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Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration
engages with Ranjan Ghosh’s concept of trans(in)fusion and
critical theory. Trans(in)fusion reexamines critical thinking and
considers how thinking across traditions and systems of thought can
generate distinct interpretive experiences. The chapters not only
analyze Ghosh’s work but provide insight into the authors’
individual positions and critical approaches.
Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics, Precariousness focuses on
the idea of border and its various geopolitical, sociocultural, and
cognitive incarnations. In recent times, border has emerged as a
common trope in contemporary language with phenomena such as
bordering, borderless, building borders, breaking borders, crossing
borders, porous borders, and shifting borders. Whether concrete or
shadow, borders are omnipresent. The volume contains sixteen essays
on various aspects of thinking border as well as border-thinking in
literature, philosophy, historiography, strategic studies, films,
and TV series. Such a collection is symptomatic of the very
interdisciplinarity of border and the varied experiences of
bordering as manifested in different modes of expression. This
study of the multiplicity of experiences is intrinsic to our
understanding of border, so much so that borders can only be read
through an interdisciplinary approach. This interdisciplinarity is
immanent to the concept of border and imminent (to come) to the
phenomenon of bordering. Also, the volume quite explicitly deals
with themetaphorsof border(s): as border(s) may not necessarily be
always visible and tangible but also cognitive and metaphysical.
This volume intends to attract not only academics but all readers,
and that is precisely the reason why it has been designed in such a
way.This book, therefore, is not yet-another volume on critical
border studies and area studies. In doing border, the book enables
us to go beyond the boundaries of border studies and area studiesas
its authors believe that studies of border studies and area studies
have become as regimented as the borders of the nation-state.
By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought,
this collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying
semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of geopoetics that
cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading
some geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of earth in
Humboldt and Marx-Engels, topolitics in Tintin, reef-thinking,
geopoet(h)ics and Asiabodh, the volume tries to perceive how we
poetically exist with the earth. Isn't literature, taking a cue
from Hölderlin, a symptom of the way "man lives poetically on the
earth"? How is our body and psyche integral parts of the
earth-thought? How does literature deal with the concepts of space
and place? How literature enables us to comprehend the underlying
principle of geopoetics -- the principle of finding art in earth?
These are some of the critical questions which this volume seeks to
explore. Literature exemplifies a geographical consciousness - an
"intimate and subjective" experience of the earth. This book is an
attempt to conceive this eclectic infusion of art and earth, so
that we are able to ensure that the world of the art always remains
in touch with the earth of the world. Let us, through this book,
un-earth this deep-rooted spatiality and geographicality in
literature. Let us imitate earth through art, as this is the only
place where we can live.
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