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in The Nature of the Image: Olgyay and Olgyay’s Architectural-Climatic Diagrams in the 1950s
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 13 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Method of Climatic Interpretation in Housing.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Robert Geddes Papers. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 57–59.
Published: 01 January 1992
... of the postcolony - is bereft of
both logical and empirical grounding. How does one deal with the contin-
uous popular interpretation and critique of state power witnessed since at
least the beginning of the colonial era - interpretation and critique that does
not settle onto images and practices...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 631–654.
Published: 01 September 1995
... and State: Contesting
Interpretations of the
Ramayana
Paula Richman
A long-escalating conflict about a sacred place in the north Indian city of
Ayodhya reached a climax in 1992. For many Hindus, this site...
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Public Culture 11714141.
Published: 19 March 2025
... not only reject “elite” interpretations and reclaim the canon “for the masses.” They also marshal canonistic texts as masses , while enrolling them in autocratic schemes. In the process, they promote a strongman's reading praxis that limits the interpretive terrain in ways that echo archetypical fascist...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 433–455.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and citizenship eligibility and how it uses law to mold diverse intimacies to fit normative models of domesticity and binary sex/gender. By asking what social imaginaries and intimate relations are foreclosed as a consequence, the article interprets these proliferations of law and bureaucratic discretion as signs...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 221–243.
Published: 01 May 2018
... suggests. This environment creates a public culture that breeds antagonism between the sciences and humanities. After establishing these ideas, the authors work to separate epistemological postmodernism from metaphysical postmodernism, embracing the phenomenological and interpretative humility...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 483–508.
Published: 01 September 2018
... places such corporate pedagogies of the postracial human within a longer history of Christian mission. It is written as a proof for why cultural critics’ locutions of religion and the secular require greater precision, especially as they interpret regimes of race within contemporary capitalism...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2019
... assemblages engender networks of translation that compete for interpretive authority. I argue that translocal translation can be distinguished from hegemonic practices of transnational translation based on translators’ material and symbolic resources, epistemologies, and practices of commensuration. In doing...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 447–452.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Saba Mahmood This short essay calls for an examination of the assumption that critique is necessarily secular and of the necessary disciplines of subjectivity and practices of rumination and interpretation entailed in this assumption. Duke University Press 2008 Is Critique...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 425–432.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Irit Katz Feigis This essay offers an analysis of the architectural environment of the Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza, examined through a comparison of Deleuze and Guattari's “minor literature” interpreting Kafka's work. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 An early Hebrew...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 187–209.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Tess Lea; Paul Pholeros This essay describes the surreality of Aboriginal housing in Australia, where images reroute remedial concern from the literal conditions toward a pathologization of the indigenous householder. Using governmental data against governmental interpretation, the essay shows how...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 January 2011
... debates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and regions across the Southern Hemisphere (South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent, and South Africa). From its inception, postcolonial studies has been interpreted in extremely diverse ways; over time, it has spawned robust waves...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
... representations of Islam and internal interpretations of divine intent. Far from being just exercises in interlingual equivalence, subtitling is a form of moral critique motivated by both postcolonial and theological imperatives. These acts of translation, and their internal debate at Iqraa, exceed the familiar...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.
Published: 01 September 2022
... organized to confront dispossession, real-estate speculation, and the privatization of housing. Using Black feminist and queer of color intellectual frameworks as ciphers through which to interpret and properly attribute weight to the organization's activism, the essay argues that Moms for Housing not only...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and effect and to know how to act effectively, irony provides a useful interpretative tool. Irony allows actors to position themselves between competing values, and attend to contradictions, enabling them to imagine common cause and possible futures within a radically unsteady world. Second, irony generates...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
... was in some ways unexceptional, both in Sierra Leonean politics and in the postcolonial response to urban crime. And yet it marked a subtle shift in both Sierra Leonean electoral politics and in the way such vigilante justice in African cities is interpreted. Contrasting the ethnographic elements...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of individuals. I argue that this set of claims about the knowledge provided by the behavioral sciences is not substantiated in behavioral research. The formal theoretical frameworks of behavioral science come to be interpreted — via the imaginary of behavioral governing — as relating to human agents that power...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 223–232.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Cassim Shepard This essay traces the outlines of the incremental tradition in architecture and urban planning in order to argue for its resonance with an interpretive — as opposed to strictly interventionist — mode of urbanism that benefits from a revaluation of concepts including fragment, essence...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
...—approach to translation, emphasizing the intellectual gains (and risks) to be had from thinking of translation as an act of cultural interpretation rather than verbal substitution. 2016 Arabic literature Middle East translation Whether or not they really exist, untranslatables are good things...
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 39–51.
Published: 01 January 1988
... discourses about needs. The point is to shift our angle of vision on
the politics of needs. Usually, the politics of needs is understood to concern
the distribution of satisfactions. In my approach, by contrast, the focus is
the politics of need interpretation.
The reason for focusing on discourses...
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