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Public Culture 11714115.
Published: 19 March 2025
...Arjun Appadurai; Vyjayanthi V. Rao INTRODUCTION Reading, Repair, Reconciliation ARJUN APPADURAI and VYJAYANTHI V. RAO ADVANCE PUBLICATION Public Culture s vision comes together across genres and cultural geographies, disciplines and professions. It depends on the untraceable impulses of individual...
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Bulldozers in the City Economies of Excess and Repair
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Public Culture 11767244.
Published: 19 March 2025
... becomes the adjudicator of justice through the extrajudicial exercise of power and the other, that circulates in the construction industry, its repair and refurbishment. It puts science and technological studies in conversation with urban political economy to argue how machines actively shape urban lives...
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Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 51–77.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Daniela K. Rosner Roughly once a month, small groups of volunteers gather at local museums, libraries, and other public venues to help visitors fix their broken stuff. Designated Repair Cafes, Fixit Clinics, or Fixers Collectives, the organizations bring together contemporary environmentalist...
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A full house at the second Palo Alto Repair Café hosted by the Museum of Am...
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Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 2 A full house at the second Palo Alto Repair Café hosted by the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto, California, on February 24, 2013. Photograph by Peter Mui
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Extracting Affect: Televised Cadre Confessions in China
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
Published: 01 January 2019
... to separate corrupt cadres from the party, repair the party’s image, and shore up the fragile foundation of its moral legitimacy. This essay offers a glimpse into the black box of how the party governs itself and exerts control over the affective lives of its cadres. Contrary to popular opinion, Xi...
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Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363–384.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of sociomaterial relations. This rupture cracks open a space for material diagnostics , wherein both familiar and unfamiliar political forms are able to take shape. Thus in material diagnostics are found both the potential for ontological difference and considerable repair work wherein the grounds for a future...
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In the Time of the Law
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 207–231.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of slavery and anti‐Blackness have not yet been acknowledged, much less repaired, within or beyond the US legal system. Agassiz never published the images and did not add the daguerreotypes to Harvard's museum collections. Tides were turning in Boston: support for Agassiz's theory of separate origins...
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This Is Not a Pipe: The Treacheries of Indigenous Housing
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 187–209.
Published: 01 January 2010
... a pragmatic issue of substandard original construction, undersupervised repairs, poor to nonexistent maintenance, and rapid shifts in policy attention is hidden to reinsert householders as the main culprits of substandard living conditions in many Aboriginal communities. A dirty literalism that sees...
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Leaky States: Water Audits, Ignorance, and the Politics of Infrastructure
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2015
... consumption and leakage, without so much as suggesting what these means might be. For instance, despite knowing of the leakages in New York’s water tunnels for decades, the city’s water department only recently invested in a concerted effort to repair them. A New York Times article detailed...
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Restless Reconciliation: Unsettling Victimhood and Perpetration
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Public Culture 11714193.
Published: 19 March 2025
... work of redress, repair, and reconciliation that the political sphere seems to proscribe, all the while exposing the stakes for current generations to come to terms with distant, yet still alive, pasts. While most of the cases have met with defeat in the courtroom, culminating in a landmark 2007...
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Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., not surprisingly, becomes the place where this frac-
ture can be repaired, where films are shown in their entirety, and where audi-
ences do not have to confront their physical and cultural marginality every time
they attend the cinema.
I have argued elsewhere (Larkin 1998–1999) that media technologies do...
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History of Atlantic Forest deforestation on Jaraguá Peak. The Bandeirantes ...
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to construct and repair Guarani houses. In red: area of Atlantic Forest deforested for road construction.
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., at the peak of the heat waves, the national government seized the administration of an underused fund it had created the previous year, with the aim of allowing Edenor and Edesur to perform repairs, maintenance, and upgrades to the grid. 4 By the same token, the fragmentation and deregulation...
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Producing “Participation”? The Pleasures and Perils of Technical Engagement in Radio Activism
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and out and missing various components. After two full days of labor directed toward diagnosing and repairing the machines, arguably little progress had occurred; the transmitters, though cleaner, were still not functional, and hardly closer to being so. They were placed into storage. How might...
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Editor’s Letter
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 1–2.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., by Christina Dunbar-Hester and Daniela K. Rosner, examining the kinds of ethical and political projects involved in repair work. These essays resonate with “Urban Design from Below,” in which Jennifer Mack illustrates how, in one Swedish town, a group of Syriac Christian immigrants gradually transformed...
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People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 407–429.
Published: 01 September 2004
...,
Berea, Joubert Park, Yeoville, and Bertams takes less than twenty minutes. Yet
navigation of their interior requires familiarity with many different and, on the
surface, conflicting temporal trajectories through which Johannesburg has changed,
with its sudden switches across ruin, repair...
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The Privatization of Risk
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 257–263.
Published: 01 May 2006
... assistance to move the
sick and elderly from New Orleans hospitals, like earlier inadequate investment
in levee repair, reflects a widespread pattern: the reduction of public provision of
public goods in favor of reliance on private markets or just plain tax cuts. Social
institutions built over...
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Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 359–366.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to file disability discrimination lawsuits, but research for a cure,
for a repair of bodies seen as broken, for an end to disability. Lewis is strategi-
cally playing the cards of the medical model and the charity model. Or think...
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The Birth of the Workshop: Technomorals, Peace Expertise, and the Care of the Self in the Middle East
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2014
... more penetrating effect and a powerful appeal to the entire country. Indeed, in postwar Lebanon a number of important and ambitious sociopolitical projects sought to mend the wounds, repair the cracks, overhaul the loss, and reflect on the experiences of the devastating war. 4 The reconstruction...
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What Is Just Translation?
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2021
... people with crippling self-hatred.” It involves a poetics of repair, in tune with Fred Moten's ( 2017 : 169) lines, “Wrapped in the radiated weave of sackcloth as prayercloth . . . we're all right here, outside your jurisdiction, criminal in the work and out of phase, at prayer, in preparation, of repair...
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