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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Open City"”.
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Detroit : open city
Detroit is often regarded as America's largest city in decline, a metropolis that has failed to recover from an insidious cycle of deindustrialization, racism, suburban flight and laggard politics. This image of the city highlights the tragic aspects of Detroit's urban development and obscures the …
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Ciudad Abierta / Open City : tracing, mapping and plotting and its trajectory
… Catolica de Valparaiso and its annex the Open City is a school of architecture that for 46 years has been developing a unique approach to architectural education founded in the relationship between architecture and poetry. This thesis project is not a research paper in the senso estricto …
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The Open City: A Grammatology of Migrant-Rights Movements and the Logic of Sovereignty
… and practical elements I refer to as the open city.
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Black Bodies in the Open City: Precarity and Belonging in the work of Teju Cole
… Through close analysis of the novels Open City (2011) and Every Day is for the Thief (2007), and essays from the collection Known and Strange Things (2016), principally “Black Body” and “Unmournable Bodies”, I argue that Cole’s work subverts certain tropes in the tradition of black …
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'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY
<p>Teju Cole’s <em>Open City </em>(2011) is an exemplar work of contemporary fiction. For its complex representation of subjectivity, hypnotic narrative tone, and global political scope, the novel<em> </em>has been praised by readers and critics alike. Julius, the text’s first-person narrator, …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
… Through close readings of Teju Cole’s <em>Open City</em> and <em>Tremor</em>, and Mohsin Hamid’s <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Exit West</em>, this study argues that cosmopolitanism today emerges explicitly from rupture, contradiction, and ethical struggle, shaped …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
… third chapter interprets Teju Cole’s 2011 novel Open City as constitutively torn between the ethics of characterological alterity and constellational form, arguing that this tension can be illuminated in terms of Namwali Serpell’s discussion of the ‘spoiled baroque’. In my final chapter, I …
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THINKING MAKING AND LIVING ARCHITECTURE IN AN AGEING SOCIETY. THE TYPOLOGICAL PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA
… for conceiving a new architectural type: the “open type,” which is grounded in the notions of an “open architecture” and an “open city.” This “open type” promotes multidisciplinary, collaborative and socially inclusive design principles, and thereby order as a result. Consequently, a renewed …