Postmodern Warfare

[Dave Monroe]

Warner, Michael.  Publics and Counterpublics.
   New York: Zone Books, 2002.

"Most of the people around us belong to our world not
directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do
we recognize them as members of our world? We are
related to them as transient participants in common
publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly
impossible to imagine a social world without publics.
In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner
addresses the question: What is a public?

"According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of
the central fictions of modern life. Publics have
powerful implications for how our social world takes
shape, and much of modern life involves struggles over
the nature of publics and their interrelations. The
idea of a public contains ambiguities, even
contradictions. As it is extended to new contexts,
politics, and media, its meaning changes in ways that
can be difficult to uncover.

"Combining historical analysis, theoretical
reflection, and extensive case studies, Warner shows
how the idea of a public can reframe our understanding
of contemporary literary works and politics and of our
social world in general. In particular, he applies the
idea of a public to the junction of two intellectual
traditions: public-sphere theory and queer theory."

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