HEDAYAT

«حاجی آقا» در جهنم

"شب نشینی در جهنم" داستان هدایت را در ناخودآگاه جمعی بیدار می کند

22-May-2012 (2 comments)
"فیلم شب نشنینی در جهنم" از فیلم های قدیمی ایرانی است که با تأثیر از "حاجی آقای" هدایت و نوکرش مراد، به صورت کمدی حاصل همکاری مشترک دو تن، داستان از مهدی میثاقیه و دیالوگ از حسین مدنی، به روال کمدی های مولیر نوشته شده است. >>>

IDEAS

Conceptualizing Gender (3)

Body Practice and Gender Performance

09-May-2012
Bryan Turner, who has developed the sociology of the body, examines bodies as “objects over which we labour: eating, sleeping, cleaning, dieting, exercising”. He puts forward the concept of “individual and collective body practices”, which refers to the ways in which the body is tackled by social labour and activity. Body practices, which, to a great extent, could be done in social institutions, are related to the creation of gender>>>

IDEAS

Conceptualizing Gender (2)

Post-structural theories

03-May-2012
For a deeper understanding of the concept of gender, we need to get acquainted with theories that focus on the social and cultural construction of gender. These theories include Structuralism, Post-structural Theories and Semiotics of Gender, Gender as Performance and Performativity, Psychoanalysis, and psychological anthropology>>>

WOMEN

The Pause

Oh Joy!!!

01-May-2012
I can't sleep, so I'm here, writing. Menopause is also here. Menopause, Pre-menopause, post menopause. WTF! What the hell do these words mean? Every woman has got her own interpretation. I brought up the topic at a luncheon with a few girlfriends. Total silence for a few moments and then looks of pity from staring eyes. "Are you pre-menpausal? They asked. "What the hell does that mean? I asked>>>

ART

Most Influential Iranians

Most Influential Iranians

Digital images

by ramintork
30-Apr-2012 (10 comments)

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IDEAS

Conceptualizing Gender (1)

Sex roles theories

27-Apr-2012 (one comment)
The concept of gender is as problematic as the “nature versus nurture” argument. The terms "sex," "female," and "male" are biological terms, based on verifiable physical differences. However, to be born with a sex, female or male, in any society does not mean to be born gendered, feminine or masculine. But what do gender, feminine or masculine mean? These terms are confused and confusing, because they are defined by numerous diverging views and discourses>>>

POETRY

بازیگر

شعری از آنتونیو تابوکی

27-Apr-2012 (5 comments)
آنتونیو تابوکی، نویسنده ایتالیایی نه عامویم بود و نه سرورم، نویسنده ای معاصر بود که دلنشین و خواندنی می نوشت و در ماه گذشته درگذشت. رمان نویسی آنتونیو تابوکی متأثر از فرناندو پسووا و لوئیجی پیراندلو بود و او این تأثیر را هرگز پنهان نکرد. اتوفیکشن در آثار او تکنیکی است که مدام به کار می گیرد>>>

LONDON

The Garden of Permanent Sleep

The Garden of Permanent Sleep

Photo essay: Islington and Camden Cemetery, North London

by Hossein Shahidi
21-Apr-2012

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TUPAC

Living Dead

The inevitability of life in the mind of the dead

19-Apr-2012 (one comment)
Two American rappers about to go on tour are considering reviving their colleague to join them in holographic form – because he’s dead. Earlier this week CGI wizardry allowed Tupac Shakur, gunned down in Las Vegas 1996, to join his contemporaries Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre at the Coachela festival in California to perform his song Gangsta Party. Pac had barely changed at all: muscles rippling, bounce, and his distinctive tattoo, if now rather ironically, declaring: Thug Life>>>

DONKEY

Beh Name Khar

From the "Rajazzalin" album

14-Apr-2012 (13 comments)
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THUMBS UP

The Unfilm

Jafar Panahi's "This Is Not a Film"

11-Apr-2012 (4 comments)
Pahani is a fighter who can dish it out as well as take it. Last year, while under house arrest waiting for the outcome of his appeal, he made a home video mocking the ban order on his filmmaking. Technically, the work is not a film, hence the title, This Is Not a Film. Trapped in his apartment, the director doesn’t have a wide choice of locations for his unfilm. There’s the kitchen, the dining room, the living room, and the balcony, with one intriguing dialog taking place in the building elevator >>>

TALENT

A Fusion of The Hearts

A Fusion of The Hearts

Introducing Parisa Vaaleh

by Nazy Kaviani
05-Apr-2012 (5 comments)

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IDEAS

Cultural Lumpenism  (Part 6 - End)

Always addressing only men and ignoring women is certainly part of our culture

05-Apr-2012 (5 comments)
According to Balatarin website, “Abdolkarim Soroush, who had abandoned intellectual debates and entered the political arena, had been supporting Karroubi’s candidacy out of, in his own words, “reluctance and coercion”. As mentioned previously, Dowlat-Abadi supported Mir-Hossein Moussavi and, in his May 12, 2009 speech, spoke against the Cultural Revolution. In the same speech, he mentioned Abdolkarim Soroush as the instigator of the Cultural Revolution and the only instigator>>>

WAR HORSE

اسب  جنگ

مثل خوردن فنجان بزرگی قهوه تلخ است در صبحی زمستانی با آسمانی سربی

03-Apr-2012 (2 comments)
به قول اینشتین، برای دانش بشری و حماقت انسانی حد و مرزی وجود دارد و جنگ ترکیبی است از هردو خصیصه ناب انسانی یعنی حماقت و دانش. با وجود آنکه اسپیلبرگ در مصاحبه ای گفته است که فیلم "اسب جنگ" اساساً در باره جنگ نیست و بیشتر در خصوص سرنوشت اسبی است که نا خواسته درگیر جنگ شده، با اینحال حاصل کار نتیجه ای جز ارائه سندی در باره حماقت بشر نیست>>>

IDEAS

Cultural Lumpenism (5)

Dowlat-Abadi’s statements are mostly progressive, but within IRI's limits

01-Apr-2012
“Dowlat-Abadi: No. Protesting censorship has its own form according to the circumstance. I protest in one way, another will protest in another way. But, in fact, censorship is not a matter to be solved by using the sword. We want the problem to be solved. We want to make it understood that censorship is an unnecessary matter; because in every society, there are a series of taboos, and our writers in Iran respect these taboos. Therefore, censorship can no more play the important role it has given itself.” What taboos is Dowlat-Abadi talking about?>>>