My academic work explores innovation, culture, and the evolution of creative forms. I am interested in how ideas survive, adapt, and circulate across time, geography, and social worlds.
I approach research as a form of observation rather than domination. Data, like people, reveals its patterns when treated with patience and curiosity.
Latest Posts
The Seven-Second Veil: Salome in the Age of the Algorithm
Salome’s ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ was originally a high-stakes transaction for a singular, royal audience. Today, that performance has been industrialised. The ‘veils’ are now seven-second TikTok loops, and King Herod has been replaced by the Algorithm.
The Architecture of Melancholy: From Beethoven to Linkin Park
Before we had the baggy clothes and distorted guitars of the 2000s to scream our frustrations, we had Lord Byron wandering the terrain of Aberdeenshire, providing the blueprint for the ‘solitary man’ haunted by his own shadow.
Shima Trisna 