Debates and Controversies

Achille Mbembe

The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony
Public Culture 4(2): 1-30 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-1 [PDF]  

Robert J. Foster

Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation in Papua New Guinea
Public Culture 4(2): 31-45 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-31 [PDF] [References]  

Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Death of History? Historical Consciousness and the Culture of Late Capitalism
Public Culture 4(2): 47-65 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-47 [PDF]  

Janelle S. Taylor

The Public Fetus and the Family Car: From Abortion Politics to a Volvo Advertisement
Public Culture 4(2): 67-80 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-67 [PDF]  

Homi Bhabha

Race and the Humanities: The "Ends" of Modernity?
Public Culture 4(2): 81-85 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-81 [PDF]  

Engulfment

David Prochaska

"Disappearing" Iraqis
Public Culture 4(2): 89-92 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-89 [PDF]  

Susan Slyomovics

Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War
Public Culture 4(2): 93-99 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-93 [PDF]  

Robert Stam

Mobilizing Fictions: The Gulf War, the Media and the Recruitment of the Spectator
Public Culture 4(2): 101-126 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-101 [PDF]  

Victor J. Caldarola

Time and the Television War
Public Culture 4(2): 127-136 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-127 [PDF]  

Observations and Comment

John F. Sherry

Unter Den Linden, Madison and Mine; Meditation on a Fragment of the Berlin Wall
Public Culture 4(2): 139-140 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-139 [PDF]  

Ben Gerson

Comment on "Voices of the Rainforest"
Public Culture 4(2): 141-142 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-141 [PDF]  

Bill Maurer

Striking Out Gender: Getting to First Base with Bill Brown
Public Culture 4(2): 143-147 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-143 [PDF] [References]  

Bill Brown

A Response to Bill Maurer
Public Culture 4(2): 149-156 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-149 [PDF]  

Miscellany

Miscellany
Public Culture 4(2): 157-161 (1992); DOI:10.1215/08992363-4-2-157 [PDF]  

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