Grégoire Espesset
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Dora Apel deposited War Culture and the Contest of Images (Introduction) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images.…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls: Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
This essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. I argue that the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group
Advocating for the Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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The spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Beautiful Terrible Ruins, Introduction in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoOnce the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and tel…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoInterview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoInterview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoInterview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar
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Dora Apel deposited Beautiful Terrible Ruins, Introduction on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and tel…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited The Migrant Image: The Fear of “Replacement” and the Resurgence of White Nationalism on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Barack Obama oversaw an increase in the apprehension and deportation of almost three million undocumented immigrants, more than any other president so far. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president after repeatedly calling migrants “drug dealers,” “rapists,” and “criminals,” even though evidence shows that immigration correlates with lower crime…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Calling Memory into Place, Introduction on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar
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Dora Apel's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]
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