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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of colonial fetishism and settler disavowal. It demonstrates how these expressions of shock are not, as they might appear, authentic responses to genuinely unknown events but rather are part of a system of discourses that conceal the violence of settler colonialism by erasing its continuities, displacing its...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 479–496.
Published: 01 September 2008
... development that aligns Qatar with the West. The contradictions ultimately prove too much for a typeface—and even for the nation—to sustain. Ultimately, what is branded is not a nation but a marketing-driven entity circulating amid flows of labor, capital, and image—a nation fetishized, a nation...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 1992
... (a) daily rituals ratify the commande- men? as a fetish and (b) the subject is produced as homo Zudens. Implicit here is the capacity of the subject, through reworking the simulative strategy that the state incites and compels, to, as Mbembe puts it, “travesty the metaphor meant to glorify...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 January 2011
... postcolonial stories, the story of racial France is a story of commodity fetishism. It is suffused with desire: desire for things (objects, ideas, currencies) and places — ­above all, places. In the media — ­in news and film reportage, magazine specials, Hollywood blockbusters, and ad campaigns of non...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 135–152.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of combination.” The interaction between time and indirection allows us to arrange rhetorical devices from grammatical analogy to apostrophe. The rhetoric of temporality through grammatical analogy creates the temporal dialectic at the heart of capitalism: relative surplus value. The fetish “translates...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 573–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... draft. Public Culture 20:3  d o i 10.1215/08992363-2008-015 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 573 Public Culture work through these concepts, from Marx’s figures of the commodity fetish and the camera obscura of ideology, to Walter...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 349–360.
Published: 01 May 2002
... pictured objects can reach out and grab you; its very stillness can signify the capacity for elemental historical creation (Berger 1984; Seremetakis 1994; Stewart 2000a). The image becomes a fetish when it promises to house the enervated senses...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 191–199.
Published: 01 January 2011
... contribution to the field has not been to question “the tendency towards the fetishization and the conflation of the notions of ‘resistance’ and the subaltern (subalternit since this had been done early on in the field by Spivak herself and also...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 93–110.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and dynamic domination of capital has become fetishized on the global level as that of the United States, or, in some variants, as that of the United States and Israel. It goes without saying that the dis­ astrous, imperial, and imperious...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 599–618.
Published: 01 September 2009
... — their force as a sensuous presence or as a metaphysical presence, the magic by which objects become values, fetishes, idols, and totems.”2 The thing contains within it magic and mystery, the stuff dreams are made of. Marketers and their corporate employers seem to understand, or at least intuit...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 113–122.
Published: 01 January 1992
... by inducing and cultivating a propensity among social agents to “prosternate before fetishes,” whether the great “chiefs,” leaders, or even institutions. The other apt metaphor is theatrical: what we witness on a daily basis is a vast rnise-en-sct?ne,or staging, of a comedy of manners reproducing...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 63–66.
Published: 01 January 1992
...) lie de Sade, Nietzsche, and1 Mauss realigned - the gift as the sign of excess and spending, and a singular fascination with transgres- sion of the taboo. The subject here is first and foremost th.at wondrous fetish, power. We want it and we are rightly scared by it, in eqyal, mighty...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the relationships between religion, media, and materiality as mutually constitutive processes. Dutch anthropologists have been at the center of these developments: Patricia Spyer’s (1998) work on iconicity in Indonesia, Peter Pels (1998) on the complexities of African fetishism, Birgit Meyer (1998...
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Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 103–106.
Published: 01 May 1989
.... Bordwell, David. Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Browne, Ray (edObjects of Special Devotion: Fetishes and Fetishism in Popular Cul- ture, Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1982. Buruma, Ian. "Humor in Japanese Cinema," East-West Film Journal...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... Here I begin with Marx's famous (and often mined) view of the fetishism of the commodity and suggest that this fetishism has been replaced in the world at large (now seeing the world as one, large, interac- 16 Public Culture tive system, composed of many...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 441–466.
Published: 01 September 1996
.... Corbey , Raymond . 1993 . “Ethnographic Showcases, 1870–1930.” Cultural Anthropology 8 ( 3 ): 338 -369. Coronil , Fernando , 1987 . “The Black El Dorado: Money Fetishism, Democracy, and Capitalism in Venezuela.” Ph.D dissertation, University of Chicago. Coronil , Fernando . 1988...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 487–505.
Published: 01 September 2010
... critical frame, albeit with a femi- nist twist. The flag/fetish of the EU, the Figure 6  Set up #1/Vienna (25Peaces). commodity fetish, and the fetishization of Image: Tanja Ostojic´ women’s bodies...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 545–556.
Published: 01 September 2002
...- 547 Public Culture ing for a socialist utopia was therefore perversely connected to a fetishism of western material culture. The sudden possibility of unification in 1989 and 1990 held the incredible promise of instantiating these temporal and spatial...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 1997
... of Massachusetts Press, 1988 . Taussig , Michael . “Malefacium: State Fetishism.” In Fetishism as Cultural Discourse , ed. E. Apter and W. Pietz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993 . Turner , Patricia . I Heard It through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. Berkeley: University...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): vii–xi.
Published: 01 January 1993
... emancipatory politics gets occluded by an irresponsible romance with rootless migrant ideolo- gies and fetishized national fantasies. Insofar as In Theory has elicited heated responses, these appear to have much to do with Ahmad‘s long quotation from...