My friend and adviser, historian Dr Mansour Bonakdarian, recommended this book to me early in our conversation about this project a few months ago: Zerubavel, Eviatar. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago: University of…
Continuing with quotes from R. Bosnak, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel. Bold emphasis is mine. On flashback and trauma, or how to change the past: Flashback-type memory is completely different from the discursive, narrative memory of ordinary…
Some quotes from R. Bosnak, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel. Bold emphasis is mine. The most absolute and unmediated form of embodied imagination is a dream. It instantaneously presents a total world, so real that you are…
I have been working at my local public library branch for most of this week. I come here every morning and station myself at the corner table in the children’s section. I like working in the children’s section primarily because…
I’m reading some material in cognitive science to develop an understanding of the role of embodiment in cognition and thus in cultural development and phenomena. This I feel is essential both in understanding the encounters between Iranians and Europeans and…
From Refashioning Iran, pp. 33-34: The challenge of postcolonial historiography is to re-historicize the processes that have been concealed and ossified by the Eurocentric accounts of modernity. This challenge also involves uncovering the underside of “occidental rationality.” Such a project…