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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 419–423.
Published: 01 May 1994
... ( 2 ): 316 -327. Prestidigitations: A Reply to Charles Stone Tamara Hamlish 1n Janelle Taylor’s interview with Xu Bing (Taylor 1993), the artist noted that reactions to his work A Book from the Sky when...
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Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 12 Roros Pizzeria with imported stone facade, 2009. Photograph by author More
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 407–410.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Charles Stone Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Xu Bing and the Printed Word Charles Stone 1was struck by the claim that a luxuriant display of futility characterizes Xu Bing’s A Bookfiom the Sky, as described...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 139–160.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Jonny Steinberg Based on two years of intensive fieldwork with Asad Abdullahi, a young itinerant Somali man, this article explores a paradox about forced migration. Asad, in his own words, has been “kicked around like a stone,” having had to flee several homes over the past two decades. And yet...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 177–185.
Published: 01 January 1995
... of a corpse . . . but the old building is destroyed, and the more totally and mercilessly than if it had sunk into a heap of dust. . . . Count the stones of (an old building) as you wouM jewels of a crown. John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1848) Certain I am...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 139–140.
Published: 01 May 1992
... effect of unreflective stone; A piece of rock, a piece of the true wall, ' The very cardboard incarnation of Totemic cant confirming toys are us. Nowhere there is that doesn't love a mall. Good neighbors fence for makers Who still...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 210–221.
Published: 01 January 1999
...) fled abroad, the stately dwellings they abandoned in Stone Town were confiscated and transformed into public housing. All the old names were rewritten to fit a new script: the Mnazi Mmoja Hospital was christened V.I. Lenin; the English Club became Africa House Hotel; St. Joseph’s school...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 65–84.
Published: 01 January 2013
... with me. SK: What path led you from the medieval legal world to becoming a student of modern Britain and Lawrence Stone? TL: Stone was not the only person at Princeton who had a major influence on me. The historian...
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 January 1988
... of 'our music.' This duality of appropriation is typically located in stories like this: Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones obviously contributed to the fame, income, and recognition of Muddy Waters when they recorded his song, Mannish Boy, which was co-written with Bo Diddley, utilizing many...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 May 2007
... into the terraced fields and olive groves, far from the soldiers; we leap over barbed-wire fences, stumble over stone hedges. From time to time Palestinian taxis from Bil’in arrive on the main road to collect us, but each time we run forward to get...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 January 1990
... such as the PLO is particularly keen. Before the outbreak of the Intifada, the competition between the Brothers and the PLO often led to violent clashes or “stones, clubs, and beatings,” as one Palestinian put it. Since the Uprising, however, all groups have tried to refrain from using sticks and stones...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 153–185.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Figure 12 Roros Pizzeria with imported stone facade, 2009. Photograph by author ...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 411–418.
Published: 01 May 1994
...” legacy. A different view, which Charles Stone suggests in his letter published in this issue, relates Nonsense Writing to an even broader tradition of Chinese arts and aesthetics. We are encouraged to see traces of continuity between Xu Bing’s work and ancient art forms such as “wild grass...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 65–76.
Published: 01 January 1993
...). Natural objects such as stones would continue to exist if we did not think about them, but their being as “stones”is derived from a process of narrativisation. It is only within particular classificatory systems that have been historically con...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 573–605.
Published: 01 September 2006
... that imitate natural stone, unexpectedly respond to this sociocultural disposition. However, one has to realize that we are creating a short-lived Hollywood architecture. One can only photograph it — that’s all.”11...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 373–405.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., living, recre- Aesthetics of ation, and transportation. It had its own newspapers, its horse-drawn trams, its Superfluity solid stone buildings, its stock exchange, its banks, post offices, telephone ex- change, railway stations, and various social clubs. Later on, it built its galleries, parks...
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 January 1991
... of a tree. The dome of a stupa, rises above the treeline in regal splendour. In the distance I hear the drums of the past beating an ancestral tune. I stand in the mounting heat, marvelling at the fallen stone pillars...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 95–105.
Published: 01 January 1994
... that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded. Nelson Mandela, Cape Town Address, May 9, 1994 I Perhaps it was history that ordained that it be here, the Cape of Good Hope, that we should lay the foundation stone of our new nation. For it was here at this Cape...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 May 1991
..., No. 2: Spring 1991 2 Public Culture Over the 198Os, Hollywood filmmakers turned with renewed energy to stones of individual mobility and success. The scaled-down dreams of 1970s melodramas such as Rocky .or Saturday Night Fever gave way...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 121–133.
Published: 01 May 1991
.... The dilemma for the imagemakers is what to do about Saudi Arabia4ur ally. Did you fol- low the stones in The New York Times about the group of educated women in Saudi Arabia who launched a small protest, asserting their right to drive? This was a story that got quite a bit of play in November. About...