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The Science-Fictional Caribbean: Technological Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Beyond
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Kate Perillo This essay situates Nalo Hopkinson’s science fiction novel Midnight Robber within an understudied tradition of critical and creative thought that theorizes technological futurity in distinctly Caribbean terms. Although not typically read as “science fiction,” Édouard Glissant’s...
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Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
... thought to reside beyond the iron grip of the West and modern technologies, despite being a product of these forces, one significant way to dismantle the coloniality of being in Western modernity is to continually insist on just how fundamental blackness, black people, and black cultures...
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Caribbean Technological Thought and Climate Adaptation
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Sarah E. Vaughn This essay offers a critical perspective on the role technology plays in the Caribbean formation of climate adaptation. It locates this critical perspective in “the embodiment of technology,” a concept in the writings of the late political economist Norman Girvan that helped him...
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Within Earshot of Africa—Meditations on The Sound of Culture
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 159–171.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Tsitsi Ella Jaji This essay takes its cue from Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics . Chude-Sokei’s specific Caribbean matrix of technologically oriented poetics of the human is extended to African and African American texts, illustrating how blackness...
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Listening to the Sound of Culture
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the case that the power of an audible, creole technopoetics, as best embodied by dub reggae, can remake our very conception of the human. In addition to dub, the author brings minstrelsy, blues, jazz, and the like into his broader discussion of black engagements with sound technologies, arguing...
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Echoing the Echoes: Technopoetics in Dub
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Louis Chude-Sokei In the African diaspora, Jamaica is one of the primary spaces where the discourse of racial or cultural roots becomes sutured to technology and where the political legacies of race, slavery, and imperialism become enshrined in the public sphere of popular music alongside dreams...
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Against “Cultures of Hiatus”: History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... as well as in the age of digital technology. 45 Schwarz, “Introduction: Crossing the Seas,” 4. 46 JLR, speaking in 1973, quoted in Alleyne, Radicals Against Race , 117. 47 JLR, 1977 interview cited in Alleyne, Radicals Against Race , 44. 48 Schwarz, “Introduction: Crossing...
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Writing the Feminine: The Representation of Women in Contemporary Dominican Visual Art
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the Dominican art scene both thematically and technically. While Ramírez creates installations that include wood carving, xylography, and paint, Paiewonsky often combines textile design and sewing with other artistic media technologies, excelling at photography. Despite the diverse old and new materials...
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Birth of a Station: Broadcasting, Governance, and the Waning Colonial State
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
... this preliminary exploration of the politics of broadcasting. Concomitant with the reconfiguration of politics in the early twentieth century, the technologies that recorded and delivered information underwent a dramatic transformation, including, notably, the introduction of wireless. Receivers, transmitters...
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Virtual Islands: Mobilities, Connectivity, and the New Caribbean Spatialities
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... on the sociology of mobilities and space, this article suggests that changes in technologies of transportation and communciation, media discourses, and cultural performances of travel within recent regimes of neoliberal governance and regulation are contributing to new ways of developing, curating and staging...
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Fugitive Sounds
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... or ideologically opposed to the political registers of the music. The essay raises the question of ethnographically produced knowledge and its role in tourist or commercial enterprises. Finally, the essay poses the issue, as raised in other contexts by Alexander Weheliye, of the relationship of technology to sonic...
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Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
... their significance for current practices and possibilities in Caribbean studies. Using three contemporary digital projects as examples, the author elaborates on the potential affordances and limitations of digital platforms and technologies as (in Brathwaite’s terms) “agents of change,” while arguing the case...
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Dark Finance, Dark People
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... at the epicenter of their financial projects, which employed racism as a technology to banking interests, and racial capitalism grafted itself onto existing hierarchical systems. Hudson has shown the banks to be heirs to a long history of Caribbean commerce that tracks the shadowy line between the legal...
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Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of a new sound, the essay argues that sonic innovation was derived from Afro-Jamaican servicepeople who returned from World War II with military technological expertise, which they applied to sound engineering, and from entrepreneurial guilds of Jamaican merchants and shopkeepers of Chinese, Afro-Chinese...
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Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 40–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Transnational Migration, the State, and Development: Reflecting on the “Diaspora Option”
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 154–171.
Published: 01 July 2013
... are significant actors in this rescaling of state power, diaspora members, the private sector, and a host of other international development institutions are the primary architects of the technologies used to redefine citizenship and belonging. The technologies that constitute diasporic governmentality can...
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The (Anti)Social Life of a Digital Journal in the Era of Global Info-Capitalism
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 76–84.
Published: 01 July 2016
...: economics, technology, and globalism. The domination of academic publishing by a small number of big multinational corporations has created a situation in which scholarly knowledge production is largely in the hands of a market-driven capitalist culture. 2 The pursuit of profits...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 202–204.
Published: 01 July 2014
... the unwritten histories of radio and related sonic technologies in the Caribbean. L auren D erby is an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo...
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Dread Bodies: Doubles, Echoes, and the Skins of Sound
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
...: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). 51 Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Agamben's concept...
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Afro-philo-sonic Fictions: Black Sound Studies after the Millennium
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
... compelling answers to that challenge. Their monographs establish them as two of the leading figures in the interdisciplinary study of how black subjects transform, and are transformed by, sound, music, and, in particular, audio technology. Both bring great love to their knowledge of riddim and vibes, a love...
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