In Río de Niebla, Río de Adobe, Río de Sangre (2023–2024), an exhibition by Tania Ximena (Mexico, 1986), the artist invites viewers to inhabit a shifting territory, moving from [...]
The crown jewel of the musical canon, Beethoven’s Ninth (with its spectacular “Ode to Joy” finale) is so apparently overburdened with meaning that Slavoj Žižek (2007) describes it as [...]
The anthropological scholarship on rumors tends to focus on their role as emergent and propulsive in times of political and social disturbance, with the potential to be instrumentalized to [...]
Zheng Chong-xiao 鄭崇孝 is a Taiwanese painter born in Taipei in 1988 whose artistic practice includes the use of the imagery of traditional Chinese landscape painting (or shanshuihua 山水畫) [...]
Alleys littered with flyers, cardboard boxes, topped-over beer bottles, and empty sardine cans—the refuse of the streets accessorize Hong Kong’s cityscape in Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express. Its intertwining storyline [...]
Kashmir, which received global attention recently for bringing the countries of India and Pakistan to the brink of a major war, has been a much-contested area and the site [...]
Stefania Pandolfo’s Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from Moroccan Space of Memory (1997) and Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star (1977) are strikingly similar texts coming from different [...]
Pixelated Game Over screen on an oversized PAC-MAN arcade machine. Photo from Unsplash. In his 1986 New York Times article, “Storytelling Among the Anthropologists,” anthropologist Richard A. [...]
As an accompaniment to the recently published 25th Anniversary interview between Samiri Hernández Hiraldo and Jorge Duany, celebrating Duany’s article “Nation on the Move: The Construction of Cultural Identities [...]
It was the autumn of 2021. As I walked through the crowded streets on that gloomy day in Milan, I held my umbrella to protect my leather notebook containing [...]
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