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Seo-Young Chu deposited Jogakpo Window (7 feet x 4 feet) in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMaterials: glass, sunlight, post-it notes. Image description: Photographs show a large window covered with a 조각보 patchwork of colorful post-it notes. Sunlight illuminates the paper.
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Are Postmodernism and #MeToo Incompatible? in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoIf postmodernism renders the replicant Rachael legible as a glossy simulacrum, then #MeToo renders her brutally legible as a victim of sexual violence.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited स्वर कोकिला लता मंगेशकर के सामाजिक और राजनैतिक सरोकार in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoपार्श्व गायिका लता मंगेशकर ने लगभग सात दशकों तक भारतीय संगीत की दुनिया पर राज किया। उनके गाए गीत भारत में ही नहीं, पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश समेत कई देशों में पसंद किए जाते थे। इस लेख में उनके सामाजिक सरोकारों और राजनीतिक रुझानों की चर्चा की गई है। उनका वैचारिक जुड़ाव राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ से था, जो कि अपनी नाजीवादी विचारधारा…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Mahishasur A people’s hero in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis is the English edition of the book ‘Mahishasur: Ek Jannayak’. The book searches for a hero who has been ever-present in the memories, traditions, festivals, and celebrations of a majority of the people of India but who the dominant culture of the country has given the image of a villain. Recently, the search for this people’s hero triggered a…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited समय से संवाद: जन विकल्प संचयिता in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years ago‘समय से संवाद: जनविकल्प संचयिता’ नाम यह पुस्तक हिंदी मासिक ‘जन विकल्प’ में प्रकाशित प्रतिनिधि सामग्री का संकलन है। प्रेमकुमार मणि और प्रमोद रंजन के संपादन में पटना से वर्ष 2007 में प्रकाशित इस पत्रिका की जनपक्षधरता, निष्पक्षता और मौलिक त्वरा ने समाजकर्मियों और बुद्धिजीवियों को गहराई से आलोड़ित किया था। इस पुस्तक में जिन लेखों और साक्षात्कारों…[Read more]
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Cindy Maguire started the topic The Arts and Culture for Global Development Community in the discussion
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoHello to those of you who’ve joined our network of practice group. We are still in the design phase of getting our site up and running. We anticipate a launch by this spring. We appreciate your interest in the network and look forward to the unfolding conversation. Cindy and Ann
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I’m sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the “uncanny body politic,” the uncanny valley, “dystopian poetics,” what it means…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley” in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoIn “I, Stereotype,” Seo-Young Chu applies Mori’s theory of the uncanny valley not to robots but to a different species of humanoid artifact: stereotypes of the “yellow peril.” Through analyses of stories by Sax Rohmer, World War Two propaganda, and films from the Bond franchise, Chu investigates ways in which the logic of the uncanny valley has…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Hwabyung Fragments in the group
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn “Hwabyung Fragments” the Korean American poet Seo-Young Chu uses pieces of Korean mythology, family lore, DMZ iconography, speculative lyricism, allusions to Plato’s Symposium (the figure of one’s missing other half), and allusions to chimerism, mosaicism, and twinning to explore generational trauma, Korean division, postmemory han, the…[Read more]
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Ann Holt started the topic arts based activity- Book Launch Author Gathering 5/2022- Feel free to respond! in the discussion
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn relation to your experience thinking about your work and being immersed in the writing of your part of the book, if you were an animal (real or imagined), what kind of animal would you be? Where would you live? what kind of environment would you be in?
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Ann Holt replied to the topic All about the book in the discussion
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHello!
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Cindy Maguire started the topic All about the book in the discussion
Arts and Culture for Global Development on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agohello all