"Reach into this trickbox of memory and rummage around: you may find a tiny spaceship, or perhaps a signpost, a parade, a raised fist, an entire museum. The essays in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concep…
he apparent simplicity of the etymology of “autofiction”—designating texts that have something to do with the self and with fiction—is belied by the proliferation of meanings and practices with which it is associated. Critical writing on autofiction will usually mention one or more of the fol-lowing characteristics, all of which can characterize autofictional texts, b…
The manual is split into two volumes. Vol. 1 prioritizes the reading and understanding of Roman cursive and the documents in which it is found. Vol. 2 provides an overview and catalogue of Roman writing implements, the main writing materials and accessories, and information about archaeological finds, photographs, drawings, and literary and iconographic testimony. It also presents a commentary …
Furthermore, within the context of action regulation theory, a suitable concept canbe identified to conceptualize sovereignty with respect to individuals in work settings.A core meaning of sovereignty – across all domains as described above (Couture and Toupin 2019) – deals withcontrol, in the sense of individuals – or groups, movements,corporations, states – having control over their e…
In 2018 the J. Paul Getty Museum presented the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, curated by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole. This was the first in a series of exhibitions and publications seeking to explore how Greece and Rome influenced and were influenced by neighboring cultures and civilizations in the Mediterranean and Near East over a period spanning…
I believe in processes and people. In this effort, poems are made from them. These poems, and associated writings collected here, were written to “teach and tell, count and swell” about some truths about contemporary internet culture (this is also the title of the #100th #hardtruths of my 2017 born-digital primer on digital media literacy, …