L’Internationale, Rado Ištok (eds.): Decolonising Archives (2016)
Filed under book | Tags: · archive, art, colonialism, commons, politics, technology
This publication “aims to show how archives bear testimony to what was, even more so than collections. Archives present documents that allow one to understand what happened and in which order. Today Internet technology, combined with rapid moves made on the geopolitical chessboard, make archives a contested site of affirmation, recognition and denial. As such, it is of great importance to be aware of processes of colonialisation and decolonisation taking place as new technology can both be used to affirm existing hegemonic colonial relationships or break them open.”
Publisher L’Internationale Online, 2016
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License
111 pages
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Third Text, 6: Magiciens de la Terre (1989)
Filed under journal | Tags: · anthropology, art, art criticism, art history, colonialism, modernism, postcolonialism
A special issue of the journal consisting of a translation of the special issue of Les cahiers du musée national d’art moderne published to coincide with the exhibition Magiciens de la terre.
Foreword by Rasheed Araeen, introduction by Yves Michaud, interview with the exhibition curator Jean‐Hubert Martin by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, essays by Fumio Nanjo, John Mundine, Jyotindra Jain, Louis Perrois, Carlos Severi, Sally Price, James Clifford, Jean Fisher, Yves Michaud, Guy Brett
Publisher Third Text, Spring 1989
ISSN 0952-8822
96 pages
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Comment (0)Paget Henry: Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · africa, caribbean, colonialism, consciousness, epistemology, existentialism, historicism, history of philosophy, knowledge, marxism, ontology, philosophy, poeticism, poststructuralism
“Caliban’s Reason introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy.
In this ground-breaking work, Paget Henry traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature and marked by strong competition between its European and African orientations, Henry highlights its four main influences–traditional African philosophy, the Afro-Christian school, Poeticism and Historicism–as his organizing principle for discussion.
Offering a critical assessment of such writers as Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Edward Blyden, C.L.R. James and George Padmore, Caliban’s Reason renders a much-needed portrait of Afro-Caribbean philosophy and fills a significant gap in the field.”
Publisher Routledge, 2000
Africana Thought series
ISBN 0415926459, 9780415926454
xiii+304 pages
Reviews: H. Adlai Murdoch (SubStance, 2002), Claudette Anderson (Small Axe, 2002), Charles Mills (Phil Review, 2003), Clevis Headley (Int’l J of African Hist Studies, 2003), Leslie R. James (North Star, 2004).
Interview with author (Linda Martín Alcoff, 2003)
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