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Published: 01 September 2015
Figure 9 Allen, Valentine’s Day portrait, date unknown More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Robyn Creswell In “Embargoed Literature,” an essay written twenty-five years ago, Edward W. Said noted that “of all the major world literatures, Arabic remains relatively unknown and unread in the West.” How is it that one of the world’s great literary corpuses, as rich as those of classical Greek...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 15 Herbert Rudolph James, Machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Has Been Awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit . Photographer: unknown. OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-010695 More
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 147–152.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Our authors risk giving words to the unspeakable as they invite us to think about the unthinkable, whose brutalized form is the exception and whose routine form is the future itself. Their works critique a paradigm that conceives the world as a matrix of knowns, unknowns, known unknowns, and unknown...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 35–40.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.” But of course, knowing produces a surfeit of unknowns. Every attempt to resolve uncertainty will find it comes back multiplied like the many-headed...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 305–310.
Published: 01 May 2002
... live citizens who probably consider themselves safe from the depredations of unknown elements. 41 Shots intimates that they (we) are in fact at risk—not from the unknown, but from the appointed guardians of public safety. The vestibule, a transitional zone between inside and outside, Public...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 2–9.
Published: 01 January 1995
... of anxiety (only seen as transgressive or exotic objects) unknown, the sense of mystery our atavistic ills, The Arab as always transfigured, exoticized and ostracized .a.s. the: im.age.al~nle, enough to enact to push out and away enough for us to be aggressed upon to lose it any sense...
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Published: 01 January 2018
-Circuiting during Tests of Lamps . Photographer: unknown. OWI, 1942? [question mark in archive], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-010675 [P&P]. More
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the city. 6 Consistent with the diagnosis provided by Haresh, I believe that the problems of “water shortage” have more to do with the leakages in the city’s largely unknown and unmetered water mains that connect the reservoirs to people’s homes. The Mumbai Municipal Corporation (colloquially known...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234.
Published: 01 May 2005
... the “unknown world” that lies beyond the city limits (95). This unknown world is marked fi rst by the desolate landscape, with its once fertile soil now exhausted. Little of beauty remains, “only a sort of crude abandon that suggests power,—a naked grandeur as it were” (99). Throughout the chapter Du...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 41–70.
Published: 01 May 1991
... of distant civilizations, like the archeologist; and it could narrate the customs and habits of exotic peo- ples, like the ethnographer. Speaking in the voice of a pedagogue, dominant Westem cinema could claim to initiate the Western spectator into unknown cultures, projected as lived (in line...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 153–154.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and a hypothesis (Dennis 2018 ), the model materializes the entanglement of matter and meaning, expressing the simultaneity of what is and how it is understood. Just as importantly, models hold open the gap between known, unknown, and not known yet where so much is still possible. Hence, training objects...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 113–142.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Figure 15 Herbert Rudolph James, Machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Has Been Awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit . Photographer: unknown. OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-010695...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 109–145.
Published: 01 January 1999
... and spend time in the company of my grandchildren Had it not been for the association Ramuchacha had with a space treated in Bengali middle-class memory as a sacred site in the history of Bengali literary modernism, the retirement of an “unknown...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 1–3.
Published: 01 January 2017
...? How are we to make sense of the wounds we inflict? This beautifully rendered essay is nearly impossible to read and as such represents the best of what Public Culture can do: make that which we thought we knew more unknown, yet better understood. Josef Sorett joins Tahir in our Forum section...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 453–455.
Published: 01 September 2006
... conditions in which the critics of block thought on each side are unknown to one another. We urgently need cross- over figures who can take part in the inner polemic on both sides and who can bring these two discourses into contact. Of course, there are such people, if we are prepared to acknowledge...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
... ( Grimson 2015 ). By focusing on these divisions, my third objective is to explore the construction of authoritative knowledge and the production of truth(s), particularly especially through and around specific events. How do we make sense of the unknown and unexpected? I consider how moments of rupture...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 247–271.
Published: 01 May 2007
... certain grasp on the future. These are cases in which decisions cannot be made on the basis of a cost-benefit bal- ance, which remains unknown. Ewald writes of the limits of an insurance-based approach in such cases: “One cannot foresee what...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 265–269.
Published: 01 May 2006
...) negotiations, among unknown parties with undisclosed private agen- das, ended up being trumpeted as a “national agreement.” The announcement was made by an assorted collection of three hundred celebrities — football players, movie stars, pop singers, writers, Catholic bishops — who were led by the rich...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 129–133.
Published: 01 May 2021
... performing a contortion act was among the happiest moments in their lives. Paying attention to children's experiences during this pandemic is essential. These are world historical conditions in the formation of childhood and they will leave lasting and still unknown effects on social orders and political...