Public Culture

An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Volume 20, Number 2

Issue 55, Spring 2008

Editor’s Letter
Claudio Lomnitz

Doxa at Large

Aesthetics of Catastrophe
Aric Mayer
History in a Glass
Andrew Wachtel

Spirit of Capitalism

Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa’s Age of AIDS
Rosalind C. Morris
Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future
Gustav Peebles
Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today
Rafael Sánchez

Photo-Essay

Shanghaiing the Future: A De-tour of the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Shiloh R. Krupar

Popular Culture, National Address

Critique of Popular Culture
Partha Chatterjee
Why Papua Wants Freedom: The Third Person in Contemporary Nationalism
Danilyn Rutherford

Doing Time

The Ki?m Tháo and the Uses of Disposable Time in the National Liberation Front
Duy Lap Nguyen
Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity
Neni Panourgiá

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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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