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Walking Through Everyday Life: Tensions and Disruptions within the Ordinary
Open Philosophy, 2023 Bringing together a genealogy of authors, concepts, and aesthetic case studies, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on ordinary aesthetics by focusing on the tensions that are intrinsic to walking as a fundamental embodied action in ...
Conceição Nélio
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, 2011 This paper argues that ephemera is a key instrument of cultural memory, marking the things intended to be forgotten. This important role means that when ephemera survives, whether accidentally or deliberately, it does so despite itself. These survivals,
Beagrie Neil +20 more
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Illusory Interior: Public Housing as Uncanny Site
Interiority, 2023 In 2021, Indonesia participated in the London Design Biennale, focusing on the theme of Resonance. The pavilion's response centred around public housing as an uncanny site, examining the psychological barriers faced by evicted communities during their ...
Dea Aulia Widyaevan
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« Shots in mirrors » : Les jeux de miroir dans No Country For Old Men (Coen 2007)
Revue LISA, 2023 In her essay Shots in the Mirror (2000), Nicole Rafter emphasized the appeal of including mirrors in thrillers. More significantly, she described the thriller genre as a mirror of society, thus considering both the object and its metaphorical character ...
Julie Assouly
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“Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight [PDF]
, 2015 Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight (1939) is a novel that returns obsessively to the uncanny architecture of the Parisian hotel, through providing insight into the deracinated experiences of protagonist Sasha Jansen, a woman existing at the peripheries ...
Zimmerman, Emma
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Matrophobia and Uncanny Kinship: Eva Hoffman’s The Secret
Humanities, 2018 Eva Hoffman, known primarily for her autobiography of exile, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1989), is also the author of a work of Gothic science fiction, set in the future.
Elizabeth Kella
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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]
, 2008 This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian
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Confluenze, 2022 As an anomalous and transgressive novel, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed (1998) has become a classic of Argentine literature in recent decades. In this paper we are interested in approaching its reading based on its link with that “Gothic mode”
Agustín Conde De Boeck
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On Home (das Heim) and the Uncanny (das Unheimliche) in Heidegger [PDF]
Phainomena, 2022 The paper aims to argue that the question of home (das Heim) is one of the crucial elements of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, which has been tackled by the German philosopher throughout his lifework in close connection to its opposition, namely the ...
Mateja Kurir Borovčić
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Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo, 2019 The nineteenth century in the West was a period of intellectual and artistic fascination with the East, both distant and near: Asian and Eastern European.
Patrycjusz Pająk
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