Two metaphors, both equally decrepit, are alternately deployed in discussions of “place” in the Gulf Arab states: on the one hand, the notion of a tabula rasa, and, on the other hand, an attachment to a codified narrative of historical and cultural sitedness. Rem Koolhaas exemplified the former ..
Caitlin Woolsey
Caitlin Woolsey is a PhD candidate in History of Art at Yale University. Her research revolves around the intersection of sound and experimental collage practices in postwar Paris. Her critical writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Continental Philosophy Review.