Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Metaphor

  1. Suprematist architecture is presented as speculative world-making
    Study reframes Soviet Suprematist architecture as systematic speculative inquiry into cosmic space and post-human inhabitation, transcending conventional architectural constraints.
  2. Negara kesatuan is framed as rooted in folk religious sensibility
    Analysis of negara kesatuan as a unitary state concept grounded in Indonesian folk religious theology rather than Western political theory, centered on the mystical metaphor of divine-human unity.
  3. Hani marriage tokens shift from objects to symbols
    Explore how Hani marriage artifacts Riyue Pan and Pa An encode cultural memory and cosmological knowledge through symbolic coding and semiotic analysis in oral-transmission societies.
  4. Language(s) of War: A Discursive Framework for the Linguistic Construction of Interstate Conflict
    Explores how language and discourse actively construct interstate conflict, analyzing militarized metaphors and security framings that normalize war despite legal prohibitions against violence.