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What Lay in the Abyss – A Faint Light in the Dark of Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing
Get PDFÄhnlich wie frühere Publikationen von T.J. Demos ist Beyond the World\u27s End - Arts of Living at the Crossing ein dringender Aufruf zum Handeln, der in Richtung radikaler ästhetischer Praxis nach pragmatischen Lösungen für die Krise des Klimawandels sucht. Diese Zusammenstellung überarbeiteter, bereits veröffentlichter Artikel besteht aus eingehenden Lektüren zeitgenössischer Kunstwerke und sozialer Bewegungen, die als Fallstudien fungieren, aus denen Demos sein Konzept der Ökologie-als-Intersektionalität entwickelt und demonstriert, eine Verschmelzung von politischer Ökologie, Critical Race Theory und Dekolonialität.Similar to previous publications of T.J. Demos, Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing, is an urgent call to action that looks towards radical aesthetic practice for pragmatic solutions to the climate change crisis. This compilation of revised, previously published articles consists of close readings of contemporary artworks and social movements that act as case studies from which Demos develops and demonstrates his concept of ecology-as-intersectionality, an amalgamation of political ecology, critical race theory, and decoloniality
The Man and the Office: How Kenyatta Shaped Presidential Power in Kenya
Get PDFAnaïs Angelos kürzlich erschienene Biographie von Jomo Kenyatta, Power and the Presidency in Kenya, ist ebenso illustrativ für Kenias ersten Präsidenten wie für das Exekutivbüro, das seine Präsidentschaft überlebt. Angelo argumentiert, dass Kenyattas "discreet and distant" politischer Stil gepaart mit seiner zweideutigen Beziehung zu Mau Mau es Kenyatta ermöglichte, Kenia ohne eine nationalistische Vision zu vereinen. Während er sich von den technischen Aspekten der Herrschaft fernhielt, konsolidierte sich Kenyattas Autorität über nationale Ressourcen während seiner Präsidentschaft.Anaïs Angelo’s recent biography of Jomo Kenyatta, Power and the Presidency in Kenya, is as illustrative of Kenya’s first president as it is of the executive office that outlives his presidency. Angelo argues that Kenyatta’s “discreet and distant” political style paired with his ambiguous relationship to Mau Mau enabled Kenyatta to unite Kenya without a nationalist vision. While he remained distant from the technical aspects of rule, rather delegating them to others, Kenyatta’s authority over national resources consolidated during his presidency
Internationalizing Soviet Preservationism: A New Perspective on the Practices of Heritage Conservation in Russia
Get PDFDiese Rezension analysiert das Buch Building a Common Past. World Heritage in Russia under Transformation, 1965–2000 von Corinne Geering. Die Autorin präsentiert darin eine umfassende Geschichte der späten sowjetischen und frühen russischen staatlichen Praktiken der Denkmalpflege aus einer internationalen Perspektive. Die Monographie stellt nicht nur einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Historiographie verschiedener historischer Felder dar, sondern überdenkt auch die Grenzen eines nationalen Rahmens und das Narrativ des Kalten Krieges.This review analyzes the book by Corinne Geering Building a Common Past: World Heritage in Russia under Transformation, 1965–2000. Based on a multi-layer approach, the author presents a comprehensive history of the late Soviet and early Russian state practices of heritage preservation from an international perspective. The monograph constitutes a valuable contribution to the historiographies of many historical fields, reconsidering the boundaries of a national framework and the Cold War narratives
"Polimorfi e poligami e un po’ anche polipi.": Representations of Ambiguous Masculinity in Late 1970s Bologna
Get PDFCultural studies are underlining ambiguity and fluidity concepts to grasp how gender narratives have been changing since the upheaval of 1968. Scholars have acknowledged that traditional masculinity has been challenged and remolded as a result of second-wave feminism. However, representations of masculinity have yet to be examined in one of the key moments of postwar Italian culture: the sociopolitical turmoil of the late 1970s. Bologna was the center of the Italian Movement of 1977. Its subcultural scene flourished thanks to the confluence of young creatives at the DAMS University of Bologna, where Umberto Eco taught. The symbolic productions of this scene provide brilliant portrayals of the reshaping of gender becoming ambiguous and fluid. This article examines the literary representations of masculinity in exemplary works by the three most notable authors tied to subcultural Bologna: Andrea Pazienza, Enrico Palandri, and Pier Vittorio Tondelli. My argument is that their narrative constructions of masculinity reveal three remarkably different reactions to second-wave feminism and to the challenging and remolding of gender in the late 1970s. These reactions are a tendency towards resentful and sarcastic rejection of pro-feminist discomfort, an aestheticizing acceptance of melancholic and ambiguous masculinities, and a postmodern turn towards the conception of gender fluidity. Furthermore, displacement, ambiguity and fluidity can be observed in the mixed language and experimental syntax. In doing so, this paper sheds new light on the transition toward postmodern and backlash gender narratives in the subsequent decade
A_Sociality as a Model Figure of Ambiguity
Get PDFAmbiguity has been the guiding motive of my queer theoretical considerations from the very beginning. Early on I propose to characterize queer politics through strategies of undisambiguation or equivocation (VerUneindeutigung) rather than diversification or abolishment of heteronormative sexual difference (Engel 2002). In the essay I will reconstruct the different epistemological steps from undisambiguation through queer politics of paradox to what I call today ‘queerness as lived ambiguity’. I will explicate how the notion of ambiguity fulfills a double function in queer theory, namely underlining ambiguity’s livability (multidimensional identities are neither stable nor coherent) and explaining its political potential (overcoming clear-cut borders and simplified antagonisms). In the main part of the essay I will focus on a_sociality as figure of ambiguity, arguing that queerness as lived ambiguity goes along with an understanding of relationality and kinship defined by a continuum or simultaneity of sociality, anti-sociality, and asociality, named a_sociality. My thesis is that in avowing the ambiguity of a_sociality it becomes possible to move towards forms of cohabitation under conditions of social and global heterogeneity. However, a_sociality is defined not only by ambiguity but also by ambivalence. It is from this proximate though distinct relation that politics evolve. What Judith Butler (2020) discusses as an ethical attitude of ‘aggressive nonviolence’ turns out to be an ambiguous term that fosters decisions that simultaneously acknowledge and overcome ambivalence
Mind-Game as Zeitgeist: Reading Hollywood, America, and Contemporary Times Through its Popular Culture
Get PDFThomas Elsaessers posthume Publikation The Mind-Game Film. Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology vereint in 12 Artikeln seine einflussreichsten und faszinierendsten Gedanken zum zeitgenössischen komplexen Film Hollywoods. Das Buch bietet einen kaleidoskopischen Blick auf den heterogenen Filmkorpus, den Elsaesser als symptomatisch für institutionelle, politische, ideologische und soziokulturelle Belange Amerikas und der Welt sieht und zeichnet damit den U.S.-amerikanischen Zeitgeist anhand seiner Populärkultur nach.Thomas Elsaesser’s posthumous publication The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology unites 12 articles of his most influential and intriguing thoughts on contemporary complex Hollywood cinema. The book offers a kaleidoscopic view on the heterogeneous corpus of films that Elsaesser perceives as symptomatic of institutional, political, ideological, and socio-cultural concerns of America and the world. In this, Elsaesser does not merely analyze mind-game films, but canvases the U.S. American zeitgeist through its popular culture
Overcoming Species-oriented Thinking in Learning and Teaching
Get PDFWie kann das spezies-orientierte Denken und Handeln im Lehren und Lernen überwunden werden? Wie können wir Lernprozesse gestalten, in denen der Tierschutz sowie die Tierrechtsbildung von vornherein verankert sind? Während sich der vorliegende interdisziplinäre Sammelband diesen Fragen widmet, formulieren die Beiträge kreative Leitlinien und verweisen auf Handlungsmöglichkeiten für interspeziesfähige Lehr- und Lernprozesse.How can we overcome the species-oriented mindset in teaching and learning? Can we design learning processes in which the welfare of animals is seen as the fundamental principle to begin with? While focusing on such questions in an interdisciplinary field, this anthology showcases creative and concrete guidelines to tackle the problem of species-oriented thinking
Neoliberal Values and Traditional Gender Roles: The Construction of Resilience after 3.11 Japan
Get PDFDas Buch von Mire Koikari analysiert die kulturelle Produktion in Japan nach der Katastrophe vom März 2011 und wirft einen kritischen Blick auf die Werte, Diskurse und Praktiken, die der Aufbau einer Kultur der Resilienz in Japan hervorgebracht hat. Koikari argumentiert, dass die neuen Impulse für eine Politik der Resilienz weit davon entfernt sind, eine unparteiische und einheitliche Praxis zu sein, sondern betont vor allem, dass neoliberale Werte und traditionelle Geschlechterrollen starken Zuspruch erfahren hätten.Mire Koikari’s book analyzes cultural production in Japan after the disaster that took place in March 2011. The book proposes a critical look at values, discourses, and practices in constructing a culture of resilience in Japan. Far from being an impartial and uniform practice, Koikari argues that the new impetus for the politics of resilience has also deepened neoliberal values and traditional gender roles
Blogging to Let Go: Illness Blogging, Mothering and Terminal Cancer
No full textIllness memoirs gained popularity in the last decades of the 20th century. From the early 21st century, illness narratives proliferate online. This article examines illness life writing and near-death narratives by mothers living with stage IV cancer. I read two blogs, Suspicious Country by Nina Riggs and Julie Yip-Williams: My Cancer Fighting Journey by Julie Yip-Williams, and their published memoirs. I draw from life writing studies, motherhood studies, queer death studies, and narrative medicine, analyzing the overlap of mothering and illness in the contexts of life writing and medicine. Working with Eve Sedgwick’s reparative practice, I suggest that while illness, dying, and mothering appear incompatible at first, narrating from this position holds the possibility of sustenance and the potential for redefining how stories of ill and dying mothers are told. The blogs and memoirs are counter-narratives to the healing imperatives and closure demanded by the normative cancer narrative. They flesh out an approach to living with illness and dying, while writing about it. The article illustrates how illness blogging constructs an entangled story of grief, loss, and joy which becomes an instrument in living with the acute awareness of dying