...Cultural Inversions ...

...Spanish American Inversions The first American nation rose after 1776, fighting to reject British rule and preserve slavery. For decades, it struggled with internal divisions while searching for a profitable economy—until British industry created a soaring demand for cotton that U.S. southern...

... Taking up Bergson’s arguments in Matter and Memory , this chapter discusses the relationships between mind and brain, memory and perception, and spirit and matter. Jankélévitch argues that, for Bergson, the mind always proceeds in a circle, via the self, and combines two inverse currents...

... considering how conceptions of the archipelagic effectively subject normative structures to a process of inversion. planetary archipelagic imaginary mapping representation ecology ...

... of Indigenous objects. In a deliberate inversion of the colonial gaze, visitors were invited to examine the collector in his glass case. When the exhibition was later redesigned, the model was informally retained by museum staff but remained unrecorded in any database. With no official existence...

... own refusal of dialectics, Michel Foucault provides methodological tools that help to avoid the danger of premature dialectical reconciliation. Inversely, and from within the dialectical tradition, Fredric Jameson helps to loosen the bonds of dialectical oppositions and the singularity...

... the materiality of the black body with the textuality of the art object. Rather than merely signifying excess, dread, or decay, Black grotesquerie delineates an aesthetic practice of contortion, exaggeration, substitution, inversion, and corruption. As such, it is an expressive practice of formal disintegration...

... in the form of the apparatuses that allow or permit this “traversal,” a suspension that ruptures the apparently smooth cycle of exchange. The leap or inversion-reversal of capital past its developmental boundaries, and the leap of the commodity into the form of money within exchange, are two moments...