Editors' Letter: A Critique of Pure Dumbfoundedness.

The article reports that Public Culture to the world of immediacies beyond Euro-American horizons with critical reflections that privilege suppressed minorities to the arts of catastrophe, from public secrets to secret publics, from post-grid sovereignties to vitalized sexualities. Topics include meditations on incalculable costs to reckoning with unpayable debts; and the U.S. military withdrawal from its twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan.