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Toward a Critique of Consumer Imperialism
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 589–591.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Paul Gilroy © 2002 by Paul Gilroy 2002 Paul Gilroy is a professor of sociology and African American studies at Yale University. He is the author of Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (2000). Toward a Critique...
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Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 351–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
...: The management of contemporary society . London:Zed Books. ———. 1998 . Spectres of capitalism: A critique of current intellectual fashions . New York: Monthly Review Press. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996 . Modernity at large:Cultural dimensions of globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press...
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A Bookmobile Critique of Institutions, Infrastructure, and Precarious Mobility
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., practices, and memories. Contexts of economic and political precarity both produce the motivation for sponsoring bookmobiles and sharpen the contours of relationships between institutions, infrastructure, people, and texts. A critique of bookmobiles opens up two avenues of theoretical implications: first...
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Is Critique Secular? A Symposium at UC Berkeley
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 447–452.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Saba Mahmood This short essay calls for an examination of the assumption that critique is necessarily secular and of the necessary disciplines of subjectivity and practices of rumination and interpretation entailed in this assumption. Duke University Press 2008 Is Critique...
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Beyond Image and Reality: Critique and Resistance in the Age of Spectacle
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 539–549.
Published: 01 September 2008
...David Campbell Engaging RETORT's Afflicted Powers , this critique asks how far RETORT takes Guy Debord's thinking, what the political implications of their use of Debord are vis-à-vis some of the geopolitical issues they raise (specifically, with regard to U.S. security policy and the Balkans...
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Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282.
Published: 01 May 2018
... possibilities of cure, ones in which we are left without tidy endings. The task, then, of a critique of curative reason is to clarify these limits, precisely so that we are able to imagine cure otherwise. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 antibiotics bacteriology cure India tuberculosis...
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Critique of Popular Culture
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 321–344.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Partha Chatterjee Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 popular culture, national address
Critique of Popular Culture
Partha Chatterjee
In 1992, at a conference to mark a decade of cultural...
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Reason, Tradition, and Critique: Mendelsohns Essay on Enlightenment
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 201–212.
Published: 01 January 1993
... Mendelsohn und die europdische Aufklärung . Hamburg: Meiner. Kant , Immanuel . 1970 . Kunt's Political Writings. Edited by H. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kant , Immanuel . 1990 . Critique of Pure Reason . Translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn...
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Marxism, Location Politics, and the Possibility of Critique
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 1993
...: Norton. Spivak , Gayatri . 1989 . “Who Claims Alterity?” In Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani, eds., Remaking History , Seattle: Bay Press. Spivak , Gayatri . 1989–90 . “Woman in Difference: Mahasweta Devi's ‘Douloti the Bountiful.’” Cultural Critique ( Winter ): 105 -28...
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Subtitling Islam: Translation, Mediation, Critique
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
... representations of Islam and internal interpretations of divine intent. Far from being just exercises in interlingual equivalence, subtitling is a form of moral critique motivated by both postcolonial and theological imperatives. These acts of translation, and their internal debate at Iqraa, exceed the familiar...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 147–152.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Moradi counters with a call to “repatriate these [artworks] . . . to their original homes” (259). We hear Moradi's call to move beyond the legal framework of provenance and toward paradigms that center full participation. Critical examination and critique are generative modes for sustaining many...
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Analog Critique; or, Isn't Money Queer?
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Public Culture 11714180.
Published: 19 March 2025
... necessary or constitutive. Contra nominalism, MotL insists that mediation is primary and generative, teeming with diverse social and aesthetic potentials. The author calls their approach to mediation analog critique , after an understudied tradition in medieval thought concerning the “amphibolus...
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Democracy’s Future: What’s Left?
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 311–314.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Gerald Frug The loss of faith in democracy is fueled by critiques from both the Left and the Right. This manifesto briefly describes and responds to these two critiques. 2013 democracy and citizenship: MANIFESTO
Democracy’s Future...
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Provincializing France?
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Achille Mbembe In the rest of the world, the “postcolonial turn” in the social sciences and humanities took place nearly a quarter century ago. Since then, the method or style of critique associated with that movement has influenced myriad political, epistemological, institutional, and disciplinary...
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The Blocked Gaze: A User's Guide to Photographing the Separation Barrier-Wall
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Meir Wigoder Meir Wigoder's account of photographing the Separation-Wall, in Israel-Palestine, over a period of three years, offers a critique of the very vigilant and testimonial activity of taking on such projects: Is it possible to de-materialize a wall through a political aesthetic activity...
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An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj : Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
Published: 01 May 2011
... had given to the terrorists. For Gandhi, the Japanese example led in a militaristic and Westernizing direction. To this he counterposed his own model of peaceful resistance and idealized village life. Gandhi's critique of modernity needs to be understood within the context of this project, which...
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Patience, Inwardness, and Self-Knowledge in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 417–429.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Uday S. Mehta This essay is on why patience as a concept is central to understanding Gandhi's critique of modernity and his conception of the self. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 I am very grateful to Ritu Birla, Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila, Aishwary Kumar, and Achille...
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Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (1949; trans. 1958)
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 385–396.
Published: 01 May 2020
... throughout the twentieth century, including his wish to move away from his Romanian roots and far-right political associations. Patterns became an Undead text when Eliade’s critics argued that the work was part of a larger pattern of ahistorical, acontextual analysis. This critique was particularly trenchant...
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Detranscendentalizing the Secular
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and dialectical critique of the metaphysics of both secularism and antisecularism. Duke University Press 2008 Exchange
Detranscendentalizing the Secular
Stathis Gourgouris
How one...
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Pleasures of the Polemic
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 561–571.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Gearóid Ó Tuathail This review critiques Afflicted Powers on three fronts: a flawed conception of politics as spectacle, an overly functionalist account of the Iraq war, and base determinism in its reasoning about American foreign policy. Duke University Press 2008...
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