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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Farhan Samanani; Susannah Crockford; Daniel M. Knight; Craig Stensrud; Girish Daswani; Marc Tuters; Io Chaviara Abstract Contemporary politics seems to be saturated with irony. In the context of social movements, this creates a perplexing mix of sincerity and insincerity, in which ambivalence...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 153–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... definitive conclusions. The essays, one of which is collectively authored, draw explicitly on transnational circulations—of cryptocurrencies, community land trusts and activism, and mediatized forms of irony. The difficult relationship between law, circulation, and value-production in global capitalism...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 120–121.
Published: 01 May 1991
... bears down on
us, but with a certain aesthetic flair. One imagines Israeli generals congratu-
lating themselves on the fine irony of a linkage quite different from that de-
manded by Saddam Hussein: Palestinians dying at the hands of the leader to
whom their own leaders have offered tactical...
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 89–108.
Published: 01 January 1991
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stratification, and political terrorization.. Nonetheless, the profound irony
here is that only with such a historical given, namely, a politically illiberal
situation, will New Theory,a broad enough term for all the discursive for-
mations that are exogenous in their origins and obligatorily marginal, ac...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 409–440.
Published: 01 September 1996
... beyond mirrorings, juxtapositionings, and
even irony. The panels are also fugues in a more special sense: not just movements
organized around a theme or center, but centrifugal movements that go elsewhere.
Each panel - even the “Chinese” ones - represents a flight elsewhere, just...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 403–431.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of truth as contingent, multiple and eliding.
However, many of the visitors experienced the exhibit as promoting a particular
and a singular truth about Africa. For some visitors this perceived singular truth
conflicted with their own. The irony and ambiguity of the exhibit was simply
lost...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 2016
... . Marsden George M. 1980 . Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870–1925 . New York : Oxford University Press . McClay Wilfred M. 2002 . “ The Continuing Irony of American History .” First Things , February . www.firstthings.com...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 301–321.
Published: 01 May 2006
... also drive the faithful toward
an implicit acknowledgment that they live in a pluralist world. Such pluralism,
importantly, is achieved not through liberal practices of forbearance and tolerance
but rather through the recognition of difference within oneself. This is one of the
ironies...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 499.
Published: 01 May 2000
... client—one of the very
persons most likely to find a com-
fortable irony, eroticism, or pathos...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1997) 9 (3): 417–425.
Published: 01 September 1997
... with itself” to evaluate the whole Hong Kong affair. It is not
difficult to see that this dual vision of history belongs to a retreating colonizer.
The irony, however, is that Beijing’s nationalist historiography also has a bipartite
structure, only...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 529–555.
Published: 01 September 1995
...
and ironies that surround national identity-making in today’s postcolonial Pacific.
My thesis is that historical narratives of loyalty and liberation, mediated by the
memory practices of foreign veterans and militaries, here come to occupy the
fledgling terrain of national memory, pushing dissonant...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 May 2005
... 1969 essay “The Rhetoric of Temporality” returned to Benjamin’s “Alle-
gory and Trauerspiel” in order to present allegory not as history’s double but
rather as its rhetorical fantasy. For de Man, allegory is how history misreads itself.
Unlike irony (“the mode of the present allegory “exists...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 369–377.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of consciousness with unsettling ironies. Their enigmatic invocations disrupt me while I’m waiting for a traffic light, precisely the instant when I have to decide how to move on, or move past, or move away. Dwelling on such signs can be paralyzing. Posted on street corners or highway underpasses, production...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2024
...: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi .” China Quarterly , no. 248 ( November ): 29 – 51 . Stallybrass Peter , and White Allon . 1986 . The Politics and Poetics of Transgression . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Steinmuller Hans . 2011 . “ The State of Irony in China...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 55–64.
Published: 01 January 2003
... disci-
pline and affective release with irony, longing, obsession, surrender, insouciance,
devotion, self-aversion, physical ecstasy, and extraordinary passion. Graves and
Lipman use the photograph to capture accidental conjunctions...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 223–232.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the Ordi-
1. In a move pregnant with irony, Aravena has also developed a modern version of the Ayoreo
sitting rope for the high- end, multinational furniture company Vitra.
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nary (1998), is to decouple two key components...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 154–155.
Published: 01 January 1990
... been fond of referring to their national
resurgence with the words: taiyang sheng, dongfang hong (“the sun has risen, the East is
red The crowning irony of the students’ request to change the name to the Department
of Oriental Studies into Department of North African and Asian Studies, apart from...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 89–96.
Published: 01 January 2001
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de Salem; Ségou; and Vie scélérate—typically devote less space to the psycho-
logical ironies of racial disidentification, they too, within the scope of epic ambi-
tions, trace the fissuring of families within geographical and generational forma-
tions.5...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 597–605.
Published: 01 September 1994
...,
translation projects, art exhibits, and urban salons (shalong). This culminated
in the Tianamen Square demonstrations and repression of 1989. Among the ironies
of the aftermath is the turning of papers to tabloid tactics of gossip columns to
expand readership and income in a period of inflation...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 477–494.
Published: 01 September 2003
... (or exchange), the latter
assumes an unstable, highly situational medium of speech and interpretation (or
exchange) as constantly and reflexively reconfiguring meanings and functions (or
values).
This conflict of interpretations points to one of the telling ironies of Green-
span’s utterance. It makes...
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