectories . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Raunig, Gerald. 2013. Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity . Los Angeles: Semiotext(e). Reece, Erik, and James J. Krupa. 2013. The Embattled...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 155–162.
Published: 01 January 1992
... by reading Crime and Punishment or viewing a print of The Rape of Europa. Among the conditions known to breed crime are poverty, racism, drug addiction, al- cohol abuse, child abuse, emotional deprivation and other forms of family or social dys- function. Indeed, the roots of crime are deep...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 399–428.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and early 1990s, Liu Zheng was still a college student at Beijing’s University of Sci- ence and Technology. Majoring in optics, he took an elementary photography class and became addicted to the camera. Unsatisfied with the school’s offerings on the subject (the course...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 415–417.
Published: 01 September 2017
... an addict has achieved salvation, through a “hermeneutics of life” that proceeds by “reading the body for signs of the soul.” O’Neill traces a history of the mug shot and early criminology, narrating how these practices arrived in Guatemala in the nineteenth century and how they now function as a new form...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 67–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... This slippage begins with material developments rather than theological assumptions, with money rather than conviction. Pastor Allende, to explain, spent two decades running a Christian rehabilitation center for alcoholics and drug addicts...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 619–622.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... 2008. Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Zumkhawala-Cook, Richard. 2008. Scotland as We Know It: Representations...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 May 2004
... either alcoholism or tobacco addiction, compulsive gamblers have the highest suicide rate of any addict population. The perils of gambling lie not in direct physical injury but in bankruptcy: one informant pointed out to me that “if you spend...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 545–556.
Published: 01 September 2002
...) remarks on Paris of the Sec- ond Empire, where commodity-saturated customers displayed the intoxicated charm of drug addicts. As with addicts, “commodities derive the same effect from the crowd that surges around and intoxi- cates them. The concentration of customers which makes the market, which...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 563–592.
Published: 01 September 2016
... . Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Schüll Natasha Dow . 2016 . “ Tracking .” In Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense , edited by Jones Caroline Mather David Uchill Rebecca , 195 – 203 . Cambridge, MA...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 339–364.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of individual tweets, status updates, and other forms of everyday online communication to refine their market prediction algorithms and in turn profit enormously from the digital cloud. References Adler Jerry . 2012 . “ Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading .” Wired...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 35–48.
Published: 01 January 1994
...-year-old convict in some penitentiary, or insane asylum” (287). The first part of fie Autobiography is carefully crafted to lead up to Detroit Red‘s transition from unemployed hick to hustler to hardened criminal and drug addict. Even...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
... situations in which individuals are psychologically present but physically absent, or physically present but psychologically absent. In addition to experiences like addiction, dementia, and kidnapping, ambiguous loss is often used to describe adoptees’ tenuous ties to birth kin. Ambiguous loss is a way...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2005
...-selling exposé Consumer Unconscious of subliminal advertising and propaganda techniques, The Hidden Persuaders (1957), but whose name has since faded from the textbooks of market research and advertising lore without (to my knowledge) ever being mentioned in histories of psychoanalysis. Addictive...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 431–448.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to the enjoyment and the satisfaction of appetites. If the enjoyment of bhang (marijuana) had become addictive, then merely “getting rid of the retailer,” he argued, would not alter the situation, since another retailer could assume that role...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 41–64.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of their power?' ON MELODRAMA AND THEORY None of these effects could have been achieved without the riveting character of the Dubin melodrama itself. According to numerous reports, addicts within viewing range abandoned their regular television soaps for the "Real Life Soap Opera"22 of the Dubin...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 1996
... expeditions against addicts, drunks, and thieves. Since 1988, Le SoZeiZ daily relates the occasionally 28. Le Soleil, May 1990, 18. fatal incidents between “youth gangs” and “thieves or delinquents .” In certain 235 parts of Dakar’s working-class suburb...