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Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand

Rosalind C. Morris
Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 457–475.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-457
Published: 01 May 2000
...” ( Social Text , 1998) and In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand (2000). Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency...
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Black Aesthetics, Black Value

Lewis R. Gordon
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 19–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189143
Published: 01 January 2018
...Lewis R. Gordon Though black aesthetic production has received much study, little attention has been paid to the challenge of constructing black aesthetics proper. In addition to articulating what aesthetics is as a field of inquiry, such a task also includes the problem of whether aesthetics has...
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Environmental Visualization in the Anthropocene: Technologies, Aesthetics, Ethics

Allison Carruth, Robert P. Marzec
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 205–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392030
Published: 01 May 2014
... change models to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) “Species Tracker,” environmental visualizations are political and politicized as much as aesthetic and aestheticized. Digital infrastructures (like the data centers that run the cloud and the global positioning systems [GPS] that generate high-resolution...
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The Aesthetics of Environmental Visualizations: More Than Information Ecstasy?

Heather Houser
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 319–337.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392084
Published: 01 May 2014
... elicit more than shock, admiration, and the pleasures of “infogasm”? Analyzing infovis through its aesthetic features, this essay raises the question of how the aesthetic form of any environmental artwork carries audiences from perception to involvement, arguably one of environmental criticism’s most...
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Aesthetics of Superfluity

Achille Mbembe
Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 373–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-373
Published: 01 September 2004
.... He is the author of On the Postcolony (2001) and The Political Life of Sovereignty (forthcoming). Aesthetics of Superfluity Achille Mbembe It is altogether impossible to live at all without...
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Du Bois, Politics, Aesthetics: An Introduction

Robert Gooding-Williams
Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 203–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-203
Published: 01 May 2005
...Robert Gooding-Williams Du Bois, Politics, Aesthetics: An Introduction Robert Gooding-Williams There is little evidence to suggest . . . that the methodology of formalism...
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Hindu Modern: Considering Gandhian Aesthetics

Vyjayanthi Rao
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 377–394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1161958
Published: 01 May 2011
...Vyjayanthi Rao This article analyzes the Gandhian legacy in contemporary Indian art practices, including photography, architecture, and film, and investigates the possibilities and impasses of a specifically Gandhian modern aesthetic practice. Situating a specific set of artistic projects...
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The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony

Achille Mbembe
Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-1
Published: 01 May 1992
... is that, as a specific trajectory of domination, the postcolony strikes precisely in its earthiness and its verbosity. Ih fact, the commnde- ment derives its “aesthetics” from its immoderate appetite and the immense pleasure that it encounters in plunging in ordure. The sodomite gesture readily goes hand...
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Aesthetics versus Ideology in National Symbolism: The Creation of the Emblem of Israel

Don Handelman, Lea Shamgar-Handelman
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 431–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-431
Published: 01 September 1993
...: University of California press. Dennys , Rodney . 1982 . Heraldry and the Heralds . London: Jonathan Cape. Dufrenne , Mikel . 1973 . The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Perception . Evanston, III.: Northwestern University press. Firth , Raymond . 1973 . Symbols: Public and Private...
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The Aesthetics of the Global Imagination: Reflections on World Music in the 1990s

Veit Erlmann
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 467–487.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-467
Published: 01 September 1996
... in the World: Globalization and Localization.” In Mike Featherstone, ed., Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity . London: Sage Publications, 311 -28. Frith , Simon . 1987 . “Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music.” In Richard Leppert and Susan McClary, eds., Music and Society...
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Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror

Allen Feldman
Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 24–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-24
Published: 01 January 1997
... the aesthetics of political violence into the center of a political anthropology concerned with war. Aestheticization is the civilizational heritage of all depictions of violence and all empowered discourses. There are counter- aesthetic positions...
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Aesthetics of Catastrophe

Aric Mayer
Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 177–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-022
Published: 01 May 2008
...Aric Mayer Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 doxa at large Aesthetics of Catastrophe Aric Mayer In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina formed...
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The Violence of the Real: A Conversation with Rogério Reis

Beatriz Jaguaribe
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 229–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-027
Published: 01 May 2009
...Beatriz Jaguaribe This interview investigates how the photographer Rogério Reis created his photographic installation Microwave as a response to the urban violence of the drug trade in Rio de Janeiro. It explores also how Reis decided to make this aesthetic option, how the relation between...
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Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

Joel Isaac
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 355–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090117
Published: 01 May 2020
...Joel Isaac Susanne Langer’s Philosophy in a New Key (1942) is the most famous book you’ve never heard of. It has had a remarkable career: a big seller on the mass paperback market of the post–World War II decades; a key text in musicology, aesthetics, religious studies, and anthropology; a founding...
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Electro- Dabke : Performing Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Borderless Humanity

Nadeem Karkabi
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 173–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189215
Published: 01 January 2018
... examines how the Palestinian electro- dabke bands Ministry of Dub-Key and 47Soul perform rooted authenticity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aesthetics to appeal stylistically to both local and foreign audiences. Whereas Palestinian cultural performance has focused in the past on heroic struggle...
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Hijacked by Realism

Beatriz Jaguaribe
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 219–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-026
Published: 01 May 2009
...Beatriz Jaguaribe This essay discusses the impact of realist aesthetics as a “pedagogy of the gaze” that addresses the pressing issues of urban violence in Brazil. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 I thank Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar for suggesting the title of this essay...
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Plasmatic Nature: Environmentalism and Animated Film

Ursula K. Heise
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 301–318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392075
Published: 01 May 2014
...Ursula K. Heise Animated film is one of the principal aesthetic forms through which modern societies engage with the agency of nonhumans and objects. Beyond their particular themes or characters, animated films rely as a matter of principle on setting objects in motion; this principle has close...
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Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Materiality and Agential Ambivalence in Sisi's Cairo

Maria Frederika Malmström
Public Culture 10202402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10202402
Published: 29 March 2023
... politically active Cairenes navigate suspicious spaces, bodies, and nonliving things in the cityscape and how materiality shapes and is shaped by the emotional-aesthetic responses of individuals and groups to the stimuli it provides. In this specific context, the distinct form of what I call agential...
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Governance Interface: The Index in Modi's India

Mila Samdub
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 473–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937382
Published: 01 September 2022
... arbitrarily rank administrative units and place them in a competitive relation with each other within Indian federalism. As technical device, aesthetic projection, and mediating interface, the index is a node in “maximum governance,” an emergent apparatus of governance that renders development as the site...
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Filtered Life: Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China

Matthew Kohrman
Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 161–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917164
Published: 01 May 2021
...Matthew Kohrman Abstract Air purification in Chinese contexts over the last half century has been generative for a way of being human, what the author calls “filtered life.” This is a materially, aesthetically, and even humorously mediated form of dwelling. In it, people confront ethics...
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