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This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a
number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present.
The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard's work abandoned
political questions after the 1970s and was limited to merely
formal ones. The book includes a discussion of militant filmmaking
and Godard's little-known films from the Dziga Vertov Group period,
which were made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin. The
chapters present a thorough account of Godard's investigations on
the issue of aesthetic-political representation, including his
controversial juxtaposition of the Shoah and the Nakba. Emmelhainz
argues that the French director's oeuvre highlights contradictions
between aesthetics and politics in a quest for a dialectical image.
By positing all of Godard's work as experiments in dialectical
materialist filmmaking, from Le Petit soldat (1963) to Adieu au
langage (2014), the author brings attention to Godard's ongoing
inquiry on the role filmmakers can have in progressive political
engagement.
Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of
women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of
our current global political-environmental crisis and the
interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life
and human relationships. In a world, in which ""a woman's voice""
exists in bodies called in to occupy important positions in
corporations, government, cultural and academic institutions, to
work in factories, to join the army, but whose bodies are
systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the
double burden imposed on us to perform both productive and
reproductive labor, I ask what is the task of thought and form in
contemporary feminist situated knowledge? Toxic Loves, Impossible
Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the
current context of the production of redundant populations, the
omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation,
toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These
reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the
present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks,
Sarah Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Simpson, Chris
Kraus, AlaIde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day,
Veronica GonzAlez, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena
Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati
Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Paley, Raquel GutiErrez,
etc. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on
how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating
and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically
linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth.
Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of
women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of
our current global political-environmental crisis and the
interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life
and human relationships. In a world, in which ""a woman's voice""
exists in bodies called in to occupy important positions in
corporations, government, cultural and academic institutions, to
work in factories, to join the army, but whose bodies are
systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the
double burden imposed on us to perform both productive and
reproductive labor, I ask what is the task of thought and form in
contemporary feminist situated knowledge? Toxic Loves, Impossible
Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the
current context of the production of redundant populations, the
omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation,
toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These
reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the
present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks,
Sarah Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Simpson, Chris
Kraus, AlaIde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day,
Veronica GonzAlez, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena
Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati
Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Paley, Raquel GutiErrez,
etc. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on
how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating
and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically
linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth.
Translated from Spanish for the first time, and with a new
introduction to the English edition, The Sky Is Incomplete: Travel
Chronicles in Palestine is comprised of sixty short entries
detailing life in and reflections on the Occupied Territories of
Palestine in the twenty-first century. In this collection, Irmgard
Emmelhainz operates in the committed literature tradition of Walter
Benjamin and Andre Gide in Moscow in the 1920s, and Susan Sontag
and Juan Goytisolo in Sarajevo in the 1990s—writers and cultural
observers grappling with the political processes of others,
elsewhere. Â In order to render the issue of representation,
of speaking on behalf of the Palestinian ordeal in all its
complexity, The Sky Is Incomplete is composed as a collage,
gathering diary entries, letters, experimental passages, script,
poetry, art criticism, political analysis, and other genres to
convey an opaque view of the Palestine Question. Beyond
representation in the sense of giving testimony or speaking on
behalf of the Palestinians, however, the author’s parting point
is relational: The Sky Is Incomplete is about encounters—with
friends, mentors, interlocutors, lovers, children, activists, and
soldiers (Israeli and Palestinian).
Translated from Spanish for the first time, and with a new
introduction to the English edition, The Sky Is Incomplete: Travel
Chronicles in Palestine is comprised of sixty short entries
detailing life in and reflections on the Occupied Territories of
Palestine in the twenty-first century. In this collection, Irmgard
Emmelhainz operates in the committed literature tradition of Walter
Benjamin and Andre Gide in Moscow in the 1920s, and Susan Sontag
and Juan Goytisolo in Sarajevo in the 1990s—writers and cultural
observers grappling with the political processes of others,
elsewhere. Â In order to render the issue of representation,
of speaking on behalf of the Palestinian ordeal in all its
complexity, The Sky Is Incomplete is composed as a collage,
gathering diary entries, letters, experimental passages, script,
poetry, art criticism, political analysis, and other genres to
convey an opaque view of the Palestine Question. Beyond
representation in the sense of giving testimony or speaking on
behalf of the Palestinians, however, the author’s parting point
is relational: The Sky Is Incomplete is about encounters—with
friends, mentors, interlocutors, lovers, children, activists, and
soldiers (Israeli and Palestinian).
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