Publics and counterpublics / Michael Warner.

Author
Warner, Michael, 1958- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2002.
Description
334 pages ; 24 cm

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        "By combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extended case studies, Publics and Counterpublics shows how the idea of a public works as a formal device in modern culture and traces its implications for contemporary life. Michael Warner offers a revisionist account at the junction of two intellectual traditions with which he has been associated: public-sphere theory and queer theory. To public-sphere theory, this book brings a new emphasis on cultural forms, and a new focus on the dynamics of counterpublics. To queer theory, it brings a new way of seeing how queer culture (among other examples) is shaped by the counter-public environment"--Jacket.
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-329) and index.
        Contents
        • Public and private
        • Publics and counterpublics
        • Styles of intellectual publics
        • The mass public and the mass subject
        • Sex in public / Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner
        • Something queer about the nation-state
        • A soliloquy "lately spoken at the African Theatre" : race and the public sphere in New York City, 1821
        • Whitman Drunk.
        ISBN
        • 1890951285 ((cloth))
        • 9781890951283 ((cloth))
        • 1890951293
        • 9781890951290
        LCCN
        2001043527
        OCLC
        47849465
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