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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Axe, Inc. 2011 Baby on the Blender: A Visual
History of Catastrophe in Haiti
Donald Cosentino
Plastic flower bouquets are indeed flowers in ruins—they evoke bouquets wrapped in
cellophane, purchased from the gas stations and convenience stores, that today adorn the
inner city shrines...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
... insurgency, I am troubled by the fact that Buck-Morss' anti-multiculturalist notion of universality is predicated on an epistemology of catastrophe and the violent stripping of the individual of cultural and social ties. If there is anything we can learn from the Western history of catastrophes, from...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the artist. This essay looks closely at one collaborative and two solo works by Mario Benjamin to explore the impact that commissioning projects has had on the development of a body of contemporary Haitian art represented as focusing on localistic catastrophe. In each case, the essay juxtaposes against...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 89–95.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Marvin Bartley © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 christianity’s catastrophic gift
Marvin Bartley
small axe 35 • July 2011 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-1334257 ©...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Cheryl Finley Since the early 1990s, the contemporary visual culture of slavery has been defined increasingly by installation, performance, and time-based media. This is particularly so for visual artists who chronicle Caribbean catastrophic history using the slave ship as a key iconic signifier...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 147–158.
Published: 01 July 2023
... is the Beginning —which is an attempt to unlearn the aesthetics of photography and the politics of the image in the midst of catastrophe. The entire series focuses on exploring intimacy in physical spaces during catastrophes, and in the case of La Soufrière, the photographer’s relationships with kin and friends...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Claire Tancons This article takes the 1928 Atlantic hurricane, remembered in Guadeloupe as le grand cyclone 28 , as the starting point for a selective genealogy of Guadeloupean women in times of catastrophe, following Melissa Harris-Perry's study of women and citizenship during Hurricane Katrina...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... compounded crises bound up with the afterlives of colonialism—coming to a head in the form of planetary climate catastrophe and its attendant sociopolitical degradations—have rightfully renewed demands for a decolonization of the contemporary world. The three orientations that guide the essay—the conflict...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Charlotte Rogers In an era of deepening social and ecological calamity, artists from Puerto Rico currently address perennial questions of catastrophe in ways that foreground the island archipelago’s multispecies relationships: the dynamic assemblages of human and more-than-human organisms...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Gabrielle A. Hezekiah Jamaican painter Roberta Stoddart has created a body of work in which personal and social histories intertwine to produce a contemplative response to what might be described as notions of enduring catastrophe. The work seeks to recognize a horizon of collective experience...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and catastrophic ways. The essay aims to show how the Haitian concept of “the unlivable” can help us theorize the dialectical relationship between a general atmosphere of crisis and the particular effects, or ordinary disasters, to which it routinely gives rise. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Raiford What is the relationship between photography and diaspora? How did this relationship stave off the catastrophe of black life? This essay uses the nineteenth-century photographic form of the stereograph as a hermeneutic. Through an examination of two iconic photographs of Pan-African...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... is contingent on specific individual and collective action, suggesting that the future could still perhaps be otherwise. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Rita Indiana time travel moral luck posthuman ethics enlightened catastrophism In Our Posthuman Future , Francis Fukuyama ponders...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 118–122.
Published: 01 March 2015
... by these projects, both in terms of theme as well as in terms of programmatic concerns. Thematically in some sense, the “Caribbean Visual Memory” and “Visual Life of Catastrophic History” projects were conceived within a conventional framework of history and memory. Here, however, we conceive a break...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Bad Bunny’s performance needs to be desedimented from the anti-Black ground it rests on, or the plantation complex as theorized by Zambrana. How does one refuse this ethnonationalism when it provides affective relief from the “veritable”/“ metaphysical catastrophe” that is coloniality? 22 30...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2011
... into the hands of the Nazis. (Benjamin
was in fact an associate of Hessel’s father, the writer Franz Hessel—in the late 1920s they
translated together into German Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu.) Benjamin’s
was a catastrophic—not a progressivist—vision of history. For him, the past, far from...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 223–226.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... In this very representation, Dionysus seems to surrender to fate, whatever the outcome. As the last drop of wine hits the ground, the tamed wild animal and she are looking outside the confinement of the frame, seeking an answer. Lying in the gap between catastrophe and recovery, these two personas have...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Don’t Let Go —as girls faced with living in the shadow of catastrophe at vastly different times: 1750 Saint Domingue and the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, respectively. Though Sharpe never states the question in explicit terms, her inquiry is very much concerned with how...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
... rupture.’ In describing the wait (weight) of disaster, she maps the environment of an economy of the catastrophe intensified in hurricane relief” (77; italics mine). “The wait of disaster,” she continues, “a temporal mode of ‘standstill’ where Puerto Rico seemed ‘trapped in a stalled present,’ set...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Catastrophe, not “manifest destiny,” is at the origin of this nation’s founding. The existential aesthetic of the blues teaches us that in each catastrophe, there is an opportunity, a possibility. It is the end of a world, not the end of the world. Ralph Ellison declares, “The blues is an impulse to keep...
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