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Inflections of Technoculture: Biodigital Media, Postcolonial Theory and Feminism
Full text linkIntroduction to the special issue on Inflections of Technoculture, drawing on the perspective of cultural studies to articulate the intersection of biodigital media and postcolonial and feminist perspectives, raising issue of memory, race, sexuality, cultural identity and non-Western approaches to the digital
Another Map, another History, another Modernity
Full text linkIn this article, the author criticizes the consensual cultural configuration of present-day Italy by displacing concerns of historical and intellectual identity onto a wider Mediterranean map. Elaborating an interdisciplinary and intercultural position that looks to languages and histories that Italian academic life and institutional culture tends to ignore, or repress, the disparaged sides of modernity – the South, the Mediterranean, the Muslim world – become the sites of a diverse critical understanding. Drawing upon the metaphorical powers of the sea itself, this “Mediterranean” view of modern Italy, of the formation of its cultural and critical languages, proposes a more unsettled and fluid cartography that renders inherited questions and “solutions” vulnerable to an inquiry that a national culture is unable to authorize. In particular, the desire for cultural and critical continuity, sustained in a diffuse historicist syntax and policed by moribund disciplinary protocols, is challenged via a “postcolonial” elaboration of Italy as both a Mediterranean and modern formation. This leads to a proposed rupture with the mold of a fundamentally patrician and provincial understanding of native culture. In particular, the contemporary figure of the so-called illegal migrant announces the hidden colonial histories that planetary process return to disturb the surfaces of everyday life. It is the unwelcome turbulence of migration, as one of the central chapters of modernity itself, which now cuts into the historical, political, and cultural body of Italy, exposing it in a global frame that can only be registered in “worldly thinking” (Antonio Gramsci). Precisely at this point, it becomes imperative to draw up another map, narrate another history, and seek another modernity
Urban Rhythms. Pop Music and Popular Culture
No full textA cultural studies analysis of the historical and cultural formation of pop music in post-war Britai
Scratching the Lens: Media, Memory and Mimesis
No full textA critical investigation of the interactions between media, memory and understandings of reality
ADRIFT AND EXPOSED
Full text linkNot to search for the reason of Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small Boats (2007), but rather to reason with the work, to speak in its vicinity: what follows is the log of one possible route. The trauma of modern-day migration, here most obviously deepened and dramatised by the dangers of crossing vast and inhospitable spaces – the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea – is also the trauma of that split in the unified image of the world that seemingly reflects and respects only our concerns. Subsequent fragmentation disseminates the insistence of possible and impossible transits and translations in which the refused, the expelled and the marginalised dissect and multiple the horizon. These are shards of history that are also parts of us. The narrative unwinds, confused by rhythms, tonalities and accents that befuddle the desire for a secure semantics and the reconfirmation of our world, of our possession of the account
Sea and City
No full textSome thoughts on the ongoing cultural and historical mix of the contemporary Mediterranean through the languages of the sea and the cit
Borders and beyond: reading in the margins of Ash Amin's Land of Strangers (2012)
Full text linkConsiderations of the the accelerated hybridisation of Western society since the mid-twentieth century that has accentuated the continuing reformulation of such key concepts as identity, nation, citizenship, society, democracy and belonging in a review essay of Ash Amin's Land of Strangers (2012)
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities
No full textPostcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a ‘southern question’ that extends beyond local and national confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple modernity.
Drawing upon the interdisciplinary lines of thought developed within cultural and postcolonial studies, the work develops a concept of heritage beyond the concerns and obsessions of the Anglo-American world. It offers a counter-hegemony construction of the figure of the migrant and ‘other’ as a disruptive force in the construction of the idea of the West. It proposes a rethinking of the geo-political economies of knowledge and power, lived and viewed from elsewhere. This accessibility written book should be of interest to anyone interested in the construction of modernity and the future of postcolonial studies
Derive critiche e modernità non-autorizzate
Full text linkDerive critiche e modernità non-autorizzate
Una conversazione con Iain Chambers
di Serena Guarracin
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