T P A Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 48498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T P A Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | T P A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER T P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6224-2983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imamat in stone: Theologies of the present in the Karakoram Mountains
In Pakistan's Karakoram Mountain range, two Shi'i Muslim communities write monumental messages in stone. Nizari Isma'ilis celebrate the continuation of their Imamate, a divine political institution led by a Hazar [present] Imam. Twelver Shi'a signal their loyalty to their own system of Imamat, which paused at the concealed twelfth Imam whose return promises to restore justice to the world. Shi'i mountain writing is found in direct conversation, s…
The situation of the interface: Pashto master copies and data migration in Sharjah
A master copy is an artifact whose quality or value carries over to the copies it engenders. In the United Arab Emirates, home to a marketplace trade in Pashto-language film and music, master copy also refers to the context of the artifact's accessibility; it describes a print made from a medium-such as a celluloid film, an audiocassette, or a vinyl record-considered to hold the earliest or highest-quality recording. Situated at a narrowing analo…
Faezi, Daniel Asadi (dir.). The absence of apricots. 49 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2018. £5.00 (VOD rental)
Recitations on the Threshold: The Ethics and Virtue Affects of Pakistani ShiʿiQaṣīda
The style of recitation known as qaṣīda, popular among Shiʿi Muslims in the Pakistani province of Punjab, discloses love for the Ahl-e Bait, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and rejection of those who harmed them. Examining the conditions through which the Shiʿa celebrate and disclose their faith, this article traces the recent history and contemporary form of a genre of panegyric recitation and its relationship with the different moral and af…
Mood as medium: "Reconstruction and the material speculations of "new heritage
If the politics of aspirational construction appeal to the enchantment of infrastructure, reconstruction usually takes as given an environment of post-conflict, natural disaster, or the degradation of systems of preservation or resource management. If construction and conservation are taken as markers of continuity and political stability what does the urge to build again say about those who exert these ideas in advancement of a set of common goa…
Live has an atmosphere of its own: Azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi'i media praxis
Among producers of Shi'i Islamic media in Pakistan, the quality of being live as an atmosphere capable of mediation has gained efficacy along with changes in media for religious dispensation. Central to the importance of live recordings are the ways they are perceived to most effectively mediate the ethical, ritual, and transhistorical contours of azadari, a word that describes the ways in which the personages held in esteem by the Shi'a are mour…
Essence in excess: Heritage and the Problem of Potentiality
Bille, M. 2019. Being Bedouin around Petra: life at a World Heritage Site in the twenty-first century. New York: Berghahn Books. 210 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 9781789201208. Meyer, B. and Port, M. (eds.) 2018. Sense and essence: heritage and the cultural production of the real. New York: Berghahn Books. Pb.: US$34.95. ISBN: 9781785339400. How is heritage manifested and made present in the world? How is this presence made knowable to others outsid…
DZiyarat: Lenticularity and technologies of the moving image in material and visual piety
Images in movement and images of movement take a central place in iterations of Islamic material and visual piety. Yet the still image remains the default object of inquiry in most studies of devotional visuality. Taking movement rather than stasis as the prerequisite for engagement, many popular decorative items and technologies that share the status of “moving images” evoke the affective experience of pilgrimage. In what follows, close analysis…
TheKaččāand thePakkā: Disenchanting the Film Event in Pakistan
For many city dwellers in Pakistan the distant memory of outdoor cinemas in their ancestral villages rekindles the thrill of first contact with film exhibition. This paper considers attempts made in colonial British India and postcolonial Pakistan to understand, wield, and benefit from the staging of such memorable and affective filmic events. In its cultivation of 'cinema-minded' subjects, the British Empire commissioned studies of audiences and…
Tide Times: Responding to Cramond
This article explores site-responsiveness in the context of a collaborative work, Tide Times, by Laura Bissell (writer) and Timothy Cooper (electroacoustic composer) created for the island of Cramond. In this co-written submission we examine the ways in which the work responded to our experience of exploring the tidal island on the East Coast of Scotland during five visits between April and August 2018. Contextualising Tide Times through Ingold’s…
CinemaItself: Cinephobia, Filmic Anxieties, and Ontologies of the Moving Image in Pakistan
Anxieties over the particular ontology and materiality of the film image—rather than moral concerns over the co-mingling of bodies in the built and social space of the cinema—have been addressed by two formative figures in the philosophy of Pakistan as a political and religious idea: Muhammad Iqbal and Syed Abul A'la Maududi. Their arguments provide two divergent examples of the ways in which the permissibility of film in Pakistan has been expres…
Migratory Surfaces: An Informal Visual Economy and the Repair of the Colonial Archive
Research Article| May 01 2015 Migratory Surfaces: An Informal Visual Economy and the Repair of the Colonial Archive Timothy P. A. Cooper Timothy P. A. Cooper TIMOTHY P. A. COOPER is an independent programmer, journalist, and researcher based in London, UK, exploring notions of immersion, assimilation, and citizenship, especially in the context of moving image media, transnational communication, and the role of cultural heritage in post-conflict s…
Live has an atmosphere of its own: Azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi'i media praxis
Among producers of Shi'i Islamic media in Pakistan, the quality of being live as an atmosphere capable of mediation has gained efficacy along with changes in media for religious dispensation. Central to the importance of live recordings are the ways they are perceived to most effectively mediate the ethical, ritual, and transhistorical contours of azadari, a word that describes the ways in which the personages held in esteem by the Shi'a are mour…
DZiyarat: Lenticularity and technologies of the moving image in material and visual piety
Images in movement and images of movement take a central place in iterations of Islamic material and visual piety. Yet the still image remains the default object of inquiry in most studies of devotional visuality. Taking movement rather than stasis as the prerequisite for engagement, many popular decorative items and technologies that share the status of “moving images” evoke the affective experience of pilgrimage. In what follows, close analysis…
CinemaItself: Cinephobia, Filmic Anxieties, and Ontologies of the Moving Image in Pakistan
Anxieties over the particular ontology and materiality of the film image—rather than moral concerns over the co-mingling of bodies in the built and social space of the cinema—have been addressed by two formative figures in the philosophy of Pakistan as a political and religious idea: Muhammad Iqbal and Syed Abul A'la Maududi. Their arguments provide two divergent examples of the ways in which the permissibility of film in Pakistan has been expres…
Recitations on the Threshold: The Ethics and Virtue Affects of Pakistani ShiʿiQaṣīda
The style of recitation known as qaṣīda, popular among Shiʿi Muslims in the Pakistani province of Punjab, discloses love for the Ahl-e Bait, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and rejection of those who harmed them. Examining the conditions through which the Shiʿa celebrate and disclose their faith, this article traces the recent history and contemporary form of a genre of panegyric recitation and its relationship with the different moral and af…
TheKaččāand thePakkā: Disenchanting the Film Event in Pakistan
For many city dwellers in Pakistan the distant memory of outdoor cinemas in their ancestral villages rekindles the thrill of first contact with film exhibition. This paper considers attempts made in colonial British India and postcolonial Pakistan to understand, wield, and benefit from the staging of such memorable and affective filmic events. In its cultivation of 'cinema-minded' subjects, the British Empire commissioned studies of audiences and…
Migratory Surfaces: An Informal Visual Economy and the Repair of the Colonial Archive
Research Article| May 01 2015 Migratory Surfaces: An Informal Visual Economy and the Repair of the Colonial Archive Timothy P. A. Cooper Timothy P. A. Cooper TIMOTHY P. A. COOPER is an independent programmer, journalist, and researcher based in London, UK, exploring notions of immersion, assimilation, and citizenship, especially in the context of moving image media, transnational communication, and the role of cultural heritage in post-conflict s…
CinemaItself: Cinephobia, Filmic Anxieties, and Ontologies of the Moving Image in Pakistan
Anxieties over the particular ontology and materiality of the film image—rather than moral concerns over the co-mingling of bodies in the built and social space of the cinema—have been addressed by two formative figures in the philosophy of Pakistan as a political and religious idea: Muhammad Iqbal and Syed Abul A'la Maududi. Their arguments provide two divergent examples of the ways in which the permissibility of film in Pakistan has been expres…
Tide Times: Responding to Cramond
This article explores site-responsiveness in the context of a collaborative work, Tide Times, by Laura Bissell (writer) and Timothy Cooper (electroacoustic composer) created for the island of Cramond. In this co-written submission we examine the ways in which the work responded to our experience of exploring the tidal island on the East Coast of Scotland during five visits between April and August 2018. Contextualising Tide Times through Ingold’s…
TheKaččāand thePakkā: Disenchanting the Film Event in Pakistan
For many city dwellers in Pakistan the distant memory of outdoor cinemas in their ancestral villages rekindles the thrill of first contact with film exhibition. This paper considers attempts made in colonial British India and postcolonial Pakistan to understand, wield, and benefit from the staging of such memorable and affective filmic events. In its cultivation of 'cinema-minded' subjects, the British Empire commissioned studies of audiences and…
Essence in excess: Heritage and the Problem of Potentiality
Bille, M. 2019. Being Bedouin around Petra: life at a World Heritage Site in the twenty-first century. New York: Berghahn Books. 210 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 9781789201208. Meyer, B. and Port, M. (eds.) 2018. Sense and essence: heritage and the cultural production of the real. New York: Berghahn Books. Pb.: US$34.95. ISBN: 9781785339400. How is heritage manifested and made present in the world? How is this presence made knowable to others outsid…
DZiyarat: Lenticularity and technologies of the moving image in material and visual piety
Images in movement and images of movement take a central place in iterations of Islamic material and visual piety. Yet the still image remains the default object of inquiry in most studies of devotional visuality. Taking movement rather than stasis as the prerequisite for engagement, many popular decorative items and technologies that share the status of “moving images” evoke the affective experience of pilgrimage. In what follows, close analysis…
Mood as medium: "Reconstruction and the material speculations of "new heritage
If the politics of aspirational construction appeal to the enchantment of infrastructure, reconstruction usually takes as given an environment of post-conflict, natural disaster, or the degradation of systems of preservation or resource management. If construction and conservation are taken as markers of continuity and political stability what does the urge to build again say about those who exert these ideas in advancement of a set of common goa…
Live has an atmosphere of its own: Azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi'i media praxis
Among producers of Shi'i Islamic media in Pakistan, the quality of being live as an atmosphere capable of mediation has gained efficacy along with changes in media for religious dispensation. Central to the importance of live recordings are the ways they are perceived to most effectively mediate the ethical, ritual, and transhistorical contours of azadari, a word that describes the ways in which the personages held in esteem by the Shi'a are mour…
Faezi, Daniel Asadi (dir.). The absence of apricots. 49 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2018. £5.00 (VOD rental)
Recitations on the Threshold: The Ethics and Virtue Affects of Pakistani ShiʿiQaṣīda
The style of recitation known as qaṣīda, popular among Shiʿi Muslims in the Pakistani province of Punjab, discloses love for the Ahl-e Bait, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and rejection of those who harmed them. Examining the conditions through which the Shiʿa celebrate and disclose their faith, this article traces the recent history and contemporary form of a genre of panegyric recitation and its relationship with the different moral and af…
The situation of the interface: Pashto master copies and data migration in Sharjah
A master copy is an artifact whose quality or value carries over to the copies it engenders. In the United Arab Emirates, home to a marketplace trade in Pashto-language film and music, master copy also refers to the context of the artifact's accessibility; it describes a print made from a medium-such as a celluloid film, an audiocassette, or a vinyl record-considered to hold the earliest or highest-quality recording. Situated at a narrowing analo…
Imamat in stone: Theologies of the present in the Karakoram Mountains
In Pakistan's Karakoram Mountain range, two Shi'i Muslim communities write monumental messages in stone. Nizari Isma'ilis celebrate the continuation of their Imamate, a divine political institution led by a Hazar [present] Imam. Twelver Shi'a signal their loyalty to their own system of Imamat, which paused at the concealed twelfth Imam whose return promises to restore justice to the world. Shi'i mountain writing is found in direct conversation, s…
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