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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 431–448.
Published: 01 May 2011
... circumvented the dominant political languages of liberalism, historicism, and Marxism by focusing on sacrifice and the transformation of the self. This radical politics of truth, while impossible to institutionalize, nevertheless signaled the twentieth-century reevaluation of human experience. The Gandhian...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 51–77.
Published: 01 January 2014
... concerns with time-honored techniques: disassembling toasters that no longer heat, testing Bluetooth devices without signals, and removing dust from unplayable iPods. This essay traces the development of technocratic ideals and gendered identities within two such groups: the Fixit Clinic located...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in midcentury Britain and India. What sorts of evidence were required to know that a cure was in fact a cure? How did scientists ascertain when and if a cure had failed? And what were the ethical entailments of such modes of knowing? Through this history, I suggest that cure, rather than signaling a definitive...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 403–430.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Daniel Monterescu The emergence of gated communities in Israel/Palestine signals new modes of urban exclusion, which reshape previous forms of spatial distinction. Focusing on the ethnically “mixed town” of Jaffa, where an unprecedented number of such gated communities have been constructed...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
... de Kirchner, unleashed a storm of accusations and counteraccusations, political speculation, rumors, and legal battles. In this article, I explore the multifold processes of truth-making around this event. In proposing the term “moral economy of truth,” I signal how understandings of truth serve...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to it. Yet they represent the last category of persons formally to be disallowed political agency, suggesting it is their very unfreedom that allows children to exercise power. Does their mobilization in contemporary politics signal the limits of its realm? One of the earliest children to receive global...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
... whose onset is signaled by the smelt population’s decline. 3 For a historical analysis of the affect of endangerment, see Vidal and Dias 2015. 2 Additional in-stream and upstream diversions amount to approximately 5 million acre-feet per year. The percentage of water diverted becomes much...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2021
... is the larger aspiration. But given practical limitations, this means scaling down to select terms and cases that signal translational injustice under conditions of violence and legal disputation. These conditions include gender violence and sexual safety across languages, the untranslatability of terms like...
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in Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters
> Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 16 Mary Petillo, Forelady of a Newark, New Jersey Factory Making Lamp Bulbs and Tubes for the Signal Corps, . . . Made a Suggestion to Conserve Bakelite Lamp Bases Formerly Discarded—a Suggestion Now in Use at the Plant—and Is Also the Inventor of an Apparatus Which Prevents Short
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of evolution to treat the maladapted citizen of the technological environment. White fat cells are now understood to secrete a wide range of signaling molecules that modulate inflammation, appetite, and fat metabolism, and many of these molecules are produced within adipose tissue’s distinctive circadian...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 387–403.
Published: 01 May 1999
... trading company (followed by the colonial power) gained
full dominion and sovereignty over signal points along the route.2 There were
negotiations between the trader (or the government of the trader) and the local
authority (king, city...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 305–311.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to map some of the contours of this assumption. Consider the undersea cable systems that carry transoceanic Internet traffic. Surely, they are media. The glass strands of fiber-optic cables transmit infrared light; they are a physical substrate of Internet signals. These cables also transmit power...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 79–100.
Published: 01 January 2014
... visualized? Maybe we could send signals over wires? I liked the ways perforated sheets looked inside the player piano, and maybe that could look like information and we could project light through the perforations that look like dots and dashes, to represent Morse code. The Morse code itself seemed too crude...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 385–398.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., was
imposed somewhat arbitrarily on essays that came together, as it were, on their
own, in ways unimagined by the authors and the editors alike. One of the rarer
pleasures of editing a journal is when unsolicited submissions begin to signal,
assert, and gravitate toward a new problematic of which...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 January 1992
... in Latin America adopted a puritanical style. Often,
the generals justified their coups as a response to the corruption of populist
politicians. Their pose of austerity occasionally extended to puerile, pater-
nalistic repression that signaled their conservatism: in Argentina they banned...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2006
... on past cultural work.
Sites of Knowledge: Reportage and deliberation on institutions that have made a signal
mark on a world region. Research centers, journals, publishing ventures, or any other
institution of knowledge production and dissemination can be selected for close...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 424–427.
Published: 01 September 1999
... of the New York avant garde. A signal feature of the project was its fixation
on Sherman’s own body, made protean by her virtuosity with cosmetics, ward-
robe, and setting.1 Laura Mulvey has described this concentration on the female
form as a “re...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 333–368.
Published: 01 May 2010
... clients against the celebrity photographer. The
lawsuit signaled both the success and the reach of the anti-Coca-Cola struggle.
Plachimada had come to haunt Chennai, the largest metropolis in South India,
the ubiquitous pots assembled...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 409–418.
Published: 01 September 2015
... sensible consumer doesn’t have the time, patience, or inclination to have a conversation with her husband. Why in the world would she want to have a conversation with us?” ( Hoffman 2010 ). If there is a revolution in advertising today, it is the search for ways to signal value to clients...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 157–161.
Published: 01 May 1992
... not permit the reception of any signals other
than those bounced off INSAT 1-D, the somewhat wobbly Indian satellite with its
payload jampacked with transponders dedicated to telephone services. But the government
has little or no policing facilities to restrain dish-users from recbiving foreign...
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