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Back to SearchGilah Yelin Hirsch, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
Episode 130
Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together …
3 years, 9 months ago
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 146
Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But s…
3 years, 9 months ago
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Episode 305
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized the way philosophers and historians of science thought about science, scientific…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
Episode 56
In 1982, the Institute held a multi day discussion of censorship. In this session from the Vault, sociologist Richard Sennett talks about Jean Jacque…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
Episode 9
The "Black Desert" in the northern Arabian Peninsula is home to thousands of pieces of rock art - both written inscriptions and figural images - left…
3 years, 9 months ago
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Episode 7
A conversation with Dr. Salah Hatem and Dr. Jaafar Jotheri, professors of archaeology at al-Qadisiyah University, about their research project docume…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 142
Rebecca Binn's Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avante Garde (Manchester University Press, 2022) is the first book-length work dedicated to…
3 years, 9 months ago
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
Episode 53
In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis …
3 years, 10 months ago
Aaron Moulton, "The Influencing Machine" (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022)
Episode 129
In the 1990s, a network of twenty Soros Centres for Contemporary Art sprung up across Eastern Europe: Almaty, Belgrade, Budapest, Kiev, Ljubljana, Pr…
3 years, 10 months ago
Mark McKinney, "Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Episode 1290
Regarded as the “9th Art”, French bande desinée have a much longer history of serious socio-political engagement than American comics. Since the Alge…
3 years, 10 months ago