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The wasm: a mark that precedes the alphabet
On marks of ownership on camel and stone, and on the question they open: when does a mark become writing?
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Season Two — Shifts
Reading the paths of contemporary social and cultural change.
3 episodes in this season
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The majlis: who sits at the head?
A reading of the majlis as an ordering of standing, and of what happened to it when housing moved into flats.
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From oral history to the digital archive: tools and challenges
How do we document living memory before modernity folds it away? An episode that is technical and philosophical at once, with the...
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