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The Social Properties of Concrete

Concrete is a ubiquitous part of our world. It composes our dwellings and shapes our infrastructures. It unites and divides urban space and is used to wage both war and peace. Concrete is simultaneously an ...

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 9

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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations ...

Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image

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What do images have to do with the stubborn perception that women are naturally and fundamentally mothers? How can artwork aligned with feminism teach us to see women differently? In Writing in the Kitchen with ...

a decolonial manual

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In Frantz Fanon’s eyes, decolonization “sets out to change the order of the world.” Is that even possible today? If it is in any sense possible in our times, what would this involve: what kind ...

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