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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 spirit of capitalism
Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations
on the Value of Life and Death...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 33–40.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Ako Nakano Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Death and History:
An Emperor's Funeral
Ako Nakano
The Imperial flag hoisted high in battles for the creation of a Japanese
empire in Asia shows a rising sun emanating its...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 47–65.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of this discussion relates to the way the question of
the “death of history” has been handled in certain strands in post-modernist
writing. Here I want to take a trajectory that cuts across certain positions the
Australian cultural critic Meaghan Moms traverses in her stimulating article
“Metamorphoses...
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Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 January 1996
...James Siegel Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago 1996 Electronic Mourning:
The Death of Frangois Mitterand
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n January 8, 1996, FranCois Mitterand died. His death had long been...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 551–560.
Published: 01 September 2008
... into the discussion. Duke University Press 2008 The Death Wish of Modernity
and the Politics of Mimesis
Cindi Katz
On February 15, 2003, just before the war in Iraq com-
menced in full, antiwar activists marched...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Karen Ann Faulk On January 18, 2015, Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment. His death, coming one day before he was due to appear in the National Congress to describe his recently announced formal denunciation of then president Cristina Fernández...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 209–229.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Isaac Blacksin Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with international war reporters, this article interrogates dominant meanings for warfare and for the civilian death that results. It takes as a case study the 2016 to 2017 battle for Mosul, Iraq. Lauded reportage from Mosul revealed...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the 235,000 murders created by the “war on drugs” since 2006 is that the deaths consist of “narcos killing each other off.” However, as a result of the profound interlocking of legal and illegal sectors, most forms of livelihood in the borderlands are potentially implicated in the drug economy. Therefore...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 85–112.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Townsend Middleton Assassinations are an unsettling feature of South Asian politics. Haunting the body politic in spectacular and spectral forms, these deaths have an uncanny way of transforming political life. This article turns attention to the afterlives of these killings in order to explore...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 133–162.
Published: 01 January 2020
...D. Asher Ghertner Extreme air pollution events have become a regular phenomenon in Delhi, triggering conjunctions of air pollution and death popularly referred to as airpocalypse. The city’s collective reckoning with bad air raises the question of how social justice is to be imagined when...
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Published: 01 January 2019
Figure 2 Image circulated on social media and by email in the days following Nisman’s death. The caption reads “Justice: As Argentines we deserve for the truth to be brought to light.”
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Published: 01 September 2021
figure 2 One side of the green cloth cover of the coffin reads, “Every soul shall taste death” (Qur'an 3:185). Photograph by the author with the permission of the family.
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 293–319.
Published: 01 May 2009
... with a sick or unstable body. As color always contains hidden shades that are wrapped up within personal biography, the imagination, and diverse existential circumstances, I argue that colors contained in these artworks can never be “pure,” for they are too contaminated by disease, death, emotion...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... to hydrate their communities. Such demonization is paralleled by legal crackdowns and the deliberate destruction of improvised water infrastructure. The essay uses the Mumbai case study to reveal the costs of marginalizing the majority urban poor in global megacities: in public health, death rates...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 269–274.
Published: 01 May 2011
... be defended in the most murderous of ways. It was only by disregarding and even throwing life away, Gandhi maintained, that it might be protected. The love of death, in other words, might guarantee life far more effectively, if only as an indirect and unintended consequence, than making an absolute value...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Diego Cagüeñas On September 11, 2001, at least two hundred people jumped to their deaths from the top stories of New York City’s World Trade Center. According to the New York Medical Examiner’s Office, they are not “jumpers” because they did not wake up with the intention of committing suicide...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 497–520.
Published: 01 September 2019
... military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)translatability in a series of encounters that take us into the heart of death-dealing and wartime...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., but that it stakes a claim for the ethical virtue of exposure and vulnerability. That these viral commonwealths apprehend not exactly Covid itself, but the risk of infection, as a figure for the historicity of Blackness under the necropolitics of medical apartheid and social death. In order to stage...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 191–215.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., and animalization. By defining the degrees of their relative humanity and animality, these rituals render life and death more or less worthy. I coin the term zoometrics to refer to the detailed calculations of biopolitical worthiness that occur within and along the animal-human divide. Such zoometric accounts...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
... as the “death of the social.” This essay explores the multiple and mutually exclusive uses of niceness, from its compensatory function that substitutes economic equality with the gestures of equality—a handshake, a smile—to its centrality for creating what Pierre Bourdieu called a social solidarity vision...
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