An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

• Articles

  Featured from recent journal issues

  The Sublime Frequencies of New Old Media

  A new world of world music was built on Cambodian Rocks. The CD was released on the New York City–based Parallel World label in 1996, and for most listeners, it was hard to find anything else like it. The compilation collected tracks from a number of legendary 1960s Phnom Penh bar bands, most of whose members were executed by the Khmer Rouge soon after the recordings were made.

  • by David Novak
  • in Volume 23, Number 3

• Editor's Letter

  Public Culture is in the midst of a transition. The journal’s home has moved to the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. We have a new editorial collective, composed mainly of emerging leaders in anthropology, history, media studies, political science, sociology, and urban studies. We’ve introduced new features on the Public Culture website, including “Public Books,” a major initiative designed to promote debates around “big idea” books that deserve more timely and extensive critical attention than they get in traditional scholarly journals.

  • by Eric Klinenberg
  • in Volume 23, Number 3

• Patience, Inwardness, and Self-Knowledge in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj

  Patience is a peculiar quality, especially when viewed from a moral or political perspective. By itself it appears to have no moral or political content, in the ways that telling the truth and treating people fairly clearly do.

  • by Uday S. Mehta
  • in Volume 23, Number 2

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