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Journal Article
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 707–720.
Published: 01 September 2000
... in
plastic attitudes,
nude and veiled.
What is perhaps paradoxical about the censorship of eroticism in Senegal is
that the body is erotically valued in African societies on the condition that it is
not naked...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 January 2006
... a tireless conversa-
tion partner about the erotic. Bradin Cormack has been a tireless interlocutor about Shakespeare and
the untimely character of queer visuality. Claudio Lomnitz urged me to bring out the ethical more
explicitly, and Dilip P. Gaonkar gave me excellent editorial advice about how to do...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 323–341.
Published: 01 May 2019
... at the time and continues to be one of the most significant political songs on the island. In this period when national expectations of sexual practices and erotic morality were being redefined, it is not surprising that Jamaica also witnessed a thriving social scene oriented toward subjects of same-sex...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 559–578.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., such as Casement’s role in modern Irish folklore and the
provocative questions raised by the constellation of Casement’s political, human-
itarian, and erotic writings.4
In terms of his own writings, the biographical focus on Casement’s character
has tended to eclipse his global ethical project by reducing...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 333–337.
Published: 01 May 1993
...-catching visual motif, I
have never seen nor heard nor read in any book anything remotely resembling
the high-handed and flagrant way in which this “master” flaunts the details of his
sex life. Even Ximen Qing, the protagonist of the erotic...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 1993
...;
Public Culture women are not, any more than men are, mere eroticized bodies. So
there is something fundamentally awry in a system of imageries which
overvalorizes, when it comes to describing women, the zones of the
erotic. [150...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2008
... infection. It cites “Biblical Principles” to prevent
24. Linda Singer, Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic (New York:
Routledge, 1993), 40. The text was written in 1990, shortly before Singer’s death, and posthumously...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 445–446.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Books Received
Allen, Jafari S. 2011. ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Anatol, Giselle Liza, ed. 2011. Bringing Light to “Twilight”: Perspectives...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 255–276.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., what Jones hides is “the closet of imagining a homo-
sexual secret.”57 Lest we forget, John Jones has no erotic life. In queer theory,
53. Timothy Beal, The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther (New York:
Routledge, 1997), 123.
54. Beal, Book of Hiding, 123.
55...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of citizen-subject, a type of
what Georges Bataille called the “sovereign spender”;3 when the market research
and advertising industries, falling under the spell of Freud’s “economics of the
libido,” set about eroticizing commodities...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 499–506.
Published: 01 September 2004
... is considered
untouchable. In fact, there are no quick buyers of such cars within the
township.
AM: The end of apartheid seems to have facilitated the emergence of new
sites of erotic performance. What are the most...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 407–415.
Published: 01 May 1999
... Anxiety: Photography, New Technologies, and Sub-
jectivity. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Kincaid, James R. 1998. Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Kincheloe, Joe L. et al., eds. 1998. White Reign: Deploying Whiteness...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 191–193.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., Law, Language. Minneapo-
lis: University of Minnesota Press.
Shankar, Subramanian. 2012. Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Transla-
tion, and the Vernacular. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sheller, Mimi. 2012. Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean
Freedom...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 407–410.
Published: 01 May 1994
...
on the birth of the erotic novel in sixteenth-century China.
3. Taylor, Janelle S. 1993. “Non-Sense in Context: Xu Bing’s Art and Its Publics.”Public Culture
5(2): 324. ...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 428–430.
Published: 01 September 1999
....
A mostly nude or half-dressed body holds the center of several of the images.
Are these photographs meant to be suggestive, playfully erotic? Or just casual
snapshots for more or less intimate acquaintances? Are they attempts to reveal...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 63–66.
Published: 01 January 1992
... not of a division
between rulers and ruled, says Mbembe, but by a promiscuous, “convivial
tension,” between the command and its targets. The command has an erotic
surplus. Is this the public secret that most everyone knows but none dare
speak, this “simulacrum” which keeps the leaky ship of State afloat...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 1999
... of the phantasm and its powers, which I will explore through
the theme of the divine libido, inherently presupposes that there is no religious
act that is not at the same time, in some respect, also an erotic-sexual act.2 Like...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
... chasing, and gift giving to flourish. These communities developed around the volitional practices of unprotected sex generally, and the eroticization of exchanging HIV+ fluids specifically. I present these erotic cultures, collated hereafter as barebacking , as a new heuristic, an unlikely paradigm...
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Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 481–484.
Published: 01 May 2011
...
Latin America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Driscoll, Mark. 2010. Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead,
and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895 – 1945. Durham, N.C.: Duke Uni-
versity Press...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 430–433.
Published: 01 September 1999
... the potential erotics of the naked
body or to cause regret over its absence. Most of the time, the fact of naked-
ness dissolves into the sociality of relaxation.
So, at first glance, Tabata is just a man taking a bath; indeed, a man actively
enjoying his bath. Then the questions arise: Why the odd camera...
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