Architecture has often looked at science fiction to understand the way that new technologies have an effect on buildings we create. Here advocate for a broadening of canon suggesting there are other traditions and forms speculative destabilize through which imagine future buildings. Inspired by recent coinage “auto-theory” work feminist writers such as Donna Haraway, Eula Biss, Valeria Luiselli...

shahrnushparsipur and marguerite duras are two contemporary iranian and french writers who share some similarities in their works due to the facts such as being a woman, a writer, an intellectual, living in a twenty century world and having experienced different feminist approaches and living in the east. the question is then what are these similarities? the research hypothesis based on the que...

Yamashita’s use of mythic verism in Tropic Orange and a reimagined doppelgänger trope I Hotel depicts the ir/real nature taxonomy identity Asian America other minority groups being constituted beyond mainstream or conventional understanding idea US nation-state as built upon discursive technologies amnesia misinterpellation subject history its Other.

Edited by Richard Perez and Victoria A. Chevalier. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. xxi + 650 pp. Magical realism has a chequered history with beginnings in Europe. Magischer Realismus or “magic realism” was coined German art critic, Franz Roh, 1923 to describe certain metaphysical elements that he saw paintings. However, the term did not gain currency—Neue Sachlichkeit (New Object...

Drawing on a number of new readings ‘Post-Truth’, defined as ‘Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential shaping public opinion than appeals emotion and personal belief’, our essay interrogates the extent magical realism may be understood paradigmatic quintessential discourse Post-Truth era. We paraphrase Homi Bhabha’s famous statement, made 1990s, that ...