| Spring 2014 | Edited by Paula M. Gardner and Charles Reeve When culture responds to trauma, it seems self-evident that three mechanisms are involved: the event, the trauma it provokes, and the cultural response. But what if that is backwards? What if trauma is itself a cultural production, borne of a need for societies […]
Join us for a talk by Franco Berardi to celebrate and launch PUBLIC’s 50th issue: The Retreat. Berardi will give a talk on Dark Zest Geist Dystopia and Self Fulfilling Prophecy: Imagination and the Narration of the Future in Contemporary Literature and Cinema. PUBLIC is celebrating its 50th issue in Fall 2014. Called The Retreat, […]
READ MOREOur new media kit is now available: PUBLIC Media Kit Now making ad bookings for issue 50: The Retreat, a Special Anniversary issue, edited by Sarah Blacker, Imre Szeman and Heather Zwicker produced in partnership with Documenta (13) and Banff Research in Culture (BRiC). Contributors include: Franco ‘Bifo’ Beradi, Bruno Bosteels, Catherine Malabou, Heather Anderson, […]
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