Public Culture, Issue 15:2

Spring 2003

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Public Culture

Due/Published May 2003, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 9990132054

This issue includes: Harry S. Garuba on animist materialism; Sarah S. Lochlann Jain on race and the semiotics of smoking menthols; John D. Kelly on discourses of U.S. power; David Pedersen on commodities and commensurability; Janet Roitman on debt in Northern Cameroon; George Steinmetz on capitalism and imperialism; a visual essay by Arnold Mesches; and more.

Contents

Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon - Janet Roitman

As Irrational As Bert and Bin Laden: The Production of Categories, Commodities, and Commensurability in the Era of Globalization - David Pedersen

Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society - Harry Garuba

The FBI Files - Arnold Mesches

"Come Up to the Kool Taste": African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols - Sarah S. Lochlann Jain

The State of Emergency and the Revival of American Imperialism: Toward an Authoritarian Post-Fordism - George Steinmetz

U.S. Power, after 9/11 and before It: If Not an Empire, Then What? - John D. Kelly

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