#Orientalism

Oops! Looks like someone hasn't read the UNESCO 1970 convention. Manuscripts are in fact explicitly protected, as are *cough* incunabula. Let's have a thread about provenance, UNESCO, and the priciest
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OK you ask for it, you get it. This will be Academia is Stupid Part I: ResearchAlmost all humanities & social sciences research in the Anglophone world happens at an
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Very long rant: It has become clear to me that any claim of a particular church communion to hold an entirely unchanged faith and practice from the time of the
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People mistakenly fear that polygamy will be legalized because Europe is being slowly conquered, or because Tinder girls are hypergamous. The actual reason is that improvements to VR porn will
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There's an academic symposium happening online this weekend on "Writing the Supernatural into History in Pre-Modern East Asia" - if I can manage the time difference I'll probably try to
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The issue of all these diverse names for 'Chinese' converging into just 1 term in English is a paramount one in the realm of Chinese, Taiwanese, and HK politics that
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This is Olympia, by Édouard Manet. It was exhibited in the 1865 Paris Salon & caused an absolute scandal as it clearly depicted a sex worker. It was condemned as
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Of the myriad problems in the media’s reporting on coronavirus, I think the most fundamental is treating China - an authoritarian regime willing to kill its citizens to save face
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A couple more thoughts on this bit of advice in response to @extremefriday 's call for suggestions for overhauling her department's math history course.Confining non-Western traditions to the past is
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The reasons why Kenma has been treated as an “uwu baby” in fandom spaces are numerous, mainly based on foundations built around ableism, homophobia, misogyny, and to an extent racism.
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White supremacy & epistemic colonialism in design discourse, scholarship, & practice: a basic primer (thread) Historically, design scholarship, like design practice outside of the academy, has upheld white supremacy and epistemic
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Ancient vs modern returns to #whichodalisque, with a girl in the "video game concept art" style and a classic slave market photo shoot.I pose you riddles three:Which image did you
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NOTES ON NAMING COVID-19 AND ANTI-ASIAN RACISM (warning this is a LONG thread):I've been thinking and engaging around this subject A LOT recently (i.e., talking to a lot of racists
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My all time favourite Met Gala looks by everyone who wanted to be there and dressed up accordingly to the theme: Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design (1974)Cher Marisa Berenson The
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finally starting atla with my little sister. generally i have excellent opinions but u guys have to promise not to put me in the stocks if i, out of ignorance,
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Who were the people reading the Nippon Times (predecessor of @japantimes) during WWII? ・English-speaking foreigners in Japan? I doubt there were many of those at that time.・Japanese people wanting to
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