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Publics and Counterpublics
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The idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life as mentioned in this paper, and it has powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern lives involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations.Abstract:
Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public?According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations. The idea of a public contains ambiguities, even contradictions. As it is extended to new contexts, politics, and media, its meaning changes in ways that can be difficult to uncover.Combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extensive case studies, Warner shows how the idea of a public can reframe our understanding of contemporary literary works and politics and of our social world in general. In particular, he applies the idea of a public to the junction of two intellectual traditions: public-sphere theory and queer theory.read more
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The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: An Analysis of Nation, Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora
TL;DR: Kim et al. as mentioned in this paper traced the origins of the Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex (TAC) and traced the origin of the market in children in the early 1990s.
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Pictorial Representations of British America Resisting Rape: Rhetorical Re-Circulation of a Print Series Portraying the Boston Port Bill of 1774
TL;DR: The authors traces the re-circulation of one eighteenth-century print to argue that, despite the seemingly stable surface imagery, the composition's migration across place, time, and medium affected the eventfulness and timeliness of its contingent meanings and the shifting terrain of its rhetorical usages.
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The self-conscious artist and the politics of art: from institutional critique to underground cinema
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the current debates about political art or aesthetic politics do not take the politics of art into account, and propose a sustainable and uncompromised art practice.
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Comfort, irony, and trivialization: The mediation of torture
TL;DR: In this article, the interrelationship of torture and comfort as a key feature of the United States project of American Empire is examined, examining how the U.S. practice of torture is mediated in American culture, in particular through distancing strategies of domestication, trivialization, kitschification, and irony.
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On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology: An introduction to Supplement 12
TL;DR: A special issue as mentioned in this paper brings together anthropologists and social scientists working in health, museology, media, and cultural studies to interrogate secrets and secrecy, the private and the public, in diverse yet interrelated domains and national contexts.
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The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society
Jürgen Habermas,Thomas Burgerm +1 more
TL;DR: A preliminary demarcation of a type of Bourgeois public sphere can be found in this article, where the authors remark on the type representative publicness on the genesis of the Bourgois Public Sphere.
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
TL;DR: Althusser's "For Marx" (1965) and "Reading Capital" (1968) had an enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship as mentioned in this paper.
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Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
TL;DR: Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig shows how code can make a domain, site, or network free or restrictive; how technological architectures influence people's behavior and the values they adopt; and how changes in code can have damaging consequences for individual freedoms.