Introduction: Navigating Differential Futures, (Un)making Colonial Pasts

Burns, Lorna; Kaiser, Birgit Mara

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“…5). In Dialogues II, Deleuze's conception of the figure is less dualistic, differentiating between the nomad and the migrant in its tri-partition of the sedentary, nomadic, and migrant(Deleuze and Parnet 2007).3 That is, networks of unstructured offshoots and trajectories across smooth spaces.4 For scholarship that critically engages Deleuzian thought with postcolonial issues, see alsoBignall and Patton 2010;Burns and Kaiser 2012; for a critique of Deleuze and Guattari's notion of territoriality from a postcolonial feminist perspective, seeWuthnow 2002. 11 GOING NOWHERE: OCEANIC IM/MOBILITIES IN NORTH AMERICAN……”

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Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction

Ganser

2023

Maritime Literature and Culture

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In philosophy and theory, the terms flight and territorialization are tightly connected to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Through “lines of flight”—unpredictable routes defying spatial control—they conceptualize the breakup of a hegemonic spatial semantics through the mobility of the nomad. These lines make the paths of “deterritorialization,” contravening normative spatial structures (“striated” space) and producing “smooth space” that escapes structuration and control. Postcolonial critics such as Gayatri Spivak have held Deleuzian philosophy accountable for reaffirming a universal (white male) subject, but rarely debate lines of flight and deterritorialization, which appear somewhat romantic if applied to refugees subjected to involuntarily deterritorialization. In my essay, I ask how literature can perform the work of a conceptual corrective to such blind spots by reading Edwidge Danticat’s 1991 short story “Children of the Sea” and the novel Dogs at the Perimeter by the Chinese-Malaysian Canadian Madeleine Thien (2011). Danticat’s story focuses on the Haitian “boat people” that attempted to reach Florida shores in the 1980s and 1990s, while Thien examines the Cambodian genocide and its consequences for the children that came to Canada as refugees. Both texts, I argue, articulate what Achille Mbembe has called the necropolitics of genocide and demographic control and perform a grueling critique of the necropolitical structures that continue to produce transoceanic death.

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Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction

Ganser

2023

Maritime Literature and Culture

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Middle East and other futurisms: imaginary temporalities in contemporary art and visual culture

Parikka

2017

Culture, Theory and Critique

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This article focuses on recent contemporary art of Gulf Futurism and Arab Futurism with a specific geographical focus on the Near and Middle East. Still only occasionally addressed and analysed in contemporary academic discussions, these art discourses and practices can be understood as particular forms of counterfuturisms and cultural politics of imaginary times; they continue the earlier work of Afrofuturism in using an aesthetic repertoire to complicate normalised notions of time and technology but in an alternative geopolitical context. Some of the analysed works such as Larissa Sansour's films outline political questions about territories and architectures of control but these are also other contexts that address how experience of time is being infrastructured in material media culture. The article analyses these post-colonial artistic practices in dialogue with contemporary theoretical debate about cultural politics of time including the discourses about cancellation of future (Berardi) as well as the idea of counterfuturisms as a form of audiovisual practice.

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Reading the question of nationalism with Deleuzian ‘concept’

Saha

2019

Journal for Cultural Research

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The paper attempts to read together two otherwise unrelated questions -Deleuze's views on philosophy and the question of nationalism in Indiato explore what both can offer to each other without reducing the specificity of each. The paper, however, attempts to do this also keeping in mind two immediately topical concerns: the rising popularity of Deleuze studies in India and the political debates concerning nationalism. With such an attempt at reading one concept in an-other's context, the paper thus attempts to raise broader questions concerning the conceptualisation of nationalism, philosophy and politics. Aiming to explore such concerns from the question of 'other', the approach can be summed in the following entangled sequences: conceptualising nationalism in relation to minoritarian perspectives, politics in relation to philosophy and western ideas in relation to non-western contexts. The paper, however, engages in such an approach as a cautionary experimentation of reading entanglements, divergences and contingencies without searching for some corrective or messianic possibilities.

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Introduction: Navigating Differential Futures, (Un)making Colonial Pasts

Cited by 5 publications

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Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction

Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction

Middle East and other futurisms: imaginary temporalities in contemporary art and visual culture

Reading the question of nationalism with Deleuzian ‘concept’

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