Search Results for oceanic humanities

.... The article develops a hermeneutics of benthic becoming at intersections in literary studies, critical theory, cultural geography, and recent subsea turns in the oceanic (and more broadly environmental) humanities. Wrecky concretion, I argue, configures the thickening presences of empire's remains...

... in this scene? What logic of vulnerability and threat is reproduced by the tipping point itself? _________________ When corals bleach, they are not actually dead quite yet. Rather, they are starved and suffocating in the rising ocean temperatures brought about by human activity and pollution...

... theory and critique today? Here I argue, through the excavation of a nineteenth-century Sufi-in-exile's writing and career, that they have nothing left to offer but possibly a promise of thinking the human and life anew in relation to nonhumans and nonlife; however, for that promise even...

... novels by Joseph Conrad and V.S. Naipaul, to a video installation and essay by the South African artist William Kentridge, to the critical study of the Indian Ocean world. Traversing literature, art, critical theory, and personal story, the essay provides an imaginative and imagistic guide to new ways...

... . On the Postcolony . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2001 . Weheliye Alexander . Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . 7. Agamben, “We Refugees,” 117 . 6. See Butler...

... operations rely on daylight, the human eye, and binoculars to spot boats or signs of boats. The pilots believe that a well-trained, experienced crew can really “read the ocean surface” and even “spot much better than the military assets with cameras and all this stuff.” 34 There are a number of other...

... published in Taiwan in 1996, the novel is set in postapocalyptic underwater spheres. After the destruction of the ozone layer renders the earth's surface uninhabitable, the “ocean made a perfect protective membrane.” 77 The reproduction of human and vegetal life in the ocean requires the installation...

..., and its groundedness on the planet and in the more-than-human world. The earth is a garden we have been given to tend, a womb that contains. No one wants to expel us from it: “the vast expanse of space, the vast expanse of land, the vast expanse of ocean, the vast expanse of air, the vast expanse...

... violence” in aesthetic production, specifically within the Afro-Caribbean realm. 49 This aesthetic collusion produces a perpetual state of questioning the very ground through which “the ethnonational Human” emerges as a subject in Puerto Rico. It provides an intersubjective oceanic route (or root) 50...

... to be a nostalgic rehashing of an untimely Third Worldism that has lost its political relevance. Certainly, if we consider the dominant statist-nationalist, postcolonial forms that anticolonialism birthed, the foundational arguments made at Bandung in 1955—respect for human rights, the territorial integrity...

... dependency on a model of the universe that privileges the vertical or metaphysical vector, the urge to look upward, to locate a transcendent: in short, to rely on a force above nature, the supernatural. Call it God, Fate, or Mystery, the upward curve goes beyond what is knowable for humans or other sentient...

... Black African man or woman who was deported had a mother, and that an African woman had carried a baby whom she had helped to make a speaking and thinking person before she or he was snatched by slave traders and sent to a plantation in North or South America, the Caribbean, or the Indian Ocean...

... minorities suffer from the lack of rights. Much of the debate surrounding this phrase revolves around the foundational right that grants the possibility of having rights. Is it basic humanity that is meant to guarantee this right in Arendt's view, or is it, as Stephanie DeGooyer and her coauthors argue...

... choreography, where the river Quequén meets the Atlantic Ocean. I spend as much time as i can in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, where i am currently doing a PhD in anthropology. And although i am unable to be in Haiti physically, my heart is in my spiritual home of Port-au-Prince, at the sacred temple of Na-Ri-Véh...

... of the rescuers; Maurice Stierl describes a border zone in which activist practices fall within a wide humanitarian spectrum. 33 At the same time, the sea creates an opportunity for civil society to tighten human rights protections while thwarting state enforcement procedures. Rescuers can effectively...

... freedom, critical thought, and its important relation to democratic practices and ideals. It further suggests that academic freedom might be considered an international human right without making any claims about what the human is or can be. Finally, a case is made for the humanities in the field...

... modern and nonmodern semiotic, grammatological, and aesthetic traditions, Guha reconceived time as a function of the limits and possibilities of human language and argued that common lives and subaltern subjects could not be accessed without admitting to the heterogenous temporal constitution—“time-knots...

... of subjects, forms of conduct, and orders of social meaning and value. 6 Different from ideology—a distortion or mystification of reality—neoliberal rationality is productive, world-making: it economizes every sphere and human endeavor, and it replaces a model of society based on the justice-producing...

... that subsumes differences or in a pure, self-centering presence. It resides instead in the oscillation of differences and unstable multiplicities, in the ocean of electric currents in which all things are lost. There was a time when the word university magnetized enthusiasm and sounded epic...

... day we shall legislate for all mankind; the constitution drawn up during our holiday, shall place every human being on the same footing. Equal rights, equal liberties, equal enjoyments, equal toil, equal respect, equal share of production: this is the object of our holy day—of our sacred day,—of our...