Emotional Environments: Selective Permeability,Political Affordances and Normative Settings

Topoi - I begin this article with an increasingly accepted claim: that emotions lend differential weight to states of affairs, helping us conceptually carve the world and make rational decisions. I...     

Contours of Cairo Revolt: Street Semiology,Values and Political Affordances

Topoi - This article contemplates symbols and values inscribed on Cairo’s landscape during the 2011 revolution and the period since, focusing on Tahrir Square and the role of the Egyptian...