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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
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NY, for me, has always been about the people. In my 20s it was also a bit about the texture — the incredible, rich, stone-built texture to it all. I stood in constant, delighted, wonder. Sam mentioned how he was walking near Washington Square Park with a professor after arriving in New York and asked him if he ever got tired of this — this vaulted endless wow. I’m still saying wow, all these years later. Mainly in contrast to Tokyo’s relatively demure landscape of steel and glass, little stone. (Stones and quakes don’t mix well.) But the texture was just a bonus, the people were always primary.
New York City — Roden Newsletter Issue 079
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