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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Lauren Berlant Duke University Press 2007 Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta Lauren Berlant Two nearly utopian moments mark the heart of the films...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 599–618.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., exchange value, and sign value need to be reconfigured. A new dimension of the object is emerging, one that is best understood as combining aura and affect. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 For his insightful contributions, I thank Ken Rufo. This article is part of a larger project...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Caitlin Zaloom Financial prediction provokes intense affect. For bond traders, hedge fund managers, and economic planners, both statistical reasoning and affective discomfort surround professional judgments about the future. This article argues that contemporary financial knowledge is organized...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 185–216.
Published: 01 January 2012
... with recovery, market logics used in recovery to build stock portfolios of recovery companies, the circulation of affect as a resource for profit, and the growth of nongovernmental and charity organizations that ended up doing the work that government contractors failed to do. Responding to growing cries...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 35–59.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., and practical failure. This article combines insights from recent affect theory and indigenous and non–North Atlantic societies in response to this epistemological and theoretical critique. It argues (1) that affect analyses can give a fuller account of the ways in which nonhuman others participate...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Christian Sorace In this essay, I argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affective sovereignty results from its ability to adapt confessional practices to fit its governing needs at different moments in history. I analyze what recent televised confessions of party cadres reveal about...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 109–135.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of an emerging “emotion economy” that generates unique forms of celebrity by producing and circulating heightened emotional performances as “branded affect.” A key signifier of what reality TV is and is becoming, branded affect underscores the commodification of emotion in the contemporary media landscape...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 143–171.
Published: 01 January 2018
... seen a massive expansion of the national security state, marks a continuity of Cold War emotion management and national security affect. Employing Michael Billig’s concepts of “hot” and “banal” nationalism, the article contends that the nationwide “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign forms...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363–384.
Published: 01 May 2017
... is it that materials become the grounds for politics? Focusing on the history of a road construction project in the Peruvian Amazon, the essay illustrates how politics becomes realized through engagements that entail the affective force of emergent materialities that break through or rupture a normalized understanding...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 101–126.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Mara Buchbinder; Stefan Timmermans Today, nearly every US baby is screened for more than fifty rare genetic disorders, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. This article explores the dramatic expansion of state-mandated newborn screening by analyzing affective enactments within public...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 49–71.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Maria Frederika Malmström Abstract This article explores the ambiguity of familiar materialities and the relationships between material and affective experiences. Those flows and interactions are crucial sites for interrogating social meanings, valences, and effects of suspicion. It explores how...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Angela Xiao Wu Abstract Much attention to affective computing has focused on its alleged ability to “tap into human affects,” a trope also foundational to broader theorizations about big‐data surveillance. What remains understudied and undertheorized is affective computing's social life, where...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 349–369.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of pregnant women, family members, and doctors about color and black‐and‐white, to political and intellectual histories of color in Cambodia and in anthropology, to Buddhist ontologies of pregnancy and life. Across this diverse terrain, the notion of the image‐affect conveys how images stimulate affective...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 135–152.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of temporality will answer the questions that Benedict Anderson raised almost forty years ago: How do the temporalities of capital and narration interact to create new social affects and emotions? What would a Marxist approach to a semiotic linguistics of affect and subjectivity look like? Indirection implies...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Valeria Procupez This article discusses the unprecedented heat waves affecting the city of Buenos Aires—between December 2013 and January 2014—and the extended power outages that ensued. It focuses on this particular extreme case to examine a broader spectrum of shortcomings regarding energy...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 329–356.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on the other—are deployed by different actors with conflicting views of the proper distribution and location of sovereign power. Foregrounding the role of fiscal practices in the forging of political obligation and affective bonds between citizens and the state, the essay reflects on the efficacy of el...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 357–384.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Cotten Seiler How will the car affect China, that once “immobile empire”? US media accounts put tremendous faith in automobility as a maker of liberal political subjects as China undergoes its postsocialist transformation. But is the type of freedom offered by automobilized modernity necessarily...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 237–263.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and affects that are articulating it. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I thank Arang Keshavarzian and Michelle Hartman for their suggestions, Carin McCormack for her editing, Faisal Devji for the encouragement, and Dilip Gaonkar, who with his perceptive comments invited me to go further...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Lisa Richaud; Ash Amin While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on migrant mental health. Exploring the affective and subjective dimensions of life lived...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 73–112.
Published: 01 January 2023
...-move of contradictory thrusts. To continue stoking the possibility of international intervention, activists reiterate demands while intensifying their affective content; conversely, they use anticipated failure of those appeals to “boomerang” them back to local publics—making the international...
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