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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
... moves through Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment to contend that aesthetic experience as such requires this kind of ecstatic movement. The sociality assembled by aesthetic judgment is an ecstatic, de-structured collectivity. Zong! ’s sensus communis is not an a priori universality...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
... be planned or predicted. Situational art relies on shared visual stimuli that shape the collective urban imagination at a given time. A spectator of the public city is always already engaged in an exercise of political and philosophical deliberation regarding property rights, use of voice, aesthetic judgment...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 33–48.
Published: 01 July 2023
... about modernism. Put differently, he recognized that modernism was not an option he could evade (as the internalized dispositions of embodied sensibility and taste), even if it was also not an option he could straightforwardly, politically embrace (as a hegemonic mode of aesthetic judgment concerning...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is uninterested in the former.) G ese issues of judgment and forgiveness, which may be
aaxexe
at the heart of Kincaid’s melancholia, and the melancholia itself, product of a sense of
abandonment, haunt us with equal force at the end of Mr. Potter.
117676
Localizing the Aesthetic Search...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is uninterested in the former.) G ese issues of judgment and forgiveness, which may be
aaxexe
at the heart of Kincaid’s melancholia, and the melancholia itself, product of a sense of
abandonment, haunt us with equal force at the end of Mr. Potter.
117676
Localizing the Aesthetic Search...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is uninterested in the former.) G ese issues of judgment and forgiveness, which may be
aaxexe
at the heart of Kincaid’s melancholia, and the melancholia itself, product of a sense of
abandonment, haunt us with equal force at the end of Mr. Potter.
117676
Localizing the Aesthetic Search...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... for depositing the origins of racism, that judgment merely reflects how resistant the idea is to examination and how powerful and natural its specifications have become. Our confusions, however, are not unique. As an enduring principle of European social order, the effects of racialism were bound to appear...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... is serious business. Musicians, danc-
ers, street performers of all kinds, and artists like Duval-Carrié all work to transform this feast of inversions into a judgment
on the powers that be, especially the toadies of the “morally repugnant elites,” or MREs, as they were popularly vilified...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the role of the middle class, this would be antithetical to the aims
of Rastafari. The potential consequences for Rastafari, though, are mixed.
It is tempting to call out “Judgment!” on the diluted form of Rastafari that ital chic pre
sents. The sanitized repackaging of Rastafari themes...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 73–82.
Published: 01 October 2007
... establishment and
those mainstream artists who felt most targeted responded by questioning their legitimacy
and David Boxer’s professional judgment. This campaign was spearheaded by Barrington
Watson and Andrew Hope, who devoted a significant portion of his biweekly columns to
Boxer and the Intuitives...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
... judgment of Selassie, their Messiah, was imminent. Jamaican
Rastafari played into their racial otherness to raise bourgeois anxieties.
26 See Gleaner, 16 December 1933, 1; and M. G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford, Report on the Rastafari Movement in
Kingston, Jamaica (Mona: Institute...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... objects of study—alternative, understudied
books—the centrality of canon formation to that particular subfield is greatly reinforced. The
significance of Haiti Unbound gets to the heart of what we select to study—and the value
judgments associated with these choices—when tackling literature...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... it touches with a bitter humor. The strict politesse insulates the court
from irreverence while functioning as an implicit judgment against native “lawlessness.” In
twenty-five years of “independence” there is no discernable local identity inserted into St.
Lucia’s court proceedings or sensibilities...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
... or duped is to be “deeply unsocialist.” Like Hall, I am deeply suspicious of the elitist presumption that whenever large numbers of people consume a particular type of cultural artefact, that enjoyment is evidence of those people’s poor aesthetic and political judgement. As Hall puts it, “I don’t know...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 34–50.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Tohru Nakamura This essay argues that George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin presents an aesthetic quest into an alternative Caribbean subjecthood built on the capacity of feeling. Studying various dimensions of affectivity along with what Raymond Williams called “structures of feeling...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... inhabits a discursive field that
differs from that of the author of the book under discussion. This critic does not write as a
peer of the author but as an embodiment of the ideal reader who will consume the author’s
published words.
When one writes as a scholar passing judgment on the writings...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., resonating cuts of sound that persist beyond their
62 By apocalyptic tonality I am referring to Tosh’s investment in deliberately reworking biblical language and points of
reference to refashion and redeploy Rastafari-inflected ideas of prophetic political judgment.
63 Herbie Miller...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 154–169.
Published: 01 September 2004
....” Emancipation, in this context, is a quite specifi c historical event
of overarching national consequence. It is not a private matter.
Now, if you trust your own judgement, you can see for yourself that this prize-
winning sculpture says absolutely nothing about the epic grandeur of the battle of our...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to Brathwaite’s work to trace their mutual admiration and scuffles amid a comradeship that is stronger than time. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Kamau Brathwaite Caribbean aesthetics poet as shaman Caribbean poetry It was really nice to meet you. —Letter #1...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 16–37.
Published: 01 February 2008
... not by
virtue of what it is, but by virtue of what it is not—its terms of erasure. It is “not” home. But
neither is the Caribbean. The disingenuous “puzzlement” by which Lucy repeatedly expresses
her judgment of her employer Mariah and by extension the American values that Mariah rep-
resents (“How does...
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