Un Veritable Cachemire
The idea of time as a crumpled handkerchief offers a welcome alternative to the notion of time as a linear...
Orientalism
The Self on Display
While fashion designers today reach the heights of celebrity status, the roots of the phenomenon lie in fin de siècle...
Shameless Trespassing
On Cultural Transits, Immodest Exposure and the Grotesque Body
Orientalism, and the related appellation orientalist, opens up to a wide debate on Western visions of the East, and has...
Fashioning the Freak Show
While some would argue the format of the freak show never gone away, the scopophilic frisson of the American sideshow,...