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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Sharon Marcus Reference Gabler Neal . 1994 . Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity . New York : Knopf . Finally, where there are publics, there are politics. In the decades following World War II, scholars and pundits took democracy and Marxism...
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Bodies of Digital Celebrity
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 185–192.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Sharrona Pearl; Dana Polan This afterword traces how the varied essays in this issue offer new theorizations of celebrity, extend the analysis of celebrity to new channels for its dissemination, and expand on the very kinds of personalities who are—or who in the electronic age can suddenly become...
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Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramović
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 21–52.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Sharon Marcus How have social media changed celebrity and fandom? Using the case study of Marina Abramović, whose 2010 live performance at the Museum of Modern Art catapulted her into celebrity, “Celebrity 2.0” presents four theses about celebrity in order to identify which features of modern...
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Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 53–84.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Fred Turner; Christine Larson This article identifies a mode of intellectual influence and popular celebrity that has emerged alongside American computer science and collaborative engineering: “network celebrity.” By tracking the tactics and impact of three key intellectual entrepreneurs — Norbert...
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Empty Orchestra: The Karaoke Standard and Pop Celebrity
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 85–108.
Published: 01 January 2015
... for the length of the song, the power that comes with commanding the stage as a star. And yet, this essay argues, instead of verifying the wide chasm between celebrity and mere imitation, the karaoke standard reminds us of how narrow the gap actually is between amateur recreation and pop prowess. This essay...
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Reality Celebrity: Branded Affect and the Emotion Economy
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 109–135.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Laura Grindstaff; Susan Murray More than any other form of media, reality television has reignited interest in celebrity discourse because of the genre’s incorporation of ordinary people and the conflation of ordinariness with raw, real emotion. This article argues that reality TV is part...
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The Politics of Revolutionary Celebrity in the Contemporary Arab World
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 161–183.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Marwan M. Kraidy This essay grapples with Arab celebrity as an overtly political, inherently transnational phenomenon and explores how revolutionary celebrity may expand our understanding of celebrity writ large. Through the prism of a media battle between the singer Assala and the Assad regime...
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Killers: Orcas and Their Followers
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 287–309.
Published: 01 May 2017
... captivity and prompting major changes to the North American orca-display industry, as represented by corporate giants such as SeaWorld. Orcas are now more likely to be followed online than watched either in captivity or in the wild, with some individual orcas becoming celebrity targets for activist...
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Profiling “Money”
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 7–19.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Carlo Rotella Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s problem was how to force his way against the grain of history into big- time celebrity in an era when being the best boxer in the world no longer automatically qualified him for the A- list. My problem was how to write a magazine profile about a subject who...
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Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 137–160.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Alice E. Marwick The popular photo-sharing app Instagram has created a new breed of celebrities: the Instafamous. This essay examines the phenomenon—from Singaporean socialites showing off shoe collections to high school sophomores with ten thousand followers—and its relationship to celebrity...
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“We Are Sensemakers”: The (Anti-)politics of Smart City Co-creation
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 539–562.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Dorien Zandbergen This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US...
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Never Having Been Racist: Explaining the Blackness of Blackface in the Netherlands
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 509–526.
Published: 01 September 2018
... meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal . The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the traditional celebration in the face of mounting antiracist critique by refabricating truths that not only...
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The Cartography of National Humiliation and the Emergence of China's Geobody
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 141–173.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and the conventions of Chinese cartography. These maps do much more than celebrate the extent of Chinese sovereignty; they also mourn the loss of national territories through a cartography of national humiliation. The goal of this essay is to shift our attention from the diplomatic issues of international borders...
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Dark Ages and Bright Futures: Youth, Disability, and Time in Kashmir
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 539–565.
Published: 01 September 2020
... two strands of disability studies: liberal approaches that emphasize the celebration of disability and biopolitical critiques that foreground the violent production of debilitation, to consider how Kashmiri visual production suggests a vision of crip futures for those now living with disabilities...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 367–378.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Christo Sims; Akshita Sivakumar Abstract “Sustainability” is an increasingly fashionable design criterion for celebrity corporate architects, their clients, and the governmental bodies that regulate urban development. Yet determining if and how a building is actually sustainable remains...
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Prospecting a Socialist Oil Field Extraction as Geotechnical Mediation
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Public Culture 11767218.
Published: 19 March 2025
.... To understand oil drilling as eventful mediation, a few anecdotes are first recounted to reenact Maoist contradiction as geotechnical contradiction—that is, conduct celebrated as embodying the Maoist spirit is revealed to be a result of first-order geotechnical mediation. The article then examines prospecting...
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Anything but the People
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 265–269.
Published: 01 May 2006
...) negotiations, among unknown parties with undisclosed private agen-
das, ended up being trumpeted as a “national agreement.” The announcement was
made by an assorted collection of three hundred celebrities — football players,
movie stars, pop singers, writers, Catholic bishops — who were led by the rich...
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Good Day Columbus: Silences, Power and Public History (1492–1892)
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 1990
..., or sanction the public
meanings attached to historical events deemed worthy of mass celebration.
As rituals that package history for public consumption, commemorations
play the numbers game to make the past appear both more real and more
elementary.
Numbers matter at the end point...
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949; trans. 1953)
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 375–383.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... It has been at the center of at least five conferences over three decades, including a 2008 colloquium held in Paris to celebrate the centenary of Beauvoir’s birth. The program for a conference held in Paris in 1999 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Second Sex ’s publication noted...
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