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Publics and counterpublics /

"By combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extended case studies, Publics and Counterpublics shows how the idea of a public works as a formal device in modern culture and traces its implications for contemporary life. Michael Warner offers a revisionist account at the juncti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Warner, Michael, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge, Mass. : Zone Books ; Distributed by MIT Press, 2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Public and Private
  • II. Publics and Counterpublics
  • III. Styles of Intellectual Publics
  • IV. The Mass Public and the Mass Subject
  • V. Sex in Public: Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner
  • VI. Something Queer About the Nation-State
  • VII. A Soliloquy "Lately Spoken at the African Theatre": Race and the Public Sphere in New York City, 1821
  • VIII. Whitman Drunk
  • Notes
  • Index