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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 531–538.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and activists alike. We introduce the four commentaries, which collectively provide a challenging set of observations concerning RETORT'S analysis of the contemporary geopolitical moment, focusing in particular on their theorization of the spectacle, the nature of U.S. imperialism, and the politics of modernity...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 551–560.
Published: 01 September 2008
... into the discussion. Duke University Press 2008 The Death Wish of Modernity
and the Politics of Mimesis
Cindi Katz
On February 15, 2003, just before the war in Iraq com-
menced in full, antiwar activists marched...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Homi Bhabha Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 RAEAND TWttUMANITl€S
TttE: “€NDS” OF MODERNITY?
In the inaoduction to her authoritative history of The Idea @Race in
Science Nancy Stepan finds herself in agreement with George W. Stocking,
“that trying...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 489–510.
Published: 01 September 1996
...C. J. W.-L. Wee Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago 1996 Staging the New Asia:
Singapore’s Dick Lee, Pop Music,
and a Counter-modernity
C. J. W.4. Wee
1n...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 109–145.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Dipesh Chakrabarty Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Adda, Calcutta: Dwelling in
Modernity
Dipesh Chakrabarty
And it is a good sign that I still enjoy adda...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Robert McCarthy Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Miniaturizing Modernity:
Shahzia Sikander in
Conversation with Homi K.
Bhabha
edited by Robert...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Charles Taylor Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Two Theories of Modernity
Charles Taylor
There seem to be at large in our culture two ways of understanding the rise of
T modernity. They are in effect two different...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Elizabeth A. Povinelli Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Settler Modernity and the
Quest for an Indigenous
Tradition
Elizabeth A. Povinelli...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Michael Hanchard Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Afro-Modernity: Temporality,
Politics, and the African
Diaspora
Michael Hanchard
P
eople of African descent have...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Encompassing Others:The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia (2000). Currently they are working on a book manuscript titled “The Cultures of Circulation.” Anderson, Benedict. 1991 . Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 21–43.
Published: 01 January 2019
... in particular to the height and gender of Le Corbusier’s Modulor Man, I argue that the forgotten system of measurement has much to teach us about the affective economies that underpin modernity and ongoing practices of measurement. This essay recovers the midcentury political trajectory of the Modulor — its...
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Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... Microfinance in particular foreshadows the future of finance capital, where trade in debt will require creative practices of converting hyper-risk into profit. These riskscapes are also formations of modernity. It is through encounters with poverty that the modern self is constituted. Such practices of liberal...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 357–384.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Cotten Seiler How will the car affect China, that once “immobile empire”? US media accounts put tremendous faith in automobility as a maker of liberal political subjects as China undergoes its postsocialist transformation. But is the type of freedom offered by automobilized modernity necessarily...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 89–108.
Published: 01 January 1991
... in a society anxiously awaiting outside the gate of modernization.
Judging from the time of its appearance, that is, in a moment when a
baniuupt ideological orthodoxy has rolled back to reassert itself with sheer
force and terror, this article and its ardent call for a renewed and ever ex-
plicit...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 457–475.
Published: 01 May 2000
...” ( Social Text , 1998) and In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand (2000). Modernity’s Media and
the End of Mediumship?
On the Aesthetic Economy of
Transparency...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 331–348.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Keith Breckenridge Gandhi is conventionally viewed as a lifelong critic of Western modernity and colonial government. This essay shows that these views, which were famously expressed in Hind Swaraj , took form in his struggle against the Transvaal state between 1906 and 1908. Before that time...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 377–394.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Vyjayanthi Rao This article analyzes the Gandhian legacy in contemporary Indian art practices, including photography, architecture, and film, and investigates the possibilities and impasses of a specifically Gandhian modern aesthetic practice. Situating a specific set of artistic projects...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 251–265.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Nicholas Garnham Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 The Mass Media, Cultural Identity,
and the Public Sphere in
the Modern World
Nicholas Garnham
Anyone trying...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 251–289.
Published: 01 May 1996
... and Modernities. London: Verso. Amuzegar , J. 1982. “Oil Wealth: A Very Mixed Blessing.” Foreign Affairs Spring : 814 -835. Asad , T. 1993. Genealogies of Religion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Ayubi , N. 1991. Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. On Alternative Modernities
Dilip Parameshwar...
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