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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
Published: 01 May 2016
... scale for assessing climate risk. Whether a revitalized modernist trust in infrastructure is up to the task remains to be seen, even while climate change is repeatedly used to justify and legitimate a major shift to large-scale infrastructure investment especially in the global South. Cities...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 295–312.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Beatriz Jaguaribe Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Modernist Ruins: National
Narratives and Architectural
Forms
Beatriz Jaguaribe
Rio de Janeiro is a city...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 403–430.
Published: 01 May 2009
... space and inhabited time. Operating as a neo-orientalist simulacrum, such projects subvert, spatially and semiotically, the standard logic of urban representation and modernistic notions of segregation. The concept of spatial heteronomy is proposed to address such dialectic strategies of spatial...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 115–128.
Published: 01 January 2021
... forms outside the empire of the modernist museum. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 museums globalization planet objects refugees I begin with a strange inversion in the cultural life of Europe. Europe has extended itself across the planet through its tools of cartography...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 153–185.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Jennifer Mack Outlining a theory of “urban design from below,” this essay considers how so-called users have reshaped space at the urban scale, as I trace the history of immigrants’ transformations of a Swedish modernist new town neighborhood. Here a peripheral green strip that government planners...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ayala Levin Abstract This essay is concerned with how architecture was imagined to mediate tropical climate in the interest of forming productive postcolonial national subjects. It charts a transition in approach from late colonial to postcolonial modernist architecture as it was exemplified...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 303–328.
Published: 01 May 1996
..., Jeopardy. Cambridge: Belknap Press. Holston , James . 1989. The Modernist City: An Anthoropological Critique of Brasília. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Holston , James . 1991. “Autoconstruction in working-class Brazil.” Cultural Anthropology 6 ( 4 ): 447 -465. Jencks...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 377–394.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the
ways in which, as Rancière puts it, “our world is given to perceiving itself and
in which the powers that be assert their legitimacy,” the particular artistic inter
ventions I explore here draw on Gandhian legacies to make particular claims on
a national-modernist space. Further, I try...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 417–430.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and values of the elite scientists and corporations who organize and subsidize their production; sometimes indirectly, and sometimes quite directly. As the thumbnail sketch above suggests, contemporary AI—as a technology and as a field of inquiry—overwhelmingly participates in a modernist political...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 599–602.
Published: 01 September 2002
...-
ment, picking out striking angles and vantage points, leaving any thought of syn-
thesis to the end.
1. Mbembe’s attack on African modernist self-writing as impoverished (thin,
superficial, reductionist) evokes a confusion of ironies and contradictions that
would take a much longer comment...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 January 1997
... to gender and
to Western modernity, revealing the social relations of power between modernist-
Westernist elites and those who challenge them from the Islamist perspective.
Gender issues, such as communitarian morality, women’s modesty, and the social
mixing between men and women, are central...
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 17–19.
Published: 01 January 1988
... for
current needs, is easily reachable from the housing zones. The city's
cemetery, efficiently located next to the hospital, is itself laid out in a grid
corresponding to Brasilia's super quadra housing pattern.
The fundamental contradiction of this modernist city is the fact that those
who built...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 219–230.
Published: 01 January 1993
... subversions to attempt to redirect the associations and implications 22 I
carried by key vocabularies. In the Islamic world, it is noteworthy that both Etymologies
leaders of modernist Islam over the past century, and feminist leaders, have
mined the resources of such etymological sub-versions...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 1991
... in both poetry and prose. His later
evolution into a cult figure among Bengalis as a visionary poet-thinker, however, had to
wait until he was “discovered” by some eminent modernist poets in the West (most no-
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file of a man...
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Public Culture (1997) 9 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 September 1997
... in Hong Kong art can be seen by looking at the way in
which artists relate to Western modernist and Chinese traditionalist cul-
tural narratives, both of which are present in Hong Kong cultural space. Whilst
there have been artists who have attempted to adhere to one or the other of them...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 503–530.
Published: 01 September 2003
... and their interpreta-
tions existing in unstable and even contradictory relations to one another.
In terms of linguistic ideology (Kroskrity 2000), Indonesian makes two claims
to universality that reflect the claims of modernist nationalisms more broadly...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 251–265.
Published: 01 May 1993
... modernists and postmodernists is whether the
world is best understood as the further working out of that set of social dynamics
and thus best understood in terms of the conceptual paradigms and value systems
developed within Enlightenment thought...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 545–556.
Published: 01 September 2002
... locations for the crystallization of these two types of nostalgia. In the case
of modernist nostalgia, the consumption of Ostprodukte appears as a form of pro-
duction itself—a reappropriation of symbols that establishes “ownership” of
symbolic capital or what Michel de Certeau (1984: xiii) calls...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
... how this epistemological analysis of the built environment contributes to a history of neoliberalism. Yet only at midcentury did the widespread modernist assumption of a causal relationship between humans and their environment congeal in the term habitat . The massive destruction of housing...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 January 2005
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depend on necessarily fl uid and transversal spaces and a temporality that is intrin-
sically connected to temporalities elsewhere? In what way, for example, can we
consider Miami a city in standard modernist terms when there is a constant cir...
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