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Amirpouyan Shiva

Doing Ethnography, Muddying the Waters

Can we solve problems not by efficiently simplifying them, but instead by welcoming confusion and contradiction to our accounts of those…

Sep 13, 2018

Doing Ethnography, Muddying the Waters

Sep 13, 2018

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Verbal Hygiene: The 2008 Purification of a 1921 Iranian Ballad

What does the omission of a single line in the cover of an old song tell us about power, language, and identity?

Jan 28, 2018

Verbal Hygiene: The 2008 Purification of a 1921 Iranian Ballad

Jan 28, 2018

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The Tragedy of Fereydoun

Seriously, why do we love the stories of resistance against tyrants?

Aug 20, 2017

The Tragedy of Fereydoun

Aug 20, 2017

Amirpouyan Shiva

The “Something Else” of Written Words

In the chapter on the “Wonders of Shapes Drawn and Carved” of the 12th century Persian encyclopedia of extraordinary creatures and strange…

Jul 27, 2017

The “Something Else” of Written Words

Jul 27, 2017

Amirpouyan Shiva

Don Draper on Journal-keeping vs. Strategic Writing

What is good writing? Why and when should we write? What should it do for us? The representation of writing in a season-four episode of Mad…

Sep 7, 2015

Don Draper on Journal-keeping vs. Strategic Writing

Sep 7, 2015

Amirpouyan Shiva

Regimes of Writing: A Shift in Our Relationship with Written Words

In possibly his most famous short story, East of Violet (Šarq-e Banafše), Iranian novelist, Shahriar Mandanipour (1999) recounts a love…

Aug 24, 2015

Regimes of Writing: A Shift in Our Relationship with Written Words

Aug 24, 2015

Amirpouyan Shiva

Amirpouyan Shiva

Cultural Anthropologist, Interested in the Interface b/w People, Media, Language, Cultures, and Technologies

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