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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 563–592.
Published: 01 September 2016
... with choice paralysis and the disappearance of the subject, here it serves as a technology of the self. The composure toward chance events that gamblers cultivate online carries over to their lives off-line, lending them a subjective “readiness” for living with uncertainty. The case of online poker offers...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 May 2009
... . New York: Oxford University Press. Kirk, Mimi. 2007. Reach out and lend. Foreign Policy, March–April, www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3728 (accessed January 30, 2009). Klimkiewicz, Joann. 2007 . Tiny business loans pay big emotional return. Hartford Courant , October 4...
Journal Article
Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 493–513.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the antiglobalization protestors by insisting that he, too, was against
development. “We,” he said, “are way ahead of the protestors.”5 To prove his
point, he cited charts to illustrate the decline of development lending for large pro-
jects at the bank and the parallel rise of so-called microloans, that is, very...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2022
... the trigger of these symptoms might be. The issue opens with cover art by Nettrice Gaskins. Gaskins collaborates with artificial intelligences to generate digital portraits. These works, while born digital, draw on physical sources such as cloth to lend a textural complexity to the handmade algorithmic...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
lending, of the “Walmartization” of microfinance. In the face of such crisis, key
interlocutors of the self-labeled microfinance movement have turned to “ethics,”
to the theme of responsible finance. The set of “client protection principles” circu...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 1.
Published: 01 January 2009
... frame. The contrasts
and permutations between the essays lend the issue as a whole the dynamism of
a sociological “book of mutations” that brings argument and phenomenological
substance to the discussion of the future today.
Public Culture 21:1 d o i 10.1215/08992363-2008-035
Copyright...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 60–65.
Published: 01 May 1989
... concerts were not just any rock; they were rock performed by
symbols of a rock mythology, resonating Woodstock, when love, politics,
and music melted together into a community feeling. Only rock stars who
could credibly lend celebrity to a cause were included on the tour. They
were...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 1995
...
thus lending them urgency and drama as “issues
On the following pages I proceed chronologically, beginning with Islam as
framed in the official-ceremonial realm of state television. Then, I focus upon
the 1991 television campaign of Turkey’s Islamist political party, Refah Party,
which...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 January 1999
...
not lend itself to simplistic dissection and separation. Maybe this refusal is where
I’ve entered the work myself: the central, footless figure in Fleshy Weapons is
rooted to herself.
Shahzia Sikander attended the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan and
the Rhode Island School of Design...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 465–485.
Published: 01 September 2012
...). In Rittermann’s way of seeing, ladders, dock winches,
scaffolding, and overpasses lend a frenzied lyrical structure to the urban clutter.
In one image, a long line of coal- laden barges slowly floats past an embankment
of poplars at night; the boats and trees measure out a pleasing rhythm of vertical...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): ix–x.
Published: 01 January 2005
... endeavor, and the complexly circulating social sensorium
that provides the languages and trace memories out of which these scholarly con-
versations and their publishing trajectories arise.
This issue of Public Culture exemplifi es the long-standing goals of the journal to
lend itself to essays...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 155–158.
Published: 01 May 1991
... in battle if
the entreaties of flagwavers are powerful enough.
Sentiment is the key to shamanistic flag magic. Ostentatious demonstra-
tions of sentiment in displays and parades that may seem tacky or gauche to
those who identify with numinous rulers are what lends this popular magic...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 89–108.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., not as interventions in cultural
and political processes which must themselves be situated and decon-
structed. Novels are invoked to lend support to Mbembe’s view of the post-
colony, without respect for the difference between literary and social-sci-
ence representational conventions and their related...
Journal Article
Public Culture 11714180.
Published: 19 March 2025
... that if critical theory today is to properly lend a voice to suffering, to quote Adorno (1973: 17 18), then it must labor with empathy to release diverse forms of mediation from nominalist blinders and constraints. Such critical insight guides our efforts to develop a positive metaphysics of mediation...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 313–317.
Published: 01 January 1999
... to
visit a non-lending library and archive. He has been very creative in matching
themes and venues: An exhibition on the workers’ sports movement appeared in
sports clubs; another on political puppetry opened at a puppet festival; and one...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 599–618.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the
women’s apparel department of every Target into a buzz-worthy pop-up store, of
sorts — cleverly lending an air of exclusivity to mass-produced fare.
On blogs and in op-ed pages, some New Yorkers derided the sneakiness of
these “moving Targets” (the double-decker with huge bull’s-eyes on it was espe...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2010
... continues to lend his or her body in pain, subjecting
it to further pain, for the sake of generating sufficient data to permit a medical-
scientific inference, which is riddled with its own pathos, the counting of the dead.
Jain recounts a doctor declaring that “1,050 people would have to relapse...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 177–189.
Published: 01 January 2011
... it. In 2005 an
acquaintance, an Englishman with a degree in economics, told me with a straight
face: “Colonialism gave you, regardless of race, the chance to speak three lan-
guages [Arabic, French, and English], a different turn of mind. . . . It was a way for
European nations to lend a helping hand...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2005
...
most infl uential study of Du Bois’s political thought dismisses the idea that lit-
erary analysis can lend itself to political interpretation. Surveying the history
of the critical reception of Souls, Adolph Reed has reproached petit bourgeois,
postsegregation-era black intellectuals for giving...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... called Muhammad Farms, uses it as a platform to advocate against continued injustices to Black farmers (Muhammad 2019 ). For fifteen years, New Communities survived droughts and discriminatory US Department of Agriculture (USDA) lending before foreclosing in 1985. However, in 2009, the NCI was awarded...
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