‘Island of the dead’: composting twenty-thousand saints on Bardsey Island

Marland, Pippa

doi:10.1080/14688417.2014.891446

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“…Modernist thought sees very little of this reality. Thus, Anthropocene scholars, drawn to working with islands as mediums of Storiation, seek to use feedback effects, marks, signs and registrations to provide greater access to this relational richness via speculative openings for thought (Marland, 2014;Morton, 2016a;Sharpe, 2016;King, 2018;Barad, 2019;Clark and Szerszynski, 2021;Perez, 2020a). Islands are understood as potential amplifying sites which hold differences and relations often in tension or contradiction: thus, the traces, hauntings and spectres disrupt easy separations between pasts, presents and futures.…”

Section: The Analytics Of Storiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds

Pugh¹,

Chandler

2021

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The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.

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Section: The Analytics Of Storiationmentioning

confidence: 99%