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  1. World literature for the wretched of the earth
    anticolonial aesthetics, postcolonial politics
    Published: 2021; © 2020
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York

    World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world... more

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    World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism. Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon's political writings and Erich Auerbach's philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty. Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present

     

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  2. Under Representation
    The Racial Regime of Aesthetics
    Author: Lloyd, David
    Published: [2018]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the... more

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    Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the absence of sustained thought about race in postcolonial studies, as well as the lack of sustained attention to aesthetics in critical race theory.Late Enlightenment discourse on aesthetic experience proposes a decisive account of the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood. The aesthetic forges a powerful "racial regime of representation" whose genealogy runs from enlightenment thinkers like Kant and Schiller to late modernist critics like Adorno and Benjamin. For aesthetic philosophy, representation is not just about depiction of diverse humans or inclusion in political or cultural institutions. It is an activity that undergirds the various spheres of human practice and theory, from the most fundamental acts of perception and reflection to the relation of the subject to the political, the economic, and the social.Representation regulates the distribution of racial identifications along a developmental trajectory: The racialized remain "under representation," on the threshold of humanity and not yet capable of freedom and civility as aesthetic thought defines those attributes. To ignore the aesthetic is thus to overlook its continuing force in the formation of the racial and political structures down to the present. Across five chapters, Under Representation investigates the aesthetic foundations of modern political subjectivity; race and the sublime; the logic of assimilation and the stereotype; the subaltern critique of representation; and the place of magic and the primitive in modernist concepts of art, aura and representation.Both a genealogy and an account of our present, Under Representation ultimately helps show how a political reading of aesthetics can help us build a racial politics adequate for the problems we face today, one that stakes claims more radical than multicultural demands for representation

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823282401
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    RVK Categories: CC 6900
    Subjects: Aesthetics; Frantz Fanon; Friedrich Schiller; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Immanuel Kant; Karl Marx; Philosophy of Race; Political Ideology; Representation; Theodor Adorno; Walter Benjamin; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; Aesthetics; Minorities; Rasse; Repräsentation <Philosophie>; Ästhetik
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  3. World literature for the wretched of the earth
    anticolonial aesthetics, postcolonial politics
    Published: 2021; © 2020
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York

    World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world... more

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    World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism. Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon's political writings and Erich Auerbach's philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty. Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present

     

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  4. From Imperial Persecution to Colonial Situation
    Alternatives to Persecution Theories in Revelation Studies
    Published: 2023

    For centuries the idea that John wrote the Book of Revelation to comfort Christians suffering Roman imperial persecution dominated the interpretation of the text's social setting. Due to the lack of archaeological and literary evidence, scholars have... more

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    For centuries the idea that John wrote the Book of Revelation to comfort Christians suffering Roman imperial persecution dominated the interpretation of the text's social setting. Due to the lack of archaeological and literary evidence, scholars have abandoned such a view and offered alternatives ranging from prophetic rivalries to Christian complacency to account for the Revelation's crisis rhetoric. However, these depoliticizing views assume that an absence of persecution amounts to a lack of systemic oppression and reflect the limitations and strengths of competing interpretation paradigms in biblical studies as well as the guild's Eurocentric ethos. Framing Revelation's rhetorical situation as a colonial situation, new approaches explore how John and his interlocutors turned idol food into a site for negotiating power, identity, and wealth.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research; London [u.a.] : Sage, 2002; 21(2023), 3, Seite 225-241; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: parting of ways; emancipatory-rhetorical; millenarian groups; Christian complacency; cosmic conflict; exodus rhetoric; relative deprivation; crisis; Frantz Fanon; postcolonialism; imperial persecution; colonial situation; idol food; Jewish diaspora
  5. Das weisse Denken
    Published: März 2022
    Publisher:  Edition Nautilus GmbH, Hamburg

    Was bedeutet es, weiß zu sein? Der frühere französische Fußballstar Lilian Thuram engagiert sich seit langem in der antirassistischen Bildungsarbeit. Anschaulich beschreibt er, wie die europäischen Gesellschaften die Kategorien Schwarz und weiß... more

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    Was bedeutet es, weiß zu sein? Der frühere französische Fußballstar Lilian Thuram engagiert sich seit langem in der antirassistischen Bildungsarbeit. Anschaulich beschreibt er, wie die europäischen Gesellschaften die Kategorien Schwarz und weiß erfunden haben, um Kolonialismus, Versklavung und Ausbeutung zu rechtfertigen. Bis heute zementiert das weiße Denken Herrschaftsverhältnisse und Ungleichheit in der ganzen Welt. In vielen Beispielen, auch aus seiner persönlichen Erfahrung, zeigt Thuram, wie diese Deutungsmuster funktionieren und wie sie allgemeingültig werden konnten.Thuram bezieht sich immer wieder auf postkoloniale Diskurse, auf Frantz Fanon und Aimé Césaire, James Baldwin und Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison und Achille Mbembe. Sein Buch ist ein zutiefst humanistischer Appell, eingeschliffene Denkstrukturen zu hinterfragen, um so das Fundament für neue Solidaritäten zu legen. Nur dann können wir einander endlich wieder als Menschen begegnen – und die Krisen der Gegenwart gemeinsam bewältigen Diese Verhaltensweisen haben mich im Laufe meiner Karriere verfolgt. Immer wieder hieß es scherzhaft: »Lilian steht auf Schwarze Frauen.« Man fragte mich sogar: »Magst du keine weißen Frauen? Bist du etwa Rassist?«, als müsste ich mich in irgendeiner Form schuldig fühlen. Diese Art von Spott enthüllte eine erstaunliche Geringschätzung Schwarzer Frauen. Denn woher kam die amüsierte Überraschung meiner Teamkollegen? Von der Tatsache, dass ich mit meinem Einkommen eine weiße Frau für mich hätte einnehmen können und das also auch hätte tun sollen. Wer Geld hat, hat ein großes Haus, ein dickes Auto, eine goldene Uhr, und heiratet eine weiße Frau! Es ist genau so, wie Fanon sagt, die weiße Frau wird zu einer Trophäe, sie ist Teil der Weißwaschung, sie ist die weiße Maske, die Schwarze Männer tragen, die es zu etwas gebracht haben

     

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  6. On Minor Universality
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek

    Our contribution seeks to render intelligible minor forms of a world-consciousness generated through social and cultural practices. Departing from Zineb Sedira’s installation “Dreams Have No Titles” for the French Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale... more

     

    Our contribution seeks to render intelligible minor forms of a world-consciousness generated through social and cultural practices. Departing from Zineb Sedira’s installation “Dreams Have No Titles” for the French Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale and concluding with our project’s research exhibition “The Pregnant Oyster: Doubts on Universalism” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, we discuss how narrative forms (beyond the book) produce experiences of a shared world. Shifting from an understanding of universality as effect of the universal in particular worlds, we return to the epistemological proposal of the microstoria (Ginzburg, Levi, Revel) to inverse this relation. In doing so, we suggest the concept of a minor univer- sality, by which we describe the genesis of a universal consciousness from concrete contexts. Our notion mobilises Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the minor through their engagement with Franz Kafka. We draw on it to address the Algerian anti-colonial struggle and the practice of sonic radio resistance described in Frantz Fanon’s “This is the Voice of Free Algeria”. Not captured through the binary of power/resis- tance, minority/majority, ours/yours, the minor produces instead a potentiality for change, for the not-yet, which foreshadows and intuits a new humanity. ; European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant

     

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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 700; 300; 440; 840; 100; 620
    Subjects: universalism; decolonisation; Mediterranean internationalism; Venice Biennale; exhibition-making; narration; microstoria; truth-procedure; Alain Badiou; Gilles Deleuze; Frantz Fanon; Giovanni Levi; Zineb Sedira
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