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The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: modernization, transculturation, and the lettered city
Coloniality, Nationality, Modernity, 2016This article approaches the Sovietization of the Baltics in the light of two critical notions developed by the noted Latin American critic Angel Rama: “narrative transculturation” and “the lettered city.” By revisiting key moments in the development of ...
Violeta Davoliūtė
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Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
44 Michael Madsen) and Manufactured Landscapes (2006, Jennifer Baichwal). While many of Kaplan’s fictional film examples do not explicitly fault humans for global warming and other contemporary environmental disasters, her documentary choices ...
Anila Gill
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44 Michael Madsen) and Manufactured Landscapes (2006, Jennifer Baichwal). While many of Kaplan’s fictional film examples do not explicitly fault humans for global warming and other contemporary environmental disasters, her documentary choices ...
Anila Gill
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Dissent, 2006
Why do cities take the Olympics on? The visibility is usually ephemeral (what have you heard lately about Nagano?). They don't make a profit on the games; they hope to break even. After winter games, local governments are stuck with outsized luge tracks, ski jumps, and multiple ice rinks costing hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to maintain ...
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Why do cities take the Olympics on? The visibility is usually ephemeral (what have you heard lately about Nagano?). They don't make a profit on the games; they hope to break even. After winter games, local governments are stuck with outsized luge tracks, ski jumps, and multiple ice rinks costing hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to maintain ...
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Letter from Victoria City Hall
2020A letter from Victoria City Hall dated 9 June 1887 to some fire wardens of the Victoria Fire Department, including Frank Sylvester. The letter states the results of a decision by City Hall in regards to a report from the fire wardens given at a council meeting about a dispute over the ownership of furniture at the Tiger Engine House.
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1997
Thanks to modern "vision machines'' -photography, CCTV, remote sensing satellites, GPS, and beyond- we can now see, fort he first time in history, the infinitely small and the far-away as if they were big and proximate, and observe in detail the gargantuan by customizing it to consumable bits.
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Thanks to modern "vision machines'' -photography, CCTV, remote sensing satellites, GPS, and beyond- we can now see, fort he first time in history, the infinitely small and the far-away as if they were big and proximate, and observe in detail the gargantuan by customizing it to consumable bits.
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Introduction. The Ear and the Voice in the Lettered City’s Geophysical History
Aurality, 2020semanticscholar +1 more source
2. Transculturation and Subalternity: The "Lettered City" and the Tupac Amaru Rebellion
Subalternity and Representation, 2020semanticscholar +1 more source
TDR: The Drama Review
Dear San Francisco by the Montréal-based company Les 7 Doigts de la Main takes up mythological symbols surrounding California, particularly through tracing modes of communication—from letters and mail to iPhones. Yet, as a performance ultimately centering on epistolary form, Dear San Francisco finds inspiration in dedication as a uniquely political act
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Dear San Francisco by the Montréal-based company Les 7 Doigts de la Main takes up mythological symbols surrounding California, particularly through tracing modes of communication—from letters and mail to iPhones. Yet, as a performance ultimately centering on epistolary form, Dear San Francisco finds inspiration in dedication as a uniquely political act
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