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Wesselman, Daan; Ferdinand, Simon; Souch, Irina

doi:10.4324/9780429290732-1

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“…The NAC billboards promise onlookers driving on the congested freeways of the Suez Road and Ring Road a fantasized escape to greenery, open spaces, and luxurious built environment. Acting as “discrepant emplacements” (Ferdinand et al, 2020, p. 1), the billboards construct the NAC as a space exhibiting privileged silence, new lifestyles, and new spatial practices. These constructions lie in contrast to the built environments in which the billboards are placed, read and experienced.…”

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Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital: A Semio-Foucauldian Landscape Analysis

Fawzy

2021

Space and Culture

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Signs in the urban landscapes are never neutral; they always enact connections to power relations and social hierarchies. By examining the New Administrative Capital of Egypt’s (NAC) advertising billboards, the current study relates itself to the literature of Linguistic Landscape (LL). The study examines the NAC from a semio-discursive perspective. More specifically, it relies on the tools of Semiotic Landscape (SL) to discuss how the landscape of Cairo is represented as a heterogeneous contested space, and how the semiotic resources of its real-estate billboards epitomize Foucauldian principles of heterotopia. The study maintains that the different semiotic resources deployed in the NAC billboards commodify urban space by indexing heterotopic power relations. It is found that spatial commodification of the New Capital is embodied in two heterotopic tropes: “silent” space and “carnival” space. That is, the NAC billboards promote the consumption of the urban space by selling the heterotopic experiences of silence, and carnival-like tempo-spatiality. The study has found that the space of the NAC is semiotically presented in the landscape of Cairo as heterotopic through promoting “different” spatial experiences. To put it differently, the NAC billboards are perceived as antithesis to their landscapes of emplacement, the landscape of Cairo.

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Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital: A Semio-Foucauldian Landscape Analysis

Fawzy

2021

Space and Culture

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“…Information is literally available at our fingertips. Memory no longer must be stored in our heads or libraries (see Johnson, 2020). Young people, supported by scientists, are becoming aware that the natural contract is written negatively across the earth.…”

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Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia

Johnson

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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With some justification, Michel Serres claimed that he was one of the first to make ecology a central question for philosophy. Many of his books explore the ecological emergency and spell out the need to include the more-than-human in any ethical and political response. Yet Serres’ thought has been generally neglected in scholarly debate outside France. To highlight the importance of Serres’ philosophy, I contrast aspects of his work with Latour’s sustained search for a political ecology. I contend that Serres’ thought overlaps with but also challenges Latour’s approach that has increasingly turned for inspiration to the theory of Gaia proposed by Lovelock and Margulis. I argue that drawing from science, history, fables, the humanities and his own experience, Serres brings together a narrative of the commonality of all living and non-living things that exposes a contractable obligation and formulates the grounding for a new politics.

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Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City

May

2022

Games and Culture

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Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City has found new life in videogames during the three decades since its demolition, taking on unstable and sometimes contradictory forms when reimagined through virtual architecture. At stake in these acts of memory are the historical discourses surrounding everyday life in Kowloon Walled City, its uncertain political and cultural status, and ongoing postcolonial debates concerning Hong Kong identity. I analyze Kowloon's Gate, Shenmue II, and Mr Pumpkin 2: Walls of Kowloon to uncover the contestation of the city's histories through the types of spaces Michel Foucault described as heterotopic: at once real and unreal, and existent and non-existent. This analysis reveals the fluid nature of cultural memory and historical discourse in videogame spaces, as well as how virtual spatiality and the past can be used together to understand and define the present.

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Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital: A Semio-Foucauldian Landscape Analysis

Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital: A Semio-Foucauldian Landscape Analysis

Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia

Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City

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