Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Public Modalities, or the Metaphors We Theorize
1. Pragmatist Publicity: W.E.B. Du Bois and the New Negro Movement
2. “VIII. Lowghost Publicity, or, My Vocabulary Did This To Me”
3. Everyday Life and Death in a Nuclear World
4. The Ownership Society, or Bourgeois Publicity Revisited
5. (In)Hospitable Publics: Theorizing Modalities of Access to U.S. Publics
6. Eyeing New Publics: Veiling and the Performance of Civic Visibility
7. Mediating Modalities: Practicing Popular Politics
8. Citizenship, Freedom, and the Family: Public Access through Private Modalities
9. Risibility Politics: Camp Humor in HIV/AIDS Zines
10. The Vernacular Mode: Locating the Non-institutional in the Practice of Citizenship
Contributors
Index