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Writing about the formation of publics in and through the circulation of texts, literary and social theorist Michael Warner points out that __publics are not materially defined groups of people but attentional communities that exist “by virtue of being addressed” (2002, 67).__ Publics, Warner writes, “are virtual entities, not voluntary associations” (88). They are not groups of gathered individuals, but “imaginary” and “in principle open-ended” (73) entities that exist wherever a text invites an individual to pay attention to it.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Zoom in on them, then hit “search here” and see what restaurants come up. Start reading the reviews. If they have like 50 reviews, not 5,000, most not in English, that’s a pretty good sign.
How to Travel
walkingtheworld.substack.com
Hundreds of years ago, the Japanese language included words for only four basic colors: black, white, red, and blue. If you wanted to describe something green, you’d use the word for blue—“ao”—and that system worked well enough until roughly the end of the first millennium, when the word “midori” (originally meaning “sprout”) began showing up in writing to describe what we know as green. Even then, midori was considered a shade of ao.
This Is Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green
rd.com
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