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From the Pole to the Equator: Encounters with the Nonhuman in Nineteenth-Century Italian Narratives of Polar Exploration
No full textThis paper examines depictions of wildlife in accounts of Italian polar exploration—both factual and fictive—at the turn of the 20th century, applying a posthumanist ecocritical perspective to a cultural imaginary encompassing Emilio Salgari’s adventure writings as well as colonial exploration’s science and practice. It begins with two sources revealing an era of exploration marked by implicit animal violence: avant-garde filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s Dal polo all’equatore (1986), a reframed version of colonial footage by Luca Comerio, and the chronicle of the Italian North Pole expedition led by the Duke of Abruzzi (1899–1901). Comparative analysis then turns to Salgari’s polar fiction, re-evaluated here as an aspirational vision privileging wildlife observation. I argue for a recalibration of human-animal interactions, highlighting how figurations of accounts of human animal cruelty and animal awareness interweave with the actions of explorers who alternately harmed or protected wildlife
Andrea G. G. Parasiliti. All’ombra del vulcano: Il Futurismo in Sicilia e l’Etna di Marinetti
No full text« Qu\u27est-ce que la bibliothéconomie progressiste aujourd\u27hui ? »
No full textA recent book, Contemporary Democratic Theory, is about the decline of democracy. Not an explanation of the phenomenon, but rather a look at how democratic theory has responded. This paper adapts that approach. The context of progressive librarianship (PL) has likewise shifted and consolidated with the results of the 2024 US presidential election and its aftermath. This is not localized or short term, it is global and persistent—and for democracy as well as libraries. The time has come to step back and ask the equivalent questions to that book on democratic theory: what is PL now? How did PL adapt and how might PL adapt? Efforts to document the work of and define PL began in response to “considerable ambiguity about just what constitutes progressive librarianship”—an inquiry conducted over the course of 15 years. It revealed that PL is an umbrella term describing both scholarship and organizational activities, gathering together many labels, if not always comfortably. This paper traces those paths, and based on that history suggests ones for PL to take, and perhaps as important, not to take.Un livre récent, Contemporary Democratic Theory, traite du déclin de la démocratie. Pas une explication du phénomène, mais plutôt un aperçu de la réaction de la théorie démocratique. Le présent document adapte cette approche. Le contexte de la bibliothéconomie progressiste (BP) a aussi vu des mutations et consolidations avec les résultats de l\u27élection présidentielle américaine de 2024 et ses conséquences. Il ne s\u27agit pas d\u27un phénomène localisé ou à court terme, mais d\u27un phénomène mondial et persistant, tant pour la démocratie que pour les bibliothèques. Le moment est venu de prendre du recul et de poser les questions équivalentes à ce livre sur la théorie démocratique : qu\u27est-ce que la BP aujourd\u27hui ? Comment la BP s\u27est-elle adaptée et comment la BP pourrait-elle s\u27adapter ? Les efforts pour définir la BP et documenter son travail ont commencé en réponse à « une ambiguïté considérable sur ce qui constitue exactement la bibliothéconomie progressiste », une enquête menée au cours des 15 dernières années. Elle a révélé que la BP est un terme générique décrivant à la fois la recherche et les activités organisationnelles, rassemblant de nombreuses étiquettes, même si cela n\u27est pas toujours facile. Cet article retrace ces chemins et, sur la base de cette histoire, suggère ceux que la BP devrait emprunter, et peut-être tout aussi important, ceux qu\u27elle ne devrait pas emprunter
Institutional Religious Obstructions to Health Care: Does the Charter Apply?
No full textBefore the prohibition on medically assisted dying (or “assisted dying”) in Canada was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in Carter v Canada, the Court held that the prohibition against assisted dying infringed a patient’s right to “life, liberty and security of the person” under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Despite assisted dying being legally allowed in Canada since 2016, religious-based health-care institutions in some provinces continue to place restrictions on the provision of assisted dying. Provincial policies require that patients interested in receiving a restricted procedure must be given an “effective referral” to gain access to that procedure outside of the religious institution. However, for Canada’s most vulnerable patients, a transfer from one institution to another is not logistically possible and precludes this group of Canadians from accessing a legal medical procedure. While religious institutional restrictions on assisted dying have not yet been challenged at the SCC, it is possible that these restrictions could be found to infringe a patient’s Charter rights for the same reasons the Court provided in Carter. The SCC has ruled on the application of the Charter to health-care institutions in two previous cases: Stoffman v Vancouver General Hospital and Eldridge v British Columbia. This article analogizes the reasoning from those two cases to the context of institutional religious restrictions to health care. Although the Charter was not held to apply to the policy in question in Stoffman, the Court’s discussion of the differences between public and private actions left open the possibility that hospitals could be subject to the Charter in the future. In contrast, the Charter was held to apply to the hospital in Eldridge. The Court held that, because hospitals are the vehicle by which the government delivers a comprehensive social program, in “providing medically necessary services, hospitals carry out a specific governmental objective.” Relying on the reasoning from these two cases, institutional religious restrictions would likely be found to impede access to health services. The precisely defined connection between the hospital’s restrictions and the government’s objective of delivering health care (a comprehensive social program) would likely result in the restrictions being subject to Charter scrutiny. Every single Canadian will one day face the end of their life. Any individual interested in exercising their right to an assisted dying procedure should not be restricted by the religious affiliation of the medical institution where they happen to be receiving care
Cellular Narratives in Nuclear Time: On Living with the (Epigenetic) Memory of Trauma
No full textWith the imminent threat of nuclear arms race acceleration, and in the context of ongoing colonial nuclear violences, this paper seeks to trace the biological consequences for lives altered by the atom bomb, through Karen Barad’s agential realist ontology. To do this, I first present the paradigmatic development in the field researching the effects of radiation exposure, from direct genetic mutagenesis to the contribution of epigenetic responsivity. Based on the congruence of the epigenetic model with agential realism, I forward a speculative yet scientifically informed interpretation of epigenetic mechanisms as materially manifesting multiple temporalities of entangled events. To give a felt sense of the implications of this interpretation, it is diffractively read through a profound semi-autobiographic literary moment in Kyōko Hayashi’s novella From Trinity to Trinity, a testimony of the transformative effect of recontexualizing memories through their entanglements, as told by a survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. By introducing a different conceptualization of epigenetic function, I aim to share my deep appreciation of the richness of cellular biology, and to stir new imaginings congruent with the relational, entangled nature of epigenetic mechanisms. Thought through the processing of trauma, it may offer possibilities of living and dying otherwise
Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary section of Catalyst
No full textIn preparing the tenth anniversary section of Catalyst, the current editorial team met to reflect on the legacy, politico-ethical vision and future of the journal. Using the introduction to the inaugural issue as a prompt for our reflections, we discussed what makes the journal distinctive, how it has contributed to the field of technoscience, the intellectual inheritance of feminist scholarship on which our work builds and the generative associations materialised through the metaphor of a catalyst. Our discussion was also guided by the following questions:
What kind of topics do you observe are the most current within the field of feminist technosciences?
Since you started working at Catalyst, has your perception of feminist technoscience as a field changed? If so, how?
How does the current geo-political climate affect your thoughts on feminist technoscience and vice versa?
As wide-ranging and capacious as feminist technoscience, the discussion also included lively reflections on the catalytic qualities of bacteria and the ways in which they participate in life-giving processes of kin-making. In the spirit of capturing both the unique voices of the editorial team and the relational assemblage of the conversation as it unfolded, we present it below in conversation-style format. This opening discussion offers a rich companion piece to the reflections of former editorial teams presented in the anniversary section, surfacing the ways in which Catalyst continues to be a playground for alterity and a safe harbor in this historic moment