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Chapter 14 - Intimacy, Identity, and the Nation

from Part II - Affective Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2023

Ana Peluffo
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Ronald Briggs
Affiliation:
Barnard College, New York
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Summary

Elizabeth Povinelli has asserted that what she calls “the intimate event,” as construed by modern, Western societies, “is a semiotic operation that creates a subject, produces multiple linkages between that subject, its economy, and government, and governs the operation of these linkages” (192).

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Print publication year: 2022

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