For some time, my mind has been involved in opinions, and it is interesting that dissenting opinions have always been set aside, and I find a desire for conformity among people and today that has confused me greatly. That you have to agree with everything and approve it? Why should we be afraid of hearing …
Fashion—especially haute couture, which is handmade and not mass-produced—is sometimes regarded as art. Certainly, a classic Balenciaga evening dress displayed on a pedestal or in a glass case in a museum has some of the aura of a work of art, although it was produced within the fashion system, not the art world. The exhibition …
Fashion is perhaps the proverbial Pandora’s box. In opening it up to scutiny, its colours, fabrics and enchantments fly out along with all their magical, seductive and even nerve jangling meanings that – try as one might – one can never contain again.That is its fascination and indeed its difficulty – its lack of parameters, …
Two literary quotations: The first is from Yeats, and here we encounter the complicity of culture:Many times man lives and diesBetween his two eternities,That of race and that of soul,And ancient Ireland knew it all.Here we find ‘race’ being used in its most traditional sense, as lineage: although by the 1930s even this could not …
The fashion scene has been in crisis since the JCPOA and besides, the sanctions were raised, and after the corona took over, the fashion scene was on the verge of disappearing. Also, globally, until last year, all the runways were closed and no clothes were shown live. This created a new scene in the fashion …
In one of my collection I examine “eco-feminism” notion. Trees, forests, and deforestation. Water, drought, and desertification. Food production, poverty, and toxic wastes. Environmental destruction and women. And women? What do these environmental issues have to do with women? Ecological feminism is the position that there are important connections between how one treats women, people …
“My Right Eye” is about how the music industry influenced fashion through history. In the contemporary era, we have pop icons who directly promote a new look. But there are other singers/artists who are in the margin but still have an important impact on the mainstream of fashion. In recent years we see more non-binary …
This collection is about the representation of mental distress, specifically bipolar disorder in the media today. Bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia constitute the twin pillars of classically defined psychosis. As Goodwin and Jamison (1990) point out, Kraepelin’s (somewhat unintentional) legacy has divided psychotic illness into two entities, schizophrenia and manic depression. This can leave many …
“False Dichotomy” is the subject of one of my collection about informal, correlative-based fallacy. A dichotomy is a division into two alternatives; for example, all fish are either scaly or non-scaly. A false dichotomy occurs when someone sets up a dichotomy in such a way that it appears there are only two possible conclusions when …
The song Respect makes me think about the myriad of images that have been used both by ‘white’ people and Black men not only to deny the black women respect but to dominate them (Franklin 1967). Portraying Black women as sexually denigrated has been central to the ideological justification for systems of racism, sexism, heterosexism …