زشت و زیبای ِ اکو
مفاهیم «زشتی» و «زیبایی» با همین واژگان و یا واژگانی و مفاهیمی مشابه یکی از ساختارهایی بود‌ه‌اند که از قدیمی ترین دوره ها تا امروز، دوگانه «خود »…
معرفی کتاب ذهن و همه‌چیز
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مجید رُهبانی آنچه بر من گذشت: خاطرات عارف (علی) پاینده. به کوشش محمدحسین خسروپناه. تهران: نشر اختران، ۱۳۹۹. ۶۰۸ ص. مصوّر. ۹۵۰۰۰۰ ریال. در منابع تاریخ‌نگاری معاصر ایران،…
سا ل های تاکسی رانی در غربت (۲)
سال ۱۹۸۲، که برای بار دوم تازه وارد آمریکا شده بودم، دنبال کار بودم تا این که یکروز یک آگهی دیدم که در دانشگاه تاوسون نجاری یاد می…
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Hi all, I am fortunate to have such a great & generous network! Giulio from NRC, Khalifa & Ragy from the Dignified Storytelling Alliance plus Val from Amnesty…
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På en kaffepaus hade vi (igen) en intressant diskussion med personalen. Från att tala om fiktiva personer som anmäldes till evenemang eller föreläsningar för att uppfylla kvoter, eller…
Shannon Mattern, “A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we…
Do Queer Muslims Need Saving?
Image by the anonymous artist Queer Habibi Disclaimer: This is a reworked paper, originally written for a course called “Post-Colonial Perspectives on Audiovisual Media” at Stockholm University, i…
Shoah (Parte I)
Read Time:14 Minute, 0 Second Como sociedad, muchas veces nos hemos preguntado cómo pudo tener lugar el Holocausto. Los genocidios …
Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora
“Lead Me to Life” Carla Keaton In 2020, George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, flared a global nerve. Black Lives Matter protestors…
Elder
[no-caption] Pixabay/Pexels “Elder” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. We don’t talk…
World Rhino Day
The great Pachyderms (obsolete taxonomic category of old) – I’ve written about Ganda the rhino who circumnavigates Africa, from Gujurat to Marseilles in 1515, a gift from Sultan…
Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, “Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are…
Gayatri Nair, “Set Adrift: Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai’s Shores” (Oxford UP, 2021)
The Koli community in Mumbai-which has been practicing fishing for centuries-has experienced rapid changes over the last few decades, in the forms of increased mechanization, export of fish…
Esterilizaciones forzadas en Perú: la mujer como instrumento
Read Time:12 Minute, 1 Second Durante los años 1990 y 2000, Alberto Fujimori fue el presidente de Perú. Fujimori entró en el gobier…
Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Just Buzzwords?
What is the value of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work in the current scientific-technological context? To what extent do collaborative practices present a changing setting for research in …
JSTOR Books Directory
It’s very difficult to navigate the selection of publishers on JSTOR Books, so here are some links to common publishers which will save me (and perhaps you?) some…
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Cocina en el Instititut Mental de la Santa Creu de Barcelona Reseña de Stultifera navis. La locura, el poder y la ciudad, de Josep Maria Comelles (Milenio, Barcelona,…
Five Human Species You May Not Know About
We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not so long ago in our evolutionary history, multiple…
El genocidio de “Papa Doc” y su legado de muerte lenta de la población y la democracia de Haití
Read Time:10 Minute, 35 Second Jean Francois Duvalier, mejor conocido como “Papa Doc”, ejerció de dictador de Haití desde 1957 (ini…
#PoliticalEngagements: Punctuation and Flow
The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational events, unexpected events, catastrophic events. From climate change…