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Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century
No full textThis article examines the newsletter‐writing practices of the Hardwicke circle, the intellectual coterie centred on Philip Yorke, 2nd earl of Hardwicke (1720–90), and Thomas Birch (1705–66). It begins by examining the ‘Weekly Letter’ written between Birch and Yorke from 1741–66 (BL, Add. MS 35,396‐35,400). This comprised a letter written by Birch every Saturday when Yorke was not in London, describing the political and literary events of the week, together with Yorke's less regular replies. In form the Weekly Letter was modelled on a historical example of the scribal newsletter, itself a significant focus of the historical research of the Hardwicke circle. Yorke and Birch collected and preserved historical collections of 17th and 18th century scribal newsletters, as well as conducting research into the history of printed news. Yorke's interest in scribal news, encouraged by Birch's regular Weekly Letter, saw him subsequently establish an extensive network of newsletter correspondents on parliamentary affairs. As a case study of those interests, the article examines Yorke's ‘Paris alamain’, a commercial nouvelle à la main he secured from Paris through personal connections in France
Bodies in the Americas: Subjectivities and Identifications in Times of Polarization
No full textThis paper is structured as a dialogue with a variety of texts. Through an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, it will examine possible ways in which bodies are classified and framed -that is, constructed- as abnormal, deviant, and/or infirm, and their connection with categories such as exile, torture, and laceration. The intention is to rethink the meaning of the body and corporealities both as a space shaped by power and resistance. To think of these bodies, which appear to be defeated, as a space of firmness, obstinacy, rebellion, and resistance. The objective is to examine these constructions in order to generate new ways of thinking, looking, and feeling with and about the body in the reflective, creative, and meaning-making processes. As well as, on the basis of this research, to question the field of humanities and its methods of work. A genealogical methodology will be used to detect certain relevant points or events. Therefore, the aim here is not to draw a chronological line of events and reach a predefined objective, but to highlight (and reveal) moments, which are presented as an articulation of elements and which contain the capacity to provoke changes, reflections, and new researches. The authors to be discussed are: Cristina Peri Rosi: Cristina Peri Rosi, Txus García, Alejandra Pizarnik, Rita Segato, Juan Gelman and Jaques Derrida.El presente trabajo se articula partiendo de un diálogo con diversos textos. Mediante un enfoque interdisciplinario e interseccional se examinarán posibles formas en que los cuerpos son clasificados y definidos -es decir construidos- como anormales, desviados y/o enfermos y su vínculo con categorías como exilio, tortura y desgarramiento. La intención es repensar el sentido del cuerpo y las corporalidades no solo como un espacio normado por el poder sino también resistente. Pensar estos cuerpos, al parecer derrotados, como territorio de firmeza, obstinación, rebelión y resistencia. El objetivo es interrogar estas construcciones para generar nuevas posibilidades de pensar, mirar y sentir con y sobre el cuerpo en los procesos reflexivos, creativos y de construcción de sentido. Como así también, desde dicha interrogación, interpelar a las humanidades y sus sistemas de trabajo. Se utilizará una metodología genealógica para detectar ciertos puntos o acontecimientos relevantes. No se tratará entonces de marcar una línea cronológica de hechos y de llegar a un objetivo prefijado, sino de relevar (y revelar) momentos, que se presentan como articulación de elementos y que contienen la capacidad de provocar cambios, reflexiones y nuevas búsquedas. Lxs autorxs que se abordarán serán: Cristina Peri Rosi, Txus García, Alejandra Pizarnik, Rita Segato, Juan Gelman y Jaques Derrida.An English version of the article, translated by Elizaveta Shkredova, is included in this document
Yet Another Legacy of Canada's Residential School System
No full textThe residential school system, created by the Canadian government and run by Christian churches, was in place from the 1870s to 1996 and marks one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history. Forcibly removed from their families and homes, the more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children who went through the residential school system lost their languages, their traditions, and their cultural practices in the process. Supposed to convert Indigenous youths to a Euro-Canadian way of life, residential schools were often located far from the children’s home reserves, a fact that further facilitated the children’s emotional, physical, and sexual abuse by church educators. The aftershocks of such brutality manifest themselves to this day in an exceptionally high rate of suicides among the survivors’ children and grandchildren
Amartya Sen & George Anastaplo on Literature, Law, and the Idea of Justice
No full textBoth Professor Anastaplo and Professor Sen would agree that a crisis regarding justice exists in the contemporary world. Each of these scholars has endeavored in their work to address this crisis, in one way or another. For Professor Sen, the crisis is global in scope, and its solution also needs to be global. For Professor Anastaplo, the crisis of justice is local, and situatied in the West, and is a consequence of the break from the Western classical tradition of political philosophy and the way it treated justice, a break for which Niccolò Machiavelli can be considered initially responsible. This essay contrasts the thought of these preeminent scholars on justice, without attempting to prefer one's view over the other
British and Continental Approaches to Intellectual History
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Bodies in the Americas: Subjectivities and Identifications in Times of Polarization
No full textTattooing in a foreign language has become more popular in countries like Colombia. Due to the rare command of a second language among the inhabitants of Bogotá and Colombia, the interest of this research arises to analyse the implications of a tattoo made in a foreign language. As a result, it is affirmed that tattooing in a foreign language is a practice that responds to the dynamic recognition of cultural hierarchy of languages, as well as to social constructions of gender that are reaffirmed through the characteristics of tattoos. Thus, the actions that the subject performs on his body are loaded with certain values that the subjects identify and decide to carry in his/her body.El tatuaje en un idioma extranjero es un fenómeno que ha aumentado su popularidad en países como Colombia. Debido al poco frecuente dominio de una segunda lengua entre los habitantes de Bogotá y de Colombia, surge el interés de esta investigación de analizar las implicaciones de un tatuaje realizado en una lengua extranjera. Como resultado, se afirma que el tatuaje en un idioma extranjero es una práctica que responde a dinámicas del reconocimiento de la jerarquía cultural de las lenguas, así como a construcciones sociales de género que se reafirman a través de las características de los tatuajes. Así, las acciones que realiza el sujeto sobre su cuerpo están cargadas de ciertos valores que el sujeto identifica y decide portar en su cuerpo.An English version of the article, translated by Patricia Arancibia, is included in this document
Dorothee Klein: Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction
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No full textZip file deposted by SWORD without accompanying metadataThis article explores Rosanna Raymond’s performative intervention titled “Soli I Tai—Soli I Uta” (Tread on the Sea—Tread on the Land). Today, many cultural institutions try to develop progressive strategies to facilitate “intercultural dialogue.” In this endeavor, performative strategies are explored, some of which are developed in collaboration with experts from so‐called “source communities.” Such collaborations have longer histories in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, or Canada. In central Europe, and especially in Germany, this has been a more recent development. One prominent example is the one‐month artist residency of the Pacific artist Rosanna Raymond (b. 1967) at the Ethnological Museum Berlin in 2014, which culminated in her “acti.VA.tion” entitled “Soli I Tai—Soli I Uta.” My article analyzes how Raymond’s performative intervention dramaturgically put different epistemic systems and “ways of knowing” into a contrasting relationship and thus enabled spectators to gain declarative epistemic knowledge, that is to say, knowledge about knowledge and different “ways of knowing.