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Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics
Read more: Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector SemanticsKurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.
The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa
A country built with diasporas and immigrants
How have diasporas and migrants contributed to the rise of the US as a great political, economic, scientific, and cultural power?
5 things you might not expect of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East
Drawing on a long history of Christian-Muslim coexistence, Anna Hager explores the nuances and complexities of interfaith relations in the Middle East
Palestine, Racial Capitalism and the Weapon of Theory
Kieron Turner treats Racial Capitalism as a crucial theoretical tool for anti-colonial Palestinian resistance
Demystifying the role of Ottoman bureaucrats in occupied Western Anatolia at the dawn of ethnic violence and destruction
Umit Eser explores authoritarianism in post-Ottoman geographies by investigating the origins of organised violence and ethnic cleansings at the beginning of the twentieth century
Signaling Tensions: The Politics of Telegraphic Communication in Modern Afghanistan
How does the telegraph function as both a material invention and an object of desire?
Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary
On the third anniversary of the seizure of Kabul, Robert D. Crews asks how we make sense of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Relationality in Times of War
How do British and German cultural works establish relationality between Israel and Palestine?
As Mīr Ways Khān slept: miraculous possibilities in Afghan history
What happens when we view supernatural happenings as a wellspring of historical possibilities, rather than as excess to be cut away?