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An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Volume 20, Number 3

Issue 56, Fall 2008

Editor’s Letter
Claudio Lomnitz

Doxa at Large

The Roots of the Darfur Conflict and the Chadian Civil War
Roland Marchal

Exchange

Detranscendentalizing the Secular
Stathis Gourgouris
Is Critique Secular? A Symposium at UC Berkeley
Saba Mahmood
Antisecularist Failures: A Counterresponse to Saba Mahmood
Stathis Gourgouris
Secular Imperatives?
Saba Mahmood

Translation

Health: Crude Concept and Philosophical Question
Georges Canguilhem

The Nation Projected

Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar
Shannon Mattern
A Proliferation of Pigs: Specters of Monstrosity in Reformation Indonesia
Nancy Florida

Dossier on RETORT's Afflicted Powers

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle, and Modernity
Alex Jeffrey, Colin McFarlane, and Alex Vasudevan
Beyond Image and Reality: Critique and Resistance in the Age of Spectacle
David Campbell
The Death Wish of Modernity and the Politics of Mimesis
Cindi Katz
Pleasures of the Polemic
Gearóid Ó Tuathail
The Spectacle Today: A Response to RETORT
W. J. T. Mitchell
The Totality for Grownups
RETORT

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Volume 20, Number 3 Cover

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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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