Commodifying Disability as an Experience
Figure 1: The entrance of the museum at the metro station reads, “Learning is possible through encounters.” Multisensory Encounters with the “Others” Since February 2023, I hav…
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Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution – review
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Amin Ghaziani charts the transformation of LGBTQ+ nightlife in recent decades amid venue closures and gentrification, focusing on London. Through a blend of personal anec…
Writing Life No. 19: An Interview with Jason Pine by Jason Pine
Figure 1 (Jason): Writing is painful for me. I do TRX Suspension Training with an amazing online and affordable personal trainer/physical therapist (email me and I’ll give you…
New Book from Ingrid Stefanovic – The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
This is a great looking new title edited by Ingrid Stefanovic here with the University of Toronto Press. Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly…
Re-enacting memories by Elinor Ochs
One way to ‘think with dementia’ is to phenomenologically shift from ‘memory’ to ‘remembering’ and to mine ‘remembering’ for its qualities and potentialities as socio-culturally limned experience. Whe…
A Journey to Experience: Tanzania-Kenya-Uganda
Door Ottla Lange In my first week of studying cultural Anthropology I had been told to write down everything I observe, when in a new or…
Occasional Paper 6: Destructivistas
Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes…
The Beach – A Frontier of Nostalgia
by Duane Jethro The beach is a place of waste and ruin. Rotting seaweed, stinking dead seals, cracked and crushed shells, deflated bluebottles, fat blobs of translucent jellyfish…