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After Trash: Temperament of Penicillium Societies
Full text linkThis _Perspective uses the Penicillium family as a case study to explore the interaction between life and the environment. It employs ethnography as a form of qualitative inquiry to track the migration, kinship, and living habits of Penicillium community residents. Sensory ethnography and go-along interviews serve as a method that allows delving into intimate social and personal aspects of the Penicillium family. Examining the process of bread becoming moldy to being discarded from a microscopic and microbial perspective is a potential way to dissipate dualistic thinking regarding life/matter, the human/non-human, and consciousness/action. Additionally, it prompts reflection on the ontology of language and reminds us that language does not belong solely to human beings. It enables us to rethink the boundaries of life as a form and its definition
Jesus, Why Does the Body Matter? Connecting the Passion of Christ and Peruvian Transgender Women through the Body: Connecting the Passion of Christ and Peruvian Transgender Women through the Body
No full textDie Theologin Elke Pahud de Mortanges analysiert die Darstellung der Passion Jesu mit Blick auf Erinnerung, Körper und Identität. Gaby, eine Transgender-Person und inkonstanter Buch-Guide, führt uns sowohl durch die Erinnerungskultur des Christentums als auch durch ihre eigene Geschichte und die der LGBTQ-Community in Peru. Die Autorin eröffnet neue multidisziplinäre Perspektiven für die christlich orientierten Memory und Gender Studies sowie das Embodiment-Konzept der Gegenwart.The theologian Elke Pahud de Mortanges analyzes the depiction of the Passion of Jesus in terms of memory, body and identity. Gaby, a transgender person and an inconstant guide in the book, leads us through the culture of memory of Christianity as well as through her own history and that of the LGBTQ community in Peru. The author opens up new multidisciplinary perspectives for Christian-oriented memory and gender studies, as well as for the concept of embodiment in the present
Crisscrossing of Buriad, Sakha, and Tyvan Nostalgia as the Path to Indigenous Solidarity
Full text linkMarjorie Mandelstam Balzers Buch Galvanizing Nostalgia? Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia untersucht die Beziehung zwischen nostalgischen Erinnerungen und ihrer mobilisierenden Kraft für die Indigenität und Souveränität dreier Republiken – Sacha (Jakutien), Burjatien und Tjowa (Tuwa). Die Implikationen des Buches sind nach wie vor von entscheidender Bedeutung, auch wenn kollektiver Aktivismus über die Grenzen von Republiken hinweg heute schwer zu erreichen ist, ist er doch unerlässlich, um das zu bewahren, was von ihrer Souveränität noch übrig geblieben ist.Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer’s book Galvanizing Nostalgia? Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia explores the relationship between the ‘prospective’ nature of nostalgic reminiscing and its mobilizing force in construction of indigeneity and strengthening sovereignty of three republics – Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, and Tyva (Tuva). The book’s implications remain crucial, even if today’s collective cross-republic activism is difficult to achieve, it is vital to maintaining what remains of their sovereignty
“Who Are the Rightful Inhabitants of this Earth?”: A Critical Analysis of Migration Representations and Border Practices
No full textLilie Chouliaraki und Myria Georgiou erforschen kritisch die Komplexitäten von Migration, Machtstrukturen und Technologie. Sie hinterfragen dominante Rationalitäten im Zusammenhang mit Migration und schlagen ein nuanciertes Verständnis von Grenzen als sowohl territorial als auch symbolisch vor. Der selbstreflexive Ansatz der Autorinnen und die Einbeziehung von Migrant_innenstimmen bereichern die Studie. Das Buch kritisiert aktuelle Theorien zur Dehumanisierung und Viktimisierung und bietet eine vielschichtige Perspektive auf Grenzpraktiken.Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou critically explore the complexities of migration, power relations, and technology. They challenge dominant rationalities surrounding migration, proposing a nuanced understanding of borders as both territorial and symbolic. The authors’ self-reflexive approach and inclusion of migrant voices adds depth to the study. The book critiques recent theories on dehumanization and victimization, offering a multi-layered perspective on border practices
Political Reading Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach on Characterizing a Certain Way of Reading
Full text linkEmpirical reading research lacks informed distinctions among different ways of reading, which often leads to generalized and superficial conclusions about the functionality of reading in society. This is also the case for political communication, which defines reading most often simply as the mental processing of textual political information. This article proposes a more elaborated, interdisciplinary framework to distinguish political reading as ‘different’ from other ways of reading based on common attributes of their reading objects. Thereby, political reading processes, demeanors, strategies, activities, and practices are induced as ‘political’ by pre-arranged combinations of typical communicative and material objects and designs
All That\u27s Left Behind: Black Ecological Interventions on Waste and Plastic
Full text linkThis _Article explores the racial and geographic dimensions of disposability and extractive use to conceptualize the contemporary relationship among waste, plastics, and people, particularly in the U.S. South. In their essay, “Mapping Black Ecologies,” JT Roane and Justin Hosbey argue that the eco-social knowledges within Black Southern and other African diasporic communities must frame interventions in the face of environmental crises. As a discipline, Black Ecologies offers a lens to analyze eco-social hauntings across space, time, and matter, providing flight paths beyond ecocidal futurity. Environmental justice scholarship demonstrates that the materiality of waste definitively and disproportionately impacts Black health. What is considered trash today is undoubtedly tied to a historical continuum of disposed-of matters, animate and otherwise, that precedes and exceeds a myopic understanding of ‘trash’ as plastic or other material waste. We argue that contemporary pollution often ends up in majority-Black elsewheres in the U.S. South and exists in spatial-temporal relation to systems of conquest and captivity. Combating this form of ongoing racial enclosure, Southern Black folks challenge the rigged notions of value through quotidian negotiations: coalition building, political advocacy, protests, and more. To conclude, we illustrate the need for iterative, emergent strategies that resist wastelanding by wrestling not only with the materiality of pollution but also with the sociological and relational underpinnings of disposability itself
Trash as a Means of Religious Communication: Warm Greetings to the General Heathen Public from the Toxic Temple
Full text linkPlastic, cement and nuclear waste will not only outlast us as individuals, but probably also as a species. What we pejoratively call ‘trash’ is that which will stand for us the longest. All our languages, cultures, and communications will be incomprehensible, and it is our waste that will represent us most virulently in the post-human life. In this sense, the speculative religion-turned-artistic project Toxic Temple regards our trash as a transcendent form of communication. Religion and spirituality were always means of speculating about the more-than-human and the beyond-human. At a time in which religion, at least in a European context, has lost its centrality in how we negotiate our desire for eternity, such eternity has instead become immanent in the form of trash, haunting us both in our present moment and in our possible futures. This essayistic, semi-scholastic contribution to On_Culture presents some of the central pillars of this speculative religion of trash, asking questions about wastefulness and eternity that exceed the boundaries between science, art, the humanities, and religion