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Pasolini en Afrique, 1958–69:Quelques figures et intertextes français d’une poétique africaine (Rimbaud, Sékou Touré, Césaire, Senghor, Sartre)
No full textEntre l’épigramme « À la France » (1958), dans laquelle Pasolini se réfléchit à la fois dans le « nègre » Sékou Touré, président de la Guinée, et dans le « blond Rimbaud », et le Carnet de notes pour une Orestie africaine (1969), l’Afrique occupe une place centrale dans l’œuvre de Pasolini. Ce texte étudie quelques intertextes français qui nourrissent sa pensée, et identifie la manière dont la « survivance », d’abord pensée comme moteur de l’alternative féconde entre rationnel et irrationnel, prend peu à peu la forme d’une pensée de l’altérité
Introduction
No full textThis introduction to A World of Possibilities: The Undivine Legacy situates Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy (1992) as a transformative intervention in Dante Studies that reoriented the field toward narratological and historicized readings of the Commedia. Reflecting personally on her own intellectual formation under Barolini and Joan Ferrante, Kristina M. Olson redefines Barolini’s concept of ‘detheologizing’ not as a negation of theology but as a methodological recalibration that liberates Dante’s poem from inherited interpretive frameworks. The introduction traces the organization of the essays collected in this volume — across narrative, historical, theological, visual, and theoretical axes — demonstrating the broad reach of Barolini’s scholarship and its capacity to generate new critical perspectives
Reasoning between Possibility, Fictional Reality, and Actuality:A Case Study in Detheologizing the <i>Commedia</i>’s Conditionals
No full textThis essay takes its inspiration from the detheologized approach of The Undivine Comedy to consider the role of conditional constructions in the Commedia. Inferno 9 and 27 are offered as case studies to consider how Dante-poet employs the linguistic structure of the conditional as a mechanism to consider possibility and its relation to fictional reality and actuality, thus grounding the truth value of his text in a precise semantic framework
Dante’s Lucy in the Canon Law of Consent
No full textSt. Lucy, a fourth-century martyr, is key to the theological and legal treatment of consent in Christianity. The life of Lucy tells how she resisted gang rape by asserting the holy power of her consent. In the Middle Ages, Gratian and Aquinas use her story to explore violence, compulsion and free will. This essay analyzes Lucia of Dante’s Commedia in the context of canon law, placing Lucia in a genealogy of women — Beatrice, Francesca, Piccarda — whom Dante uses to raise issues of consent and will
Branching Out:Botanical Metaphors and Worlding Art History from the ‘Tropics’
No full textThis chapbook examines the aestheticization of plants in colonial discourses and charts visualizations of art histories that use the tree as a metaphor. In doing so, Miriam Oesterreich considers how ‘tropicalized’ tree forms have been reappropriated to portray a more ‘worlded’ art history. In the mid-twentieth century, prominent visual artists including Miguel Covarrubias, Alfred Barr, and Ad Reinhardt featured trees of art as canonizing illustrations of Western art history. Using Pablo León de la Barra’s poster Diagrama Tropical/Nova Cartografia Tropical (2010) as a starting point Branching Out discusses works by contemporary artists from Latin America and the Caribbean to look at the subversive potential in reimagining plant images and metaphors.Diagrama TropicalTropicality in the Arts and Visual CultureVisual Histories of EvolutionFamily Trees of ArtTropicalizing the Tree of Art: ‘Worlding’ PracticesA Subversive Re-thinking of Art History through TropicalityReference
Scaling, Mapping, Networking:The Politics of Zoom
Full text linkAs a starting point, Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman will provide an overview of their work on global forest monitoring platforms that use satellite technologies to detect forests. The workshop will invite short interventions on ecologies and scale to open up an interdisciplinary discussion on the potential and limits of understanding the politics of zoom. Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam) and Lynda Olman (University of Nevada) will take responsibility for leading the workshop and supplying reading material
Thinking Collectives/Collective Thinking:Introduction
No full textAsking ‘What kind of “we” can we be?’, this introduction outlines histories and methods of collective practice addressed in the book Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking. Departing from discussions around documenta fifteen, the editors situate Asian genealogies of collaborative practice in a global context. They discuss how artistic, curatorial, and activist modes of collaboration challenge individual authorship, enabling new structures of working, thinking, and world-making, as well as the difficulties this presents
Questionnaire on Collective Practices:December 2022–March 2023
No full textSix Asian collectives — Gudskul, Mai Ling, Nhà Sàn, Projek Rabak, Republic of the Other, and Tomorrow Girls Troop — reflect on why and how they work together. Through shared insights on care, conflict, authorship, hierarchy, and burnout, the questionnaire reveals collectivism as friendship, survival, and mutual learning that sustains creative ecosystems beyond institutional models
(Post)Colonial Haunting
Full text linkGhosts are first and foremost figurations of power. By giving intersubjective communication a form that can challenge anthropocentrism and Western conceptualizations of Nature, ghosts have the ability to generate alternative histories. This renegotiation of past events is particularly important in the context of colonialism. Yet, while this characteristic can certainly be instrumentalized for recuperative purposes, it can also be a narrative tool that supports forms of othering and exclusion. In fact, in literature, film, and culture ghosts can and have been mobilised to perpetuate unjust social structures. Particularly the haunted forest has often served as the matrix through which racial subordination has been put in the service of subject formation. A ghost is a reminder that history is not the past, or as William Faulkner famously put it: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’. But who is reconfiguring the past in the present? This discussion is led by the often-neglected question, who is hosting the ghost? Ghosts may have the ability to expose the narrativity of history, but they do not necessarily function as a corrective. Based on Sladja Blažan’s recent book Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonisation of the Invisible World, the discussion will focus on ways in which settler colonial imaginaries are reproduced and sustained through cultural and personal narratives that centre on spectral land. Particularly forests will be at the centre of our attention. Sladja Blažan is a writer and lecturer at Bard College Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in North American Literature and Culture from Humboldt University Berlin and her ‘habilitation’ in American Studies from University Würzburg. She has taught as a professor for Literature and Media Cultures at PhilippsUniversity Marburg, Bard College, New York University, Free University Berlin, Dutch Art Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University College Dublin. Research areas include speculative fiction, critical posthumanism, environmental humanities, and critical refugee studies. Her book Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World was published in 2025 with University of Virginia Press. Other publications include the edited collection Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman, the manuscript American Fictionary: Postsozialistische Migration in der U.S. Amerikanischen Literatur and numerous articles on the intersection of race, gender, and class issues. Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. Her writing explores how people navigate the complex states of health—especially subjects that discuss contagious outbreaks, medical experiments, reproductive assistance, or illness narratives. Her writing has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, Berliner Zeitung, Esquire, Frieze, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation, and other publications. A graduate of Princeton University’s Ph.D. program in History of Science, she held awards and fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Camargo Foundation, the Robert Silvers Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Edna Bonhomme is the co-editor (with Alice Spawls) of After Sex (2023), an anthology about reproductive justice, and the author of A History of the World in Six Plagues, which was published in 2025. Alison Sperling is assistant professor of Literature, Media, and Culture at Florida State University. She has previously held positions as a Junior Faculty Fellow at Technische Universität Dresden (2023), an International Postdoctoral Initiative Fellow (IPODI Fellow) at the Technische Universität Berlin (2020-2022), and a fellow at the ICI Berlin (2018-2020). She works on 20th and 21st century American literature and culture, ecocriticism/the Anthropocene, science fiction and the Weird, queer and feminist theory, Black studies, and contemporary art. She has published and has work forthcoming at the intersection of these fields in Cultural Politics, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature and the Environment, Symplokē, Paradoxa, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Studies in the Fantastic, Girlhood Studies, and in over a dozen edited collections and artist monographs. She is the editor of the journal issue ‘Climate Fictions’ (Paradoxa) and the co-editor of issues on ‘Anthropocene Sublimes’ (Ecozon@) and ‘Weird Geographies’ (Cultural Politics, forthcoming). She is currently serving as co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television (Liverpool University Press).00:00 Introduction by Alison Sperling05:05 Talk by Sladja Blažan31:55 Discussio