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Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters

Bregje F. van Eekelen
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 113–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189191
Published: 01 January 2018
.... These drives took place at a time when contentious labor relations and economic production were both subject to reorganization in the United States. Labor and management were cajoled to collaborate in labor-management committees, so as to participate in the industrial mobilization that, on the one hand...
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The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras

Melissa W. Wright
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 453–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-453
Published: 01 September 1999
... specific maquiladoras located in Ciudad Juárez. I specify the nationality of the managers in this text in order to demonstrate how a cultural explanation is wide- 460 degree that unskilled labor does. Of course, there is some variation; otherwise Dialectics...
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Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa's Age of AIDS

Rosalind C. Morris
Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-024
Published: 01 May 2008
... become a kind of labor, even in an economy that traffics in services and in futures, and that makes speculation itself a source of value through such instruments as hedges and derivatives. But this economy is not entirely reducible to something like disposability, though it is perhaps related...
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Tertiary Time: The Precariat’s Dilemma

Guy Standing
Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 5–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890432
Published: 01 January 2013
... and another is the fear of losing a job, inducing “presenteeism.” Again the problem is worst for those in the precariat, since their labor relations mean that they have no entitlement to holidays. They may have to give up a job if they wish...
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Worldy Discoures: Reflections on Pragmatic Utterances and on the Culture of Capital

Dan Rose
Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 109–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-109
Published: 01 January 1991
...- tain fundamental practices in order to remain viable: uses of currency, credit, pricing, labor and its division, investment, strategies whether implicit or explicit for managing operations, and all the rest. 14. Nations use national interests translated into law to make possi- ble...
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Object Lessons for the Media Home: From Storagewall to Invisible Design

Lynn Spigel
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 535–576.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630681
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lynn Spigel This essay explores the history of George Nelson’s Storagewall in relation to a genealogy of invisible design, up through the computer. It explores the way the Storagewall served to hide media machines and also to organize the gendered relations of labor and leisure in media homes...
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Commentary: Translation and Situation — Science, Metabolism, Finance

Judith Farquhar, John Kelly
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 551–557.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144643
Published: 01 September 2013
... institutions of credit unmoored capital from a “congealed labor” grounding in the labor process, toward competing imaginaries that management of various kinds must make real in actual flows of return on investment. The significance of risk measurement and management in this new order is thus intrinsic...
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The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Rethinking Race and Capitalism

Mingwei Huang
Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917178
Published: 01 May 2021
... and the scale of capital accumulation at China Malls are nowhere near those of the mining industry, nor are Chinese petty capitalists equivalent to white mine owners. Bearing these differences in mind, reading the mall through the mine illuminates patterns and logics related to Black labor and reveals...
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Governance Interface: The Index in Modi's India

Mila Samdub
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 473–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937382
Published: 01 September 2022
... and Public Life . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Power Michael . 2004 . “ Counting, Control, and Calculation: Reflections on Measuring and Management .” Human Relations 57 , no. 6 : 765 – 83 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726704044955 . Press Trust of India . 2018...
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Self-Appreciation; or, The Aspirations of Human Capital

Michel Feher
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-019
Published: 01 January 2009
... or modifying their behaviors and social interactions — they can never sell it. In short, rather than a possessive relationship, as that of the free laborer with his or her labor power, the relation- ship between the neoliberal subject and his...
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Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism

Joe Bandy
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-539
Published: 01 September 1996
... foreign-owned and managed, entail labor intensive production for low wages, and are primarily for the benefit of foreign exchange. Also, the labor often entails performative displays of native or local authenticity, revealing the source...
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Complexio Oppositorum : Notes on the Left in Neoliberal Italy

Andrea Muehlebach
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 495–515.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-005
Published: 01 September 2009
... l’uomo solidale, “solidaristic man.” Volunteers themselves reproduce this fantasy of anticapitalist agency, too, by representing their labor as lavoro relazionale, “relational labor.” What is imaginatively fused by very different social...
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Colossus in Ruins: Remembering Pittsburgh's Industrial Past

Jonathan Veitch
Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 115–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-115
Published: 01 January 1997
... experienced the effects of that process more thoroughly than the steel industry. That is particularly true in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley, where for the past fifteen years an ugly dispute has raged between labor and management over the closing of several factories and the layoff...
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The Contest between Information and Uncertainty: The Cold War Origins of Computational Policy Knowledge

Joy Rohde
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 405–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742579
Published: 01 September 2023
... or security bureaucrats, but the forms that they take increasingly locate expert legitimacy and government authority in information systems themselves. Like DARPA's Crisis Management Program, today's networked terminals promise to liberate analysts and decision-makers from much of the labor of knowing...
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Cultures of Circulation: The Imaginations of Modernity

Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 191–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-1-191
Published: 01 January 2002
... in a society in which labor is a commodity and commodity produc- tion has become so generalized as to subsume and preempt relations based on kinship and community. By contrast, Pierre Bourdieu (1977) argues that “time itself” is the pivotal fac...
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Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy

Nicole R. Fleetwood
Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 487–511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896195
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and emotional labor is useful in exploring the performance and management of emotions through prison portraiture. Moving beyond conventional notions of labor, recent feminist sociologists and theorists have examined how intimate and emotional labor are deployed in particular sites and practices by various...
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Cities and Citizenship

James Holston, Arjun Appadurai
Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 187–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-2-187
Published: 01 May 1996
... this dichotomy tends to present globalization, especially of labor, capital, and communication, as neutralizing the importance of place, indeed of rendering it irrelevant. This special issue of Public Culture proposes that such dematerialization...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

Sareeta Amrute
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841892
Published: 01 May 2015
... vectors of incorporation. 4 First, I turn to private space, especially in cars and buses, as an example of the discursive suasion of neoliberal philosophy in India that nevertheless contradictorily inserts a labor relation into the politics of middle-class enjoyment. I use ethnographic accounts about...
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Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature

Fernando Coronil
Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 351–374.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-351
Published: 01 May 2000
... the category “land/rent” as a way of conceptualizing the role of socially mediated natural powers in the construc- tion of capitalism. Yet his analysis of capitalism tended to privilege the capital/ labor relation and to assume that “land” (by which he meant all the socially mediated power of nature) would...
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Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Julia Elyachar
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443583
Published: 01 January 2012
...- to- one psychological contact. Channels created by phatic labor do not rely on one- to- one contact. Rather, they relate signers to interpreters so that signs of all 120 kinds (and not just language) expressed by the former can be immediately (even Next...
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