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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Yeujin Wang Copyright © 1989-90 by Duke University Press 1989 Mixing Memory and Desire:
Red Sorghum
A Chinese Version of
Masculinity and Femininity
Yeujin Wang
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department
Harvard University
The film Red Sorghum (Dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2002
... society and politics. Re-Orienting Desire:
The Gay International and
the Arab World
Joseph Massad
ne of the more compelling issues to emerge out of the gay movement in the
OOlast two...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 209–229.
Published: 01 May 2024
... humanitarian desire. 5 In Mosul, journalism's narrative frame captured an immanent violence that could be judged legitimate or extreme; a suffering mostly shorn of political and historical context; a separation of innocence from guilt, victim from perpetrator. This narrative frame suits a reigning doxa...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 593–594.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Joseph Massad © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Joseph Massad is an assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. His article “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World” appeared in the spring 2002 issue of Public...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 May 2001
... (1997), Thelma & Louise (2000), and, with Lisa Cartwright, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (2001). PC 13.2-01 Sturken R 5/3/01 3:19 PM Page 161
Desiring the Weather:
El Niño, the Media...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 573–602.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Jennifer Wenzel This article reads three recent documentary films as commodity biographies in which the story of a commodity’s production functions less as defetishizing knowledge than as a new object of consumerist desire; such narratives tend to leave untouched the relations of inequality...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of traffic—from ideals of citizenship in automotive traffic, to neoliberal demands to economize time in industrial supply-chain provisioning, to efforts to establish sovereignty violently, as drug traffickers seem to—autonomous agency emerges as an object of desire, but one that is difficult to secure...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 393–408.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the structural arrangements that currently govern human life. In arguing that diversity is over, the essay seeks to grapple with the structural limits of our desires for an inclusive society in which foundational antiblackness continues to shape Canadian and more broadly North American regimes of power...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 323–341.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Matthew Chin In this article, the author complicates the current positioning of Jamaica within international discourses as exceptionally homophobic by focusing on the island in the 1970s as a site through which to understand how the struggle for sexual agency among subjects of same sex desire...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 465–490.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Alison Shonkwiler This essay examines the growing interest in home-based labor in light of the changing structures of conventional work. Neo-homesteading, particularly in its part-time and casual modes, reveals the conflicted middle-class desire to achieve freedom from the wage economy without...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
... this counterintuitive valorization of risk, the essay examines the barebacking and bug chasing subcultures that emerged during the late 1990s. These communities, too, sourced means of filiation, intimacy, and minoritized historicity from their identification with—and desire for—HIV. Thinking these movements together...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 537–562.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Rupali Gupte; Prasad Shetty Abstract This essay discusses cities as composites of small forces of energetic selves. Energetic self here is the dimension of the self that drives one to undertake activities connected to one's desires. These could include collecting strange objects, achieving mundane...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 4 Donkey-zebra, from Malkit Shoshan’s project “ZOO or the Letter Z, just after Zionism.” Shoshan (2012) imagines “a white donkey . . . being transformed by a beautiful Palestinian boy into a zebra. This in order to fulfill the desire of the Gazans for normality, which in this case means
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2005
... and addressing the consumer not as
homo oeconomicus—the rational, economically self-interested decision maker of
classical political economy and neoclassical economics—but as a subject driven
by unconscious sexual desire. It was a period...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., it was the West that was the first to
dream of and promise a giant China to come in the twenty-first century! Thus was
triggered a mighty desiring machine in mainland China, its effects felt especially
among the elite. The desiring machine, with all its power, was targeted on one
goal: to set the nation...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 May 2007
....
Good night.”
Many reviews of Rosetta call this catechistic quasi-prayer the film’s most heart-
breaking moment: for Rosetta, all the world of possible desires has been paired
down to a friend and a job, a state of attaining some bare minimum of social rec-
ognition. Moreover, this is an episode...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 1992
... of
fetishism was to claim, “I know, but still ,, . I know all the reasons not to
desire what I desire, but I desire it nonetheless, or I know that what I desire
is repellent, but I desire it nonetheless. And further, that it is precisely be-
cause it is unreasonable and repellent to desire what I desire...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 January 2009
...: they delineate an existential realm where human
desires are not optimally managed through bargaining and the interplay of self-
interested exchanges but are either met or humbled by the manifestation of disin-
3. See David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 January 1999
... little more than mere chimera of the ancient thing Fison
sought. They taunted him with glimpses of what he truly desired—a superseded
but still signifying ancient society shimmering there just beyond him and them,
settler time and emergent...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 239–264.
Published: 01 May 2004
...
of embodiment. Bodies are constructed differently in regimes of punishment and
discipline, so these bodies have different desires, or better still, these bodies func-
tion in different economies of desire. Slave narratives in the African American...
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