The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...

D’apres Marta Gili, critique d’art et commissaire d’exposition, « le feminisme est la revolution plus longue de l’histoire, une qui n’a pas encore abouti ». L’aboutissement souhaite semblant lointain, le cycle tables rondes « Art : genre feminin », organise entre 2017 2019 par les etudiant·e·s du master Sciences techniques l’exposition l’Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, Archives of Women A...

CRITERIA IN CRISIS: MODERNIST, POSTMODERNIST, AND FEMINIST CRITICAL PRACTICES FEBRUARY 1999 MARY ANN SUSHINSKY, B.A. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY M.A., CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Ann Ferguson I examine a problem or dilemma of legitimation faced by the critical theorist who takes as the object of his or her critique a totality of which s...

In his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), Marcuse argued that a concern for aesthetics is justified when political change is unlikely. But the relation between aesthetics and politics is oblique: “Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness ... of the men and women who could change the world.” (p. 33). Marcuse also linked his critique of capitalism t...

Stephen Dwoskin was a prolific experimental filmmaker from the mid-1960s until his death in 2012. Commonly associated with New York underground film scene and London Filmmakers’ Co-Op, which he co-founded 1966, Jewish-American also childhood survivor of polio disability rights activist. Though an enduring oral legacy feminist criticism Dwoskin’s work remains since 1980s, later 1990s 2000s is ac...

Article 23 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) explicitly includes ‘the adoption of children’ as a right to which people with disabilities are equally entitled. Despite the CRPD having been in force for over nine years, research is yet to consider whether CRPD signatory states have brought their respective adoption regimes in line with their obligations under art...

The role of art and the artist has played a part in both of the main long-established theories of gentrification, looking respectively at ‘culture’ and ‘capital’ as key drivers. Cultural analyses of gentrification have identified the individual artist as an important agent in the initiation of gentrification processes in old working-class neighbourhoods. Alternative theorizations have recognize...

This paper critique is written under the assumption that the reader is already familiar with the primary text [2] (henceforth referred to as “the paper”), and therefore a full overview of the LogP model will not be presented. The critique will mainly focus on shortcomings and weaknesses of the paper, leaving commentary on the positive contributions of the work for the end. The critique is organ...

Critiquing is a well-known form of user feedback in casebased recommender systems. A critique encodes the users preference in relation to a particular feature. For example, in a digital camera recommender a user may be allowed to indicate whether they are interested in cameras with a lower resolution than the one currently presented; so ‘lower resolution’ is an example of a critique over the re...