Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
Un-Mastering Cairo: The affective and Material Making of Postcolonial Urban spaces
Un-Mastering Cairo: The affective and Material Making of Postcolonial Urban spaces
Dr. Aya Nassar
Dr. Aya Nassar is broadly interested in the ways in which we maintain attachments to spaces that seem to be perpetually betraying their political promise. Her previous research focused on the afterlives of postcolonial urban ambition by focusing incomplete archives, fragmented pasts and the materiality of the city (such as dust, holes or concrete) in Cairo, Egypt. Her current research is still interested in this broad question by thinking through the political potential of narration and storytelling. She looks into architecture, urban planning, geopoetics and aesthetics of space, with a regional focus of the Arab World.
Durham, London
11:30 - 12:00