... non-specialist audience for the book. 4 We can be interested in a published diary inasmuch as it recounts a discovery of a (to us) unknown land and culture. But Leiris wrote, “Not for a moment have I proposed to write what is known as a travel narrative , feeling that in these days...

...Kevin Robins Abstract This article explores issues covered in Wuhan Diary , a day-by-day account by the Chinese author Fang Fang of her experiences during the height of the pandemic crisis in the city of Wuhan during the early months of 2020. It seeks to bring out what is distinctive and innovative...

...Helga Lénárt-Cheng This article seeks to contribute to the debate about the relationship between time and social identity by studying the recent trend of simultaneous, crowd-sourced visual diaries. The article focuses on the concept of simultaneity and its relation to communal identity. Crowd...

...Figure 7 Ravi Agarwal, Ambient Seas Diary , Else All Will Be Still series (2015). Photo collage. ...

... of the conflict 1 and to letters and diaries written at the front. McEwan read a large number of the latter in the Imperial War Museum in London while conducting research for the central, wartime sequence of Atonement . In consulting these papers he was “looking for… what I thought of as the emotional truth...

... any more. In his immensely influential short story, “Diary of a Madman,” Lu Xun presented a devastating reinterpretation of traditional canons by documenting the awakening of a madman, an allegorical rendition of the process of coming to enlightenment. After reading deep into the night, the madman...

... .” Text and Performance Quarterly 31 , no. 1 : 15 – 36 . Lock Margaret Nguyen Vinh-Kim . 2010 . An Anthropology of Biomedicine . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell . Lundin, Susanne. 1995. “Field Diary 1995, Interviews.” Lund University, Department of European Ethnology, Lund, Sweden...

.... This is the nature of the event in psychoanalysis. It is possible to see that the same theory holds for Benjamin when we examine the repetitive deviations and endless disruptions recorded in his Moscow Diary (1986). Given this thesis, which explains the necessary dislocation of act and intention, we can also...

... at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research , London . Bauman Zygmunt . 2012 . This Is Not a Diary . Cambridge : Polity . Eco Umberto . 1995 . “ Ur-Fascism .” New York Review of Books , June 22 . Kingsley Patrick . 2016 . The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis...

...-hundred-page compendium in which he recorded a day-by-day diary of months of planning for the attacks and claimed to be part of a small group that intended to “seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda.” 8 Exhibiting...

.... Chapters are divided into subsections that might or might not follow on from each other in any logical way. Sometimes book titles seem largely arbitrary or self-refuting (e.g., his 2012 This Is Not a Diary ). What you might expect to find is absent; what you would not imagine finding is present...

... to Congo, one that served both as artistic research and as a performance of returning some of the minerals back to the soil. The following text is a short excerpt from their travel diary: a meditation on a geography of the travels of minerals—the materials of media culture—as part of the postcolonial...

... on wartime diaries Janina kept as a young girl. It was a time when it was still acceptable to examine the nature of the social structure together with no more than five other students in the house of one’s professor accompanied by homemade wine (Chateau Lawnswood) and a remarkable second host who had...

... of the book, Old Chen refers to the work of Lu Xun, and implicitly his classic work The Diary of a Madman ( [1918] 2009 ), which tells the story of a paranoiac who becomes convinced that everybody in his village has turned to cannibalism. Recalling both Plato’s myth of the cave and Nietzsche’s story...

... . “ Fashion Diary; What Fashion Owes to XXX .” New York Times , September 12 , query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EED81530F931A2575AC0A9629C8B63 . Virno Paolo Hardt Michael , eds. 1996 . Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota...

... in the Theory of Culture , a book that was published in English in 2018 but had been intended for publication in the 1960s and was confiscated by authorities in the process of exile. Janina's personal diaries from the Warsaw Ghetto, miraculously preserved during the war itself, were seized when the family...

... and Happy Days (in the UK there was a fascination with the alleged certainties of Edwardian England, visible on TV in Upstairs Downstairs and in the best-selling Diary of an Edwardian Country Lady ). If nostalgia involves the notion of a safer or better time, we should remember that the root of the word...

.... Mordecai Roshwald’s celebrated novel Level 7 ( [1959] 1981 ), for example, imagines life inside a military bunker complex from the point of view of an operative whose sole job is to be on hand to activate a missile strike. Presented in the form of this man’s diary, Level 7 is concerned...

... this investigation critiques: their solution relies on active and industrious forms of protest. Rancière brings up a diary entry written by a floor-layer in a worker's revolutionary newspaper called Le tocsin des travailleurs , published during the French revolution of 1848. “Believing himself at home...