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When Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans were first exhibited in 1962, they provoked ridicule and scandal rather than even distant admiration. The display seemed to speak more of a “non-art” than of any legitimate artistic expression. Yet…

Luchino Visconti was born into an aristocratic and highly cultured family in Italy and rose to become one of the country’s greatest filmmakers. In addition to his work in cinema, Visconti was also an accomplished musician, theatre director,…

If we consider Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, and many other writers within the magical realism tradition as echoes of early 20th-century visual arts in Latin America, then Fernando Botero must be seen not merely as…

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) is, for many, most immediately recognized by his unparalleled film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Yet Kubrick should be regarded as a true genius in the realms of cinema and cinematic writing. A skilled…

– In a society like Iran, what is the definition of the middle class, and how does this definition differ from that of other parts of the world? The term “middle class” is used more frequently in general contexts, such as media…

​In the current difficult and complex situation, the result of a hundred years of accumulated errors (despite significant successes) in the pursuit of modernity, the talk everywhere is of "infiltration" and the "infiltrator." This refers to…

Some societies, during certain historical periods, are confronted with an intense experience of death. This experience, which is deeply unequal in its distribution across time and space, social groups, and within socio-cultural and…

Before reducing the issue of supporting or opposing nuclear negotiations and cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to an internal dispute between reformists and conservatives—or simplifying it into a binary opposition…

Nasser Fakouhi is professor of anthropology at the University of Tehran. In light of the most recent protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, we are reflecting on a 2016 interview between Fakouhi and Social Science Space in…

There was a time when the male-dominated culture of cinema persistently sought to reduce women to mere objects of desire — sexualized images that reinforced gendered clichés and the subordination of women. A time when women were…