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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 January 2018
... scales, with the experience of captors and captives enabling not only an ethics of witnessing but also a politics of escape. Again, this “escape” is directed not toward neoliberal freedom but toward imagining forms of life and socialities that emerge in the aftermath of captivity and also, importantly...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 461–482.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Paul Frosh Duke University Press 2007 Barabash, C. 2002 . To shut oneself in at home or to escape outside. Ha'aretz , April 9 . Billig, M. 1995 . Banal nationalism . London: Sage. Blumler, J., and E. Katz, eds. 1974 . The uses of mass communications: Current perspectives...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 425–432.
Published: 01 September 2010
... lines of escape are not that different from the linguistic ones. Three salient features distinguish minor literature from any other form of lit- eral expression. Because it is constructed not from a minor language but within...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 347–363.
Published: 01 May 1999
... Press, 1991), 104. 349 Public Culture to be fascinated by or escapes the Sirens. Myth itself is defined by repetition, by events happening again and again without change. However, Homer’s poem...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
... built his empire. El Chapo has appeared prominently in the news since January 2016, when he was recaptured after escaping from a high-security prison in 2015, for the second time in his career. 5 The official story of El Chapo’s 2015 escape has been remarkably consistent since it was first...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 419–423.
Published: 01 May 1994
... as form only, our attention is focused on it as pure form because the script is already familiar” (Loehr 1961: 148, emphasis added). By abandoning standardized, legitimate characters, Xu Bing has escaped what Loehr describes as the “secure fortress of established script forms” (Loehr 1961...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
Published: 01 September 1996
... and environmental upheavals were accompanied by romantic longings for nature as a source of inspiration, escape, and belonging, whether it was in transcendental- ist philosophy, in the literary glorification of the American frontier, or in oriental- ist...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 369–397.
Published: 01 May 2010
...- ments are sites of escape and revelation, where the Tony Leung character finally assumes his true identity and reunites with his paternal supervisor, or confronts the mole and his doppelgänger, or sits still for a moment of respite in an otherwise...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
... initiatives, some of the very organizations established to help German scholars during the Third Reich help scholars fleeing other countries. In an ironic twist of history, while German and Jewish scholars escaping the Third Reich left in desperation for new intellectual homes in places like the United States...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 348–359.
Published: 01 May 2006
... can spend time outdoors and escape the pressures of daily life (see figs. 3 and 4...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as superficial and unsubstantial, they are indicative of efforts to create connection, conversation, and community under the inescapable terms of today’s hypermediated realities. Rather than an alternative to or escape from real world connections between human bodies, #BlackLivesMatter helps to illumine how...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 445–451.
Published: 01 September 2006
... after day, month after month, year after year. Will he do something to escape this crushing state of affairs? It entirely depends on the price he must pay for transfor- mative action. If these costs are bearable, then quite certainly he will. To begin...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 January 1990
.... The challenge is this: the visual media-r some people who have used film-propose new ways of considering/thinking about our past. These 56 Public Culture ways are unsettling because they escape the confines of words and provide elements-visual, aural...
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Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 93–97.
Published: 01 May 1989
... Banlieues de L'lslum, Paris, 1987 Submitted by: David Szanton, Social Science Research Council There's No Escaping The News* Alexander Cockburn On the Media AP, UPI, Reuters and Agence France Presse dominate the news the way their colonial forebears once dominated...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 593–629.
Published: 01 September 1995
...-dweller of the inaccessibility and incoherence of urban ideals with which everyone is familiar and yet from which most are excluded. These spaces of transit are the areas where bands of youngsters, either escaping or excluded from their social or familial context, retire after midnight on pieces...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 263–292.
Published: 01 May 1994
... protection from exterior misfortunes, and an escape from death. Home, in this view, is a communality of kitschmen and kitschwomen. Yet what was a discourse of modernist counter-culture in the West, in Russia partly con- verged with the official postrevolutionary discourse as well as with the pre...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 497–530.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... Sindhunata treats these diversions in some detail (I Await, 82 – 85). 17. Using the Javanese image of the sieve of souls (saringan nyawa), Djokopekik claims the ability to escape mortal danger by slipping through even the tiniest holes in the sieve...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 511–537.
Published: 01 September 1996
... confines of the complaint, invariably crushing From Bobbitt to SCUM women in a discursive straight jacket: escape is desirable but seems impossible. For Berlant, however, the complaint is a genre which can be revitalized and can threaten a discursive order built upon male privilege. The combination...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 1999
... and its concupiscence to be mortified, does not itself escape the carnal. The experience of asceticism in fact shows that bodily pleasure and spiritual union are in no way incompatible. On the contrary, they support each other. The malady of lust...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to the very politics in which it apparently plays no part. Unlike women or slaves, whose politics is defined by the struggle to escape their status, children depend on and even emphasize their lack of voice to become public figures. It is because children have no political status or voice in the present...