Not exact matches
The name is
taken from the book «Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play - Element in Culture,» by the Dutch historian and
cultural theorist Johan Huizinga, who claimed that the act of playing (ludus) is what makes human beings human — and that it predates culture.
A separately - ticketed discussion between William Kentridge and the Harvard
cultural historian, critical
theorist, and expert on Colonialism, Homi K. Bhabha will
take place Friday, May 4, at 4 pm.
In the Focus, Slovenian
cultural theorist and philosopher Renata Salecl
takes an in - depth look at Holzer's Lustmord series, which was precipitated by the events in the former Yugoslavia and boldly addresses the atrocities committed in war.
Here «spacial immersion»
takes a different direction: restrictive, office - like cubicles colored in dark tones host video stations where different human scientists (ethnographers, psychiatric and philosophical practitioners and
theorists) from Europe and Africa discuss topics that bear different universal and
cultural value, from «Genocide» to «Trance».