Description
If the twentieth century has beendominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in thetwenty-first century, we must complicate the singularity of that paradigm andstart thinking of our world in terms of multiple, overlapping, and competing publics. In three distinct streams—art,media and technology, and the intimate life—this volume offers up theintellectual and political significance of thinking through the plurality ofour publics. “Countering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space,” explores howdifferent artistic practices articulate the challenges and desires of multiplepublics. “Making and Shaping Publics: Discourse and Technology” showcases howmedia shape publics, and how new and emerging publics use these technologies toconstruct identities. “Commodifying Public Intimacies” examines what happens tothe notion of the private when intimacies structure publics, move into publicspaces, and develop value that can be exchanged and circulated.
Table of Contents
1.Introduction:The Plurality of Publics P. DAVID MARSHALL.- Part I.Countering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space.- 2.The Beach Beneath the Street: Art and Counterpublic GLENN D’CRUZ.- 3.A Hungry Public: Stranger Relationality and the Blak Wave FELICITY COLLINS.- 4.Re-membering, (Re-) appropriation and Polyphony: SBS Independent and White Australian Memory AMANDA MALEL TREVISANUT.- 5.Ghosting: Putting the Volume into Screen Memory PAUL CARTER.- 6.Dancing Dandenong: The Poetics of Spatial Politics GLENN D’CRUZ, SHAUN MCLEOD, DIRK DE BRUYN, STEVEN MCINTYRE.- 7.New Strategies for Old Practices CAMERON BISHOP.- Part II.Making and Shaping Publics: Discourse and Technology.- 8.Media Technologies and Publics SHARYN MCDONALD.- 9.Cosmopolitanism on Demand? Television and the Narrowing of Mediated Social Connection PAUL ATKINSON, REBECCA STRATING.- 10.Multilingual Publics: Fansubbing Global TV TESSA DWYER.- 11.Surveillance Publics after Edward Snowden MICHAEL RICHARDSON.- 12.Stoking Expectations: Public Relations and the Politics of “Bogans” KRISTIN DEMETRIOUS.- 13.We Are Rhetoric. Get Over It! STEVE MACKEY.- Part III.Commodifying Public Intimacies.- 14.Making Cents of Contemporary Intimacies: The Private in the Public KATJA LEE.- 15.When the Private Becomes Public: Commodity Activism, Endorsement and Making Meaning in a Privatised World P. DAVID MARSHALL.- 16.Elite Athletes as Charitable Ambassadors: Risks Associated with Indiscretions SHARYN MCDONALD.- 17.The Intimate Publics of Popular Music Memoirs: Strategies of Feeling in Celebrity Self-Representation KATJA LEE.- 18.Spirited Publics? Post-secularism, Enchantment and Enterprise on Indian Television TANIA LEWIS
