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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 21–43.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Dave Tell The Modulor was a tape measure–style tool created by Le Corbusier in the 1940s to govern the distribution of objects in space. When he first conceived of the Modulor, Le Corbusier was a bureaucrat working in the fascist regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain. Six years later, the same tool...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 7 Victor Olgyay, “Man as the Central Measure in Architecture,” from Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism (1963). Copyright © 1963 and 1991 by Princeton University Press/Author. Reprinted by permission More
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Nikhil Anand In this article I explore the political and technical controversies of measuring water leakages in Mumbai to demonstrate how the dense historical accretions of technology, material, and social life that form hydraulic infrastructures in Mumbai trouble the audit cultures of neoliberal...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
Published: 01 May 2016
... agenda to the technical project of adaptation. An analysis of interventions aimed at building social infrastructure throughout the city’s hydrological systems reveals how the inclusion of the urban poor is enacted through practices of measurement. While urban politics in Latin America has long revolved...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 May 2019
... action measure. In appeals to Prop 209 that reach beyond the letter of law we can, perhaps, see a darker version of what legal anthropologist Sally Merry (1990) found when studying people’s expectations for justice to be served in small claims court: she found that people were disappointed when...
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Published: 01 January 2022
gifted to central authorities on the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, based on “Total Web” data collected within its 24-hour range; see also Wu 2020a . The former categorizes emotion into Positive (blue), Negative (red), and Neutral (orange); the latter, titled “Computing Emotion, Measuring More
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 473–493.
Published: 01 September 2022
... neutral, transparent, or objective measures of performance. 1 Rather, by pitting administrative units against each other, they render development as competition, centralizing state power and promoting entrepreneurship as the answer to poverty. The index (and the associated indicator...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 449–469.
Published: 01 May 2011
... whatsoever. In other words, a willing surrender.”5 The radical break Gandhi makes here is less with liberalism’s moral sentiment than with its possessive individualism. Where the possessive individual measures equality by what he possesses...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 247–271.
Published: 01 May 2007
... one does not know, even less what one cannot know.”10 And further, catastrophic and irreparable events cannot be adequately compensated. If the likelihood of the event is not measurable and its extent is not assessable...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 272–306.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., and environmental data, a fantasy of self- regulating and self-propagating systems emerges. This is a city that may not be fantasized as conscious but certainly fan- tasized as something capable of intelligence and cognition by way of modulating and measuring the affective states and senses of its many...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 May 2018
... symptoms, and has plenty of opportunities for transmission before being detected and treated. The cure for tuberculosis, as Bharat Jayram Venkat (2016) details in his essay “Cures,” published in Public Culture , is similarly difficult to detect and is measured in clinical, radiological...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 January 2002
...: The measurement of uncertainty before 1900 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. 1985 . Culture,thought, and social action: An anthropological perspective . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Urban, Gregory. 1996 . Metaphysical community: The interplay of the senses...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 209–246.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the sound of an accordion is to a Marseilles sailor, or the jaunty plinkety-plunk of the banjo to a Louisiana woodsman, so is the rhythmic, measured refrain of a crime statistic to a South African. —Darrel Bristow-Bovey...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 417–424.
Published: 01 May 1998
... inward-looking and insular forms of politics. The trend was clear- est in the economic realm, where the interwar crises of international trade and finance, including the abandoning of gold as a global measure of the value of money, produced...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 29–34.
Published: 01 January 2007
... with the politics of hope in the middle of the twentieth century. This is the new consciousness of global poverty as a measurable social fact (partly produced by 3 0 the disciplines of demography, development economics, and social statistics) Hope and Democracy whose...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 607–610.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Progress, in the sense of a better life—clean water, good health, education, hope, decent housing, safety—is often measured in terms of life expectancy. Although there have been debates on how to measure life expectancy, it is commonly under...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 579–595.
Published: 01 September 1994
.... The spirit of party shut up within narrow limits, equally strips both praise and blame of its nature. 2. To secure the confidence of the people, and their assent to the measures of the legislature: - Suspicion always attaches...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
... operators. For example, operators would be required to track the physical proximity of smelt to the huge pumps in the south delta that were blamed for significant fish mortality, as measured by the “daily salvage index.” If the salvage index reached a certain threshold, operators would have to reduce...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 137–147.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... But as the social and economic cost of these measures became increasingly apparent, officials were desperate to find alternative approaches that would enable them to balance the reopening of the economy with keeping case numbers at bay. App-based contact tracing seemed like an attractive solution. Rather than...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 441–467.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in” the front door, was a manuscript describing the weapons that make up the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Most of the information was drawn from the open literature on U.S. nuclear weapons, with two key excep- tions: one was the component layout of a miniaturized U.S. warhead, the other the measurements of a key...