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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 113–142.
Published: 01 January 2018
... is nowadays called a knowledge economy. This concept is often framed as having no history of its own: it is presented as supplanting other economies (agricultural, industrial, service) and therefore as in itself unprecedented, because it is new. Instead, I argue that present-day valorizations of creativity...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 375–383.
Published: 01 May 2020
... undergraduates. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex feminism pedagogy history of knowledge I remember many of the books I encountered during my high school years, which spanned the late 1970s and early 1980s. I read Joan Didion’s The White Album...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 121–156.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ann Laura Stoler If the Republic and Empire are now difficult to view as mutually exclusive categories in contemporary France, few scholars have sought to address the conventions of knowledge production that have made France's own history of a racialized polity so rarely a subject for the French...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2009
... around the interplay of reason and affect. The history and contemporary use of the U.S. Treasury yield curve—a key economic indicator—point to this intractable problem of modern knowledge more generally. The devices that should create grounds for calculating future profits also open avenues of affect...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 53–78.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jess Bier Maps are considered to be an ultimate expression of modernity. Empirical cartography plays a central role in daily governance, and it also has a long history of furthering displacement and erasure. In this article I argue that the landscapes of historic British colonialism and the ongoing...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Bharat Jayram Venkat What is a cure and how do we know it? This essay examines the history of tuberculosis research to trace how ideas of cure shifted from Robert Koch’s development of tuberculin in late nineteenth-century Berlin to the earliest randomized studies of the efficacy of antibiotics...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... significant question of the conventions of knowledge production that have made the history of a racialized polity marginal to academic inquiry. Mbembe objects to the very characterization — ­belated or not — ­of postco...
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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...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 143–168.
Published: 01 January 2008
... administrators often believed that histori- cal knowledge provided one of the best ways of “knowing” India. For instance, James Grant Duff, the pioneer of modern Maratha history, acknowledged his per- sonal lack of preparation for historical...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
... for the Public University , edited by Holmwood John , 27 – 41 . London : Bloomsbury . Burke Peter . 2017 . Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000 . Walthom, MA : Brandeis University Press . Butler Judith Ertür Başak . 2017 . “ In Turkey, Academics Asking...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 463–475.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Michel . 1998 . A History of Molecular Biology . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . 29 Morgan Mary . 2010 . Introduction to How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge , edited by Howlett Peter Morgan Mary . Cambridge : Cambridge University...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 529–564.
Published: 01 May 2000
... by observation of “man’s” place in nature (geography) and the “inner knowledge” of subjectivities (anthropology). Geography organizes knowl- edge synthetically through the ordering of space, as opposed to history, which pro- vides a narration in time...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of the knowledge problem and the foundation of neoliberalism (which was originally spelled neo- liberalism to make clear the distinction from liberalism). One excellent summary from the perspective of economic history is Foley 2005. From the standpoint of intel- lectual history, see Hull 2006. For a broad...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2014
... anonymous contributors would together create 23 million articles in 285 languages? No cloister in history could compete with the accomplishment of this virtual scriptorium. Did you know, Jimmy? Did you know that you would be creating a knowledge site that would be visited by over 365 million readers...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 1993
... knowledge that the contribution of Indian Marxists to the mode of production debate or to the understanding of class differentiation in agriculture or to economic history in general has been of the highest order. At the same time, as far as understanding literary practices or cultural formations...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of history making, espe- cially that regarding the contemporary era, has been transformed, changing not only the pasts that are being related but the way in which many people relate to those pasts. The shift in the nature of historical knowledge and historical sen- sibility owes much to both popular...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 477–493.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., “always already a dialectics of scientificity and ideologization, or better even, of ideologization and of de-ideologization of the concept which is constitutive of knowledge” (ibid.: 69). To say it in the words of Canguilhem, once more: “Wishing to do the history of truth alone makes one do...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 January 2000
...- ing of some kinds of fiction and the work of the armed forces must demonstrate their foundation in research in order to command serious public attention or funds. To write the history of this huge transformation of our fundamental proto- cols about the production of reliable new knowledge...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 167–175.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., which claimed to reexamine French society and French history through a postcolonial lens, a lens that displaces the Western center and observes from the margins according to a strategy similar to that of Jacques Der- rida with respect...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 541–561.
Published: 01 September 2016
... facilitate flows that are actually quite different and reliant on the specialization of knowledge and actually the local culture and dynamics and history. And so, to me, that was actually one of the most interesting things in returning to it, which is because now people ask, “Is this a global city...