Post-modernism

“মঁসিয়ে ফুকোর Statistics” [Statistics and Foucault]

by Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay

1998-99. “মঁসিয়ে ফুকোর Statistics” Kolkata: Indian Statistical Institute Club. (pp.74-77)

Statistical works, quantitative surveys are criticized from Foucauldian ethical standpoints. Statistical works, quantitative surveys are criticized from Foucauldian ethical standpoints.

Who Is Truth? Correspondence Theory and God the Son

by Antonio Arsenal

Review of: Emmanuel Rubio, Towards a Cathartic Architecture

by Denis Bocquet

Published in: Il Giornale dell'arcbitettura, 104, April 2012, p.28

A review of: Vers une architecture cathartique (1945-2011) by Emmanuel Rubio, Paris, Donner Lieu, 2011, 325p.
more A review of: Vers une architecture cathartique (1945-2011) by Emmanuel Rubio, Paris, Donner Lieu, 2011, 325p.

Key words:

Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, James Wines, brutalism, World War II, Cold War, Hiroshima, Kenzo Tange, Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, Ring, Vienna, Wien, Biedermaier, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Dresden, Berlin, Behnisch, Le Corbusier, London, brutalismo, brutalista, Eisenman, Foster, Giulio Romano, Mantova, Mantoue, teoria dell'architettura, architecture theory, théorie

Trade Softly Because You Trade on My Dreams: a Paradisal Prolegomenon

by Anthony Patterson

Éris e o ethos religioso: o conceito contemporâneo de religião em Florianópolis

by Peterson Silva

Co-autora: Maria de Fátima Goulart Capela

Neste trabalho procuramos compreender o atual conceito de religião em Florianópolis tendo em mente o discordianismo.... more Neste trabalho procuramos compreender o atual conceito de religião em Florianópolis tendo em mente o discordianismo. Pesquisamos o conceito de religião e suas transformações ao longo da história, além de pontos de vista acadêmicos recentes sobre o tema. Mostramos a influência do modo de vida contemporâneo na forma como se pode ver a religião, e apresentamos o discordianismo, seus principais conceitos, mitos e valores. Realizamos entrevistas semi-direcionadas para tentar compreender o conceito de religião entre os entrevistados e analisamos os resultados das entrevistas de maneira a linear tal conceito. Utilizamos como norte teórico não apenas o discordianismo como ferramenta de contraste que, no contexto da entrevista e da análise de seus resultados, nos permite um aprofundamento do debate em torno do conceito que buscamos, mas também Max Weber e sua sociologia compreensiva. Concluímos que o conceito de religião, para os entrevistados, envolve os conceitos de autoridade, instituição e liderança moral, embora coexistam certas características próprias da pós-modernidade na conceitualização do termo.

'WHITHER MARXISM?': a review of Gregor McLennan, Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond

by Kevin Magill

Scroll to p. 40 in pdf. Published in Radical Philosophy, 61, Summer 1992.

Thoughts on Originality and Appropriation: Sherrie Levine's Early Photographic Endevors

by Javier Ortega-Alvarez

"Looking Back at the Donald Barthelme Workshops"

by Teresa Burns

_Gulf Coast_ put this edition out right after Donald Barthelme died, and much of the issue is writing and artwork by and about Don Barthelme.

Memoir of the writer's experience in Barthelme's workshops... written a LONG time ago. Memoir of the writer's experience in Barthelme's workshops... written a LONG time ago.

Concepts of Modernity and Nation in Malayalam Literature

by Manu Sudhakar Kurup

The communities represented in fiction are, necessarily, imagined communities; but if a novel is a... more
The communities represented in fiction are, necessarily, imagined communities; but if a novel is a representation of an imagined community then so, as many recent writers have argued, are our ideas of nationhood. The nation, that is, is not a material entity like a country or a state. It is an invisible and (at least partly) theoretical construction which elicits powerful emotional and imaginative identifications.


The idea of nation and how colonial modernity brought that in is an interesting thing to discuss. This essay is about the beginning of post-Modernism in Malayalam Novel and how it responds to the question of nation.

Modernism and Modernity in Malayalam Fiction

by Manu Sudhakar Kurup

Research Work.

In this essay, I would like to discuss modernism, both as a cultural category and as a literary phenomenon based... more
In this essay, I would like to discuss modernism, both as a cultural category and as a literary phenomenon based on the context of Malayalam literature.  I would like to look at modernism as a force which gave birth to new literary and cultural aspects. At the outset, it has to be recognized that modernism and modernity are related but not identical. While talking about modernism, I believe that an average post-colonial Indian has two modernisms to deal with – the modernism of the west and the modernism of his/her own ‘region’. Though the modernity of his/her region is connected to that of its colonial master, literary modernism seems to have a difference from where it has been taken or borrowed. Here, the emphasis goes to the literary modernism happened in Malayalam Literature in the 1960s and I would like to discuss about certain aspects of it along with its significance and relation with translation.

Metaformosis of Turkish Modernization

by Murat Çalışkan

graduate thesis (2010 spring) for the department of Political Science and International Relations

The Nature of the Mimetic Conceit of the Complicit in Murakami Haruki’s A Wild Sheep Chase.

by Michael Yasui

published in "The Journal of Social Sciences and the Humanities", March 2010, No. 434

In this essay, I examine the nature of Modernity in Japanese Literature by focusing on Murakami Haruki’s novel A Wild... more In this essay, I examine the nature of Modernity in Japanese Literature by focusing on Murakami Haruki’s novel A Wild Sheep Chase. I assert that the act of appropriating the Western form works as complicit colonization of the cultural contruct of the text in the form of a mimetic conceit. I discuss this in terms of the namelessness and the marginalization of the subject-position of the feminine. Through this discussion, I attempt to demonstrate how the constituted text of the scribe in Japanese Literature placed under the “complicit” and becomes something that is not of, and thus must mediate the loss of its signifier with the notion of disappearance as its germination.

The Peter Kulka Project for the reconstruction of the Potsdam Castle

by Denis Bocquet

Published in Il Giornale dell´Architettura, n.77, Oct. 2009, p.20

A presentation of the project by Peter Kulka, for the BAM consortium, of reconstruction of the Stadtschloss in Potsdam... more A presentation of the project by Peter Kulka, for the BAM consortium, of reconstruction of the Stadtschloss in Potsdam (Germany), as seat of the regional Brandenburg Parliament.
Keywords: Berlin, Germany, Architecture, Potsdam, Peter Kulka, nostalgia.