Inscription, memory, transgression

A Cultural History of Memory in the Twentieth Century cannot be written without taking into account the massive impact of the nation state on collective memory formation. This volu...

This chapter explores the composition of Deuteronomy 28, noting a parallel to the Tell Fakhariyah bilingual inscription. Scholars have developed a textual history for the Tell Fakh...

A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical V...

The performative aesthetics of transgression occur as perpetrators “will” the unwillable desire of the introjected m(Other) experienced in fantasy in modes that include superegotis...

During his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his ma...

A short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers. Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood ...

Among the various forms of social memory discussed by Chris Wickham and James Fentress in Social Memory, topographic memory was given rather short shrift: by this I mean the memory...

An exploration of historical memory and networks of meaning in the context of today's crises of extremism and polarization. As authoritarianism continues to rise aro...