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Published: 01 May 2021
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 205–211.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Allison Carruth; Robert P. Marzec This special issue of Public Culture explores forms of environmental image making and visualization in the context of the Anthropocene. The essays aim to spark dialogue about how visual technologies and media—from satellite imaging and military simulation...
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A Divided Conscience: The Lost Convictions of Human Rights
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Tobias Kelly The category of conscience has played a key role in the history of human rights. However, since a high point in the decades after the Second World War, much of the human rights movement appears to have become relatively less interested in the issue. Instead, claims of conscience have...
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Hijacked by Realism
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 219–227.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Beatriz Jaguaribe This essay discusses the impact of realist aesthetics as a “pedagogy of the gaze” that addresses the pressing issues of urban violence in Brazil. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 I thank Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar for suggesting the title of this essay...
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Bodies of Digital Celebrity
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 185–192.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Sharrona Pearl; Dana Polan This afterword traces how the varied essays in this issue offer new theorizations of celebrity, extend the analysis of celebrity to new channels for its dissemination, and expand on the very kinds of personalities who are—or who in the electronic age can suddenly become...
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The Aesthetics of Environmental Visualizations: More Than Information Ecstasy?
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 319–337.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Heather Houser Information visualizations (or “infovis”) have become a ubiquitous cultural form in the digital age. Environmental artists and activists increasingly trust in the ability of infovis to produce knowledge about environmental issues and to promote audience engagement. But does infovis...
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Drawing Lines, Enacting Migration: Visual Prostheses of Bordering Europe
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 27–51.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Rogier van Reekum; Willem Schinkel Migration cannot be readily seen. Yet the study of contemporary migration control and border management, particularly with respect to Europe, abounds in the use of ocular terminology, such as surveillance and monitoring . We approach these issues by asking how...
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“Wave Fronts of Calculation”: A Response to Achille Mbembe
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 35–40.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Erica Robles-Anderson Abstract This article is a response to Achille Mbembe's “Futures of Life and Futures of Reason,” which is featured in the same issue of Public Culture . The article builds on Mbembe's concept of “wave fronts of calculation” as a means of amplifying a language for political...
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Catastrophic Art
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Fazil Moradi Abstract This article is a transdisciplinary inquiry into catastrophic art—artworks whose worlds the empires destroyed and brutally deported to the imperial metropoles. At issue is the impossibility of seeing and speaking of catastrophic art, without at the same time speaking of both...
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Childhood Memories of Circus Children
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 261–275.
Published: 01 May 2021
... issues with this category. Childhood memories illuminate an individual's assessment of their own experience, regardless of whether it conforms to widespread normative expectations about childhood; it can also suggest biographical periodizations that are more relevant to a person's life than prevalent age...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 355–365.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and occupational health issues and the scientific expertise in the field of the regulation of chemicals. Downstream of these regulatory processes, the use of science‐based regulatory instruments implicitly steers regulatory policies in a direction that results in tolerance of certain risks (rendering them...
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The Bewitched City: Psychopolitics in the Wake of the Social
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Public Culture 11767257.
Published: 19 March 2025
... them as a manifestation of the impossibility of the social, one that issues from a broader historical and epistemological condition: the incapacitation of tradition. While focused on revolutionary Iran, this study bears on the impersonal circulation of violence and deathliness amid the contemporary...
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The Cartography of National Humiliation and the Emergence of China's Geobody
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 141–173.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and the conventions of Chinese cartography. These maps do much more than celebrate the extent of Chinese sovereignty; they also mourn the loss of national territories through a cartography of national humiliation. The goal of this essay is to shift our attention from the diplomatic issues of international borders...
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The Roots of the Darfur Conflict and the Chadian Civil War
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 429–436.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Roland Marchal This article takes issue with a number of key representations of the Darfur and Chad crises. It argues that the conflict in Darfur is to some extent the continuation of the civil war in Chad, not the opposite; the failure to acknowledge the regional dimensions of these two crises...
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Beyond Image and Reality: Critique and Resistance in the Age of Spectacle
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 539–549.
Published: 01 September 2008
...David Campbell Engaging RETORT's Afflicted Powers , this critique asks how far RETORT takes Guy Debord's thinking, what the political implications of their use of Debord are vis-à-vis some of the geopolitical issues they raise (specifically, with regard to U.S. security policy and the Balkans...
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The Vertiginous Power of Decisions: Working Through a Paradox About Forced Migration
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 139–160.
Published: 01 January 2016
... is that Asad is acutely aware of this paradox and that his awareness thereof issues in a distinctive mode of action that is profoundly future orientated and yet dispenses with calculations of probability. The article explores the phenomenology of this nonactuarial thinking, the internal conflicts it engenders...
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Violence Work and the Police Order
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 409–418.
Published: 01 September 2019
... inequalities in the global regimes of power does such an analytic obscure? This special issue of Public Culture leverages the strengths of an interdisciplinary conversation to examine the discourses and practices of policing as a concept. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This content is made...
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Lynn Hunt
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 559–577.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Vanessa R. Schwartz In this interview Lynn Hunt discusses why she studied the French Revolution, how she used images in her research, and why she cares about psychology. She also reflects on issues of affirmative action, intellectual style, and her recent retirement. 2014 Vanessa R. Schwartz...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Argentina, such as an increasing demand that is not matched by investment in supply, aging infrastructure, and lack of coordination between different programs. The article argues that these issues affect the city’s preparedness to confront the challenges of climate change and result in the failure...
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Saskia Sassen: Interviewed by Shamus Khan
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 541–561.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and in light of current issues, their conversation touches on topics such as how migration relates to political and economic processes, the continuously shifting landscape of global cities, and how complex systems change. 2016 capital cities globalization labor migration Shamus Khan (SK): I...
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