Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist and Program Director at the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley (USA).

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Doughnut

Theorizing the Contemporary

Doughnut

The London Underground map, designed by Harry Beck in 1931, is one of Britain’s top ten design icons. Graphically innovative, it was the first transport map to ... More

Speaking Volumes

Theorizing the Contemporary

Speaking Volumes

Having engaged with the recent volumetric turn in architecture and political geography, anthropologists are increasingly concerned with realms such as air, oc... More

Introduction: Speaking Volumes

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: Speaking Volumes

From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice fl... More

Sectional

Theorizing the Contemporary

Sectional

Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau are two cities enmeshed into one another. Baarle-Hertog is Belgian territory, surrounded—and fractured—by Baarle-Nassau, a city ... More