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Philosophy’s Mother Envy:Has There Yet Been a Deconstruction of the Mother Tongue?
Get PDFThis essay approaches the problem of untying the mother tongue using Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s critique of onto-typology, along with the concept of the outre-mère (the ‘beyond-mother’), a limit-figure he and Jean-Luc Nancy devised in their critical assessments of psychoanalysis and its relationship to politics and the problem of mimesis. The essay argues that it will not be possible to deconstruct the figure of the mother tongue, or to untie ourselves from it, as long as we leave unquestioned both the theoretical dependence on figuration and our affective tie ( Gefühlsbindung) to theory
Falatório:Stella do Patrocínio´s Chatter
No full textStella do Patrocínio (1941-1992) was hospitalized in 1962 in the psychiatric hospital Colônia Juliano Moreira in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 21. In the asylum, where she remained until her death, she developed her unclassifiable falatório, a performative, poetic, violent, critical, and prophetic chatter, centering around bichos as one of the main and disruptive figures. This ‘chatter’ addressed social, racial, and gender issues and critically related to her own lived experience as a Black psychiatrized woman. In the midst of a racist, patriarchal, and extremely unequal society, in which psychiatry functioned as a powerful social regulation tool, Do Patrocínio’s metamorphosing into a bicho could be read as an act of invention and resistance. In the late 1980s and beginning of 1990s, her falatório was recorded, first by the artist Carla Guagliardi and later by Mônica Ribeiro de Souza, a trainee in psychology. These materials provided the basis for a book of poems published in 2001. After the staged reading of Stella do Patrocínio’s falatório with Yvonne Sembene there will be a presentation by Carla Guagliardi, followed by conversation with Delfina Cabrera, Marlon Miguel, and Elena Vogman Yvonne Sembene is a French-Senegalese dancer and artist, raised in Luxembourg and based in Berlin. She has taken part in several projects as a performer and developed her own collaborative work exploring multidisciplinary formats and social de/reconstruction through movement and sound. She has also established a dramaturgy practice focussing on identity and cultural accessibility. Carla Guagliardi is a Brazilian artist, active in the art circuit with exhibitions in institutions in Brazil and abroad, who has been living between Rio de Janeiro and Berlin since 1997. She studied at EAV Parque Lage and graduated in Art History and Architecture in Brazil at PUC-RJ. She was one of the founders of the Visorama group, promoting debates about contemporary art. From 1986 onwards, she was part of a group of artists who implemented a working group of free artistic expression at the psychiatric public hospital Colônia Juliano Moreira, where she met Bispo do Rosário and Stella do Patrocínio. This working group was related to the Brazilian anti-asylum movement (movimento antimanicomial)
Note the Ghosts:Among the More-than-Living in Iraq
Get PDFA series of creative non-fiction short stories based on ethnographic interviews and participant observation in Iraq from 2014–2022, Kali Rubaii’s reflection asks: what is a toxic affect? In these stories, war-torn ecologies are packed with living and non-living beings that emerge in the floor of a mosque, in a graveyard, from a pillow, a toilet, and construction sites in Iraq
Of Goats and Bombs:How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape
Get PDFGoats remain the most viable livestock in the warzone of South Lebanon because of their compatibility with wartime environments and ordnance. They can survive periods of scarcity during active war, occupations, or invasions by foraging for food and eating almost anything. Most crucially, goats are small and light and can graze in the borderland’s many minefields without setting off the hidden explosives designed to kill humans, who are not as light-footed. In this essay, Munira Khayyat explores how an enduring, explosive military technology is both domesticated and resisted by a homegrown, anti-mine survival assemblage
