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This collection rethinks crisis in relation to critique through the
prism of various declared 'crises' in the Mediterranean: the
refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the
Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With
contributions from cultural, literary, film, and migration studies
and sociology, this book shifts attention from Europe to the
Mediterranean as a site not only of intersecting crises, but a
breeding ground for new cultures of critique, visions of futurity,
and radical imaginaries shaped through or against frameworks of
crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic or
anti-democratic agendas, can the concept crisis still do the work
of critique or partake in transformative languages by scholars,
artists, and activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies
to understand present realities? This collection explores
alternative mobilizations of crisis and forms of art, cinema,
literature, and cultural practices across the Mediterranean that
disengage from dominant crisis narratives. Chapter 1 is available
open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License via link.springer.com.
Un)timely Crises explores how 'crisis'-as a narrative, concept,
grammar, and experience-structures time and space. This
collectively written volume extends Bakhtin's 'chronotope' to
challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal
governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can
trigger memories and traumas of earlier events as well as foster
practices of resistance and alternative visions of the future.
Drawing from across disciplines and geographical contexts,
(Un)timely Crises reimagines the relation of 'crisis' with
'critique', proposing future trajectories for thinking and living
in and through crisis.
Un)timely Crises explores how 'crisis'-as a narrative, concept,
grammar, and experience-structures time and space. This
collectively written volume extends Bakhtin's 'chronotope' to
challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal
governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can
trigger memories and traumas of earlier events as well as foster
practices of resistance and alternative visions of the future.
Drawing from across disciplines and geographical contexts,
(Un)timely Crises reimagines the relation of 'crisis' with
'critique', proposing future trajectories for thinking and living
in and through crisis.
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid
oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy,
barbarism functions as the negative standard through which
"civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by
labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since
9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western
political and cultural rhetoric--a rhetoric that divides the world
into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent
trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of
barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent
potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept,
finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and
theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts,
this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful
theoretical tool.
New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee,
arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of
fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and
philosophical writer. Arguably the most decorated and critically
acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual
writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's
writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is
moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far
from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This
book sets out to examine these allegiances in ways not attempted
before, by bringing leadingfigures in the philosophy of literary
fiction and ethics together with leading Coetzee scholars. The book
is organized into three parts: the first part evaluates Coetzee
with respect to notions of truth and justification. At issue is how
the reader is to understand the ground on which Coetzee builds his
ethical commitments. The second part considers the problem of
language, in which ethics is rooted and on which it depends. The
chapters of the third partposition Coetzee's writing with respect
to notions of social and moral solidarity, where, in regard to
literature as such or experience as such, philosophy and literature
together exercise an unrivaled right to be heard. Contributors:
Elisa Aaltola, Derek Attridge, David Attwell, Maria Boletsi, Carrol
Clarkson, Simon During, Patrick Hayes, Alexander Honold, Anton
Leist, Tim Mehigan, Christian Moser, Robert B. Pippin, Robert
Stockhammer, Markus Winkler, Martin Woessner. Tim Mehigan is Deputy
Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at
the University of Queensland. Christian Moser is Professor of
Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.
This collection rethinks crisis in relation to critique through the
prism of various declared 'crises' in the Mediterranean: the
refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the
Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With
contributions from cultural, literary, film, and migration studies
and sociology, this book shifts attention from Europe to the
Mediterranean as a site not only of intersecting crises, but a
breeding ground for new cultures of critique, visions of futurity,
and radical imaginaries shaped through or against frameworks of
crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic or
anti-democratic agendas, can the concept crisis still do the work
of critique or partake in transformative languages by scholars,
artists, and activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies
to understand present realities? This collection explores
alternative mobilizations of crisis and forms of art, cinema,
literature, and cultural practices across the Mediterranean that
disengage from dominant crisis narratives. Chapter 1 is available
open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License via link.springer.com.
Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities is a
collection of original essays proposing a fresh examination of
epistemological questions relevant to scholars in any discipline of
the humanities. Is objective knowledge still a viable ideal? Can
art produce or express knowledge of any kind? Is the body a
promising medium for a knowledge less abstract or logocentric than
the kind Western culture has favoured so far? How are
epistemological regimes maintained with the use of established
linguistic tropes? Is knowledge to be resisted or employed as a
tool of resistance? Distinguished as well as young, emerging
scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, comparative
literature, musicology and art theory discuss concrete case studies
in which these questions arise. The essays share a commitment to
interdisciplinary approaches and the close analysis of cultural
objects, and refuse to take for granted the conventional
methodologies that often guide research projects in their
respective fields. The Inside Knowledge volume stages encounters
between different ways of knowing, which contribute to an
interdiciplinary understanding of the concept of knowledge and of
epistemological questions in the humanities.
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