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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 January 2005
... University Press. Bauman, Richard, and Charles L. Briggs. 2003 . Voices of modernity: Language ideologies and the politics of inequality . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bhabha, Homi. 1996 . Unsatisfied: Notes on vernacular cosmopolitanism. In Text and nation: Cross-disciplinary essays...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 591–625.
Published: 01 September 2000
... 11/16/00 3:01 PM Page 591 Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History Sheldon Pollock F ew things seem to us as natural as the multiplicity of vernacular...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 679–702.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Diouf 11/16/00 3:05 PM Page 679 The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism Mamadou Diouf...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
... was not conclusive. As he in his advanced years moved diffidently toward the vernacular tradition of religion he was reared on and toward its distinctive forms of openness and inclusivity, he was bound to become a bundle of contradictions and unwittingly tilt toward a worldview in which the Muslims and Islam had...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 417–430.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that embraces local vernaculars, the multiplicity of objectives, the responsibilities that come with producing persons, and the potential of instigating rather than circumventing political contestation. To clarify the stakes, it draws on the key evolutionary idea of niche construction, contrasting the thin...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 487–511.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Nicole R. Fleetwood “Posing in Prison” examines vernacular photography and studio portraiture taken inside US prisons through an investigation of the production practices and the circulation of these images in and out of prisons. The photographs include images that document family visits...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., the workshop constitutes maybe the absolute travel device: it can be transported and deployed everywhere without the need for translation into local vernaculars; it can exemplify the moral ambition for peace in the world backed with technical arrangements of space, time, and learning mostly imported from other...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 471–480.
Published: 01 May 2011
...-­based vernacular capitalism of the bazaar and novel metropolitan market legalities. a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), especially 70 – 73; Spivak, Imperatives to Re-­imagine the Planet / Imperative zur Neuerfindung...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 49–76.
Published: 01 January 1994
... can be reconstructed where black vernacular forms have recently appeared as objects of serious academic scrutiny. It features strongly in discussions of Hip hop and Rap because of the way that these expres- sions precipitate and dramatise...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 101–126.
Published: 01 January 1995
.... That absorption, like the sense of identification with the stars is, however, precisely that: momentary. Emerging from the movie, the three also emerge into the light of social differences signalled by the workings of a vernacular sensibility: We...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 279–302.
Published: 01 May 2024
... suspected that the ink used may have been made of pollutant material. Recent philological and materialist studies of manuscript culture being done in early modern India have argued that the emergence of the vernacular language as a language capable of literary and intellectual deliberation drew...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 307–328.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of it at the Akademi, is a fairly straightforward example of the way literary writing in English is seen not only as being less authentic than vernacular, or bhasha literature,5 but also, more spe- cifically, as a betrayal of a particular linguistic community by one of its own. Writing in two languages raises...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 65–80.
Published: 01 January 2001
... on Czechoslovakia by the Prussian state. According to their reading, Kafka sub- verted the vehicular by freighting it with unwelcome baggage, from Yiddish inflections to scraps of Czech vernacular. Now, even if the newly edited and translated Malcolm Pasley and Mark Harman...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 87.
Published: 01 January 2021
... to a vernacular technique present in Chilean architecture but also to an element that distinguishes the broader region through the Spanish language: the letter ñ . The opposition between the concrete and the adobe elements defines a friction between what is local, proprietary, and representative of identity...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 7–8.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and explore what I refer to as “techno-vernacular creativity,” or TVC. TVC taps into the natural DIY inclinations of creative people as well as the educational power of inventing or making things using technology. This includes exploring the emergence of computation as a creative medium rather than as just...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 367–368.
Published: 01 September 2014
... resolution workshop. Drawing on a unique style of pedagogy based on academic credentials and moral superiority, the workshop, Kosmatopoulos contends, has come to be seen as the “absolute travel device,” deployable everywhere “without the need for translation into local vernaculars.” The issue’s first set...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 407–408.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for a perceived context of “persistent war.” The mass incarceration of mostly poor people of color in the United States is the backdrop for Nicole Fleetwood’s wise and affecting examination of vernacular photography and studio portraiture that take place inside US prisons. “Posing in Prison: Family Photographs...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 395–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... “These Remedies Are Not Last- ing,” Tilak’s article expounds a mode of violence, and of self-­making, detached from colonial industrialism. In short, he advocates a vernacular technology of small-­scale bomb making freed from the contamination of Zeugganze...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 279–288.
Published: 01 September 2023
... computational and social futures. Foster embraces an “anarchist squint” to intervene in contemporary debates about the promises and perils of artificial intelligence (AI). Drawing on James Scott's critique of modernist institutions for distorting and suppressing vernacular traditions, knowledges, and practices...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 532–548.
Published: 01 September 2004
... think the late geographer J. B. Jackson is far more relevant to our sit- uation here. He drew a distinction between political and vernacular land- scapes. This distinction was not to do with urban and rural landscapes but was rather a distinction in how landscapes are conceived and occupied...