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Publisher: Christine Bonneton
Keywords: publics, ã©crivains, les
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2000-03-02
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ISBN-10: 2862532592
ISBN-13: 9782862532592
Author: Michael Warner
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: counterpublics, publics
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1890951285
ISBN-13: 9781890951283
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 involve
Author: Beth E. Kolko
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: publics, virtual
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 2003-04-15
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0231118279
ISBN-13: 9780231118279
How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online since before Netscape and a graphical World Wide Web; thus they have a thorough understanding of the cultural shifts the Internet has produced and been affected by, and they have a keen appreciation for the potential of the medium. Most scholarship on cyberculture has repeatedly emphasized that our offline selves determine how we are able to use technology, that real life affects what we do online.
Author: Kurt Iveson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: book, series, ibg, rgs, city, publics
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-22
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1405127309
ISBN-13: 9781405127301
Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of ‘public spaces’ has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory. Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city Argues that a city’s contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering Examines a series of detailed case studies Looks at the relationship between urbanism, public spheres, and democracy
Author: Stefan Collini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: publics, historians, critics, reading, common
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199296782
ISBN-13: 9780199296781
In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Collini focuses on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership. Among the critics discussed are Cyril Connolly, V.S. Pritchett, Aldous Huxley, Rebecca West, Edmund Wilson, and George Orwell, while the historians include A.L. Rowse, Arthur Bryant, E.H. Carr, and E.P. Thompson. There are
Authors:Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess, and E. Stina Lyon, Chr
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Keywords: publics, intellectuals
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0754675408
ISBN-13: 9780754675402
How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position?This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life. The volume opens with provocative essays on the idea and role of the public intellectual from Alexander, Evans and Zulaika. It includes chapters from Rabinbach on intellectuals’ responses to totalitari
Author: Joshua Goldstei
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: peking, opera, creation, publics, kings, players, drama
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520247523
ISBN-13: 9780520247529
In this colorful and detailed history, Joshua Goldstein describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its subsequent rise and re-creation as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China. Providing a fascinating look into the lives of some of the opera’s key actors, he explores their methods for earning a living; their status in an ever-changing society; the methods by which theaters functioned; the nature and content of performances; audience make-up; and the larger relationship between Peking opera and Chinese nationalism. Propelled by a synergy of
