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Merve Emre

Merve Emre

Turkish author and academic

Oct 13, 2026

17:45
Yeah.
17:45
Um, and I, I think this gets back to the kind of schema that you were laying out for us because a, a public...
17:52
I mean, this audience is a public, right? You are, you are here as an embodied audience, but you are also the public whom I'm addressing my remarks to, right? But when I publish something in the review, that piece also has a public, and that public is instantiated by the circulation of the review.
18:14
So if you were to take those reviews home that Emily brought, and your partner were to pick it up and start reading it, they would be part of the public.
18:22
Of the review, and they would be part of the public of whoever the person is whose voice is addressing them from within those pages.
18:29
And that voice would have to have a distinctive, uh, style.
18:37
It would have to perform various acts of hospitality, like the two of you were talking about, adding context, taking a reader and drawing them in, making sure they're not lost, making sure they're entertained, making sure they're seduced.

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43:25
It takes all kinds.

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