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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 581–600.
Published: 01 September 2019
... as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike , and a video project by human rights organization Reprieve featuring artist Yasiin Bey simulating the “proper” techniques...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 January 2004
... are on popular culture, media, national politics, and race in West Africa. From Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Saidou Mohamed N’Daou Jesse...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., connecting themes here: forms of temporality, media and visual technologies, and conceptions of the body. Reading this issue with war on our minds, we ask how the discursive stakes, shifts, and ruptures explored in these essays might lift the veil on processes that are quotidian and ongoing even...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 147–184.
Published: 01 January 2006
...George Steinmetz; Julia Hell © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 P h o t o - e s s ay The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia George Steinmetz and Julia Hell...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 January 1990
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 451–455.
Published: 01 September 1993
... , Yitzhak . 1988 . “On Flags, Holiness, and Respect.” Flag Summer Exhibition—Y. Yoresh—The Israel Museum . Jerusalem. Visual Nationalism: On Looking at “National Symbols” Virginia R. Dominguez 1n the summer...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 205–211.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Allison Carruth; Robert P. Marzec This special issue of Public Culture explores forms of environmental image making and visualization in the context of the Anthropocene. The essays aim to spark dialogue about how visual technologies and media—from satellite imaging and military simulation...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 213–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Nicholas Mirzoeff This essay examines how the Anthropocene era caused by climate change has been visualized in art from the major industrial powers and how a countervisuality to it might be created. 2014 Anthropocene is the name given by scientists to the new era in geology caused by human...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 233–255.
Published: 01 May 2014
... visualizations of performative environmental protests that took place in June 2012 against the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil. It claims that these visualizations are governed by a particular ontology that has its origins in the military and colonial activity of turning landscapes, and environments in general...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 319–337.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Heather Houser Information visualizations (or “infovis”) have become a ubiquitous cultural form in the digital age. Environmental artists and activists increasingly trust in the ability of infovis to produce knowledge about environmental issues and to promote audience engagement. But does infovis...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 27–51.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the visualization of border lines and their crossings is enacted. More specifically, we seek to conceptualize the visual infrastructure through which border lines and movement lines are drawn, deployed, and authorized. We show how deceptibility and a dispersal of identity documents are constitutive of the specific...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 469–500.
Published: 01 September 2014
... that these claims would provoke in his audience. “How do I know that?” he asked. “How can I say that?” Heir to a deep humanist tradition of visual truth-telling, Powell’s answer to these questions came in the form of pictures: requesting to “let me give you a closer look,” Powell offered his audience aerial...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 185–213.
Published: 01 January 2020
... were required to furnish a photograph of themselves dressed in swimwear. Taking its cue from this historic example, this study traces the evolution of a phenomenon the author describes as state-incriminating, coproduced archives, visual archives that are coproduced by representatives of the legal...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 601–622.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Paul Crosthwaite; Peter Knight; Nicky Marsh This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 43–48.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., certain key words of the preamble are legible—among them fraternity , equality , and the statement through which the nation is constituted as a community using the collective pronoun we . The four works presented in this Visual Interlude are mixed-media drawings on paper that overlay the text...
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Published: 01 September 2020
Figure 7 The trope of temporal stasis in Kashmiri visual production. Painting by Maria Shahmiri. More
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Published: 01 September 2020
Figure 5 The trope of temporal stasis in Kashmiri visual production. Mir Suhail’s cartoon depicts the weekly days of the calendar as a row of tombs, in the shadow of a gun labeled “India.” More
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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 2 “Smog visuals” from the October 30, 2016, Twitter feed of Asian News International More
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 309–331.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Brett Ommen As visual images increasingly cover the façade of social space and public life, the utility of these surfaces-of-display must be examined beyond displayed content. The preponderance of surfaces says something about the publics that stand before the invitation of visual communication...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 175–209.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of political propaganda commissioned by the Estado Novo in the early 1940s ( Obra Getuliana ); and contemporary images of Rio de Janeiro favela dwellers taken by the inhabitants of the favelas themselves as part of the communitarian projects of “visual inclusion.” While examining these photographs, we find...