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Lauren Berlant
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 66
Citations - 8637
Lauren Berlant is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Queer. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 61 publications receiving 7498 citations.
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The queen of America goes to Washington city : essays on sex and citizenship
TL;DR: The Queen of America goes to Washington City as discussed by the authors, a book about the U.S. public sphere, argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere and questions why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts.
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Sex in Public
Lauren Berlant,Michael Warner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a paper called "Sex in Public" explores the relationship between pornography, phone sex, "adult" markets for print, lap dancing, and pornography as mediated by publics.
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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
TL;DR: The Female Complaint as discussed by the authors explores the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public" in the United States, a women's culture distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory.
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Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)
TL;DR: The body as accumulation strategy of David Harvey as mentioned in this paper is a polemic that is a call for precision, not a way of drowning out the productive destructiveness of capital, and it is not to devalue Harvey's profound contributions to understanding the destructive power of capital.
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Intimacy: A Special Issue
TL;DR: The secret epitaph of intimacy is "I didn't think it would turn out this way" as discussed by the authors, which is the secret meaning of "I hope it will turn out in a particular way".