Iain Chambers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 524014 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Iain Chambers |
| NOMBRES | Iain |
| APELLIDO | Chambers |
| FIRMA | CHAMBERS I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Naples - L'Orientale |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1429-054X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Whose Time Is It? Book Presentation
On November 29th 2023, Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism and Artificial Chronological Intelligence by Stamatia Portanova, was presented online by Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, in conversation with the author. The event was introduced by Geoff Cox, one of the two editors, together with Jacob Lund of the series The Contemporary Condition, in which the book was published. After a short introduction of the main …
The Ghosts of Gaza
The following observations are modified translations of articles published in the Italian daily il Manifesto between October 2023 and September 2024, and many were subsequently posted on the Blog of Media Theory. Here, I have included the references that were absent from the newspaper articles. These short pieces seek to engage with the ongoing massacre of the inhabitants of Gaza by the Israeli state and consider its implications in uncovering qu…
It’s about time
The insistence on anachronism, where contemporary migrants forge the unauthorised routes of a present-day underground railroad, not only provides us with another means to map the present. It also reopens a past considered dead, gone, forgotten, and buried. Then, to think of migrants as travellers, is to underline the arbitrary imposition of ‘illegality’ and returns us to the violence that suffocates mobility despite its structural centrality to t…
Beneath the Sky, on the Sea, into the Blues
Mediterranean blues
The Mediterranean is often evoked as the metaphor for the various faces of modernity: from its presumed roots in classical Greece to the intertwining of Africa, Asia and Europe in its waters, emerging and insisting in today’s immigration ‘crisis’. Attempting to take methodological certainties and the universalizing history of Western modernity ‘offshore’, we propose to confront the sea not only in terms of a barrier or a bridge, but also as an on…
La question méditerranéenne
La question méditerranéenne : on fait ici clairement référence à l’essai inachevé d’Antonio Gramsci qui a été ensuite publié sous le titre La question méridionale. Dans ce texte, la géographie traçait la configuration du pouvoir. La subordination du midi au nord de l’Italie et le voisinage de celui-ci avec l’Europe moderne transalpine faisaient et font encore partie d’une cartographie où la Méditerranée et les autres suds du monde sont structurel…
Thinking with the diver
This paper considers the Mediterranean as an archive. Here the contemporary migration 'crisis', imbricated in the asymmetrical relations of power that sustain the superficial tenets of geopolitics, are intersected by deeper histories and longer rhythms. The latter propose a critical revaluation that bring the colonial-capitalist-racistcoordinates of modernity sharply into view
White Panic
Faced with institutions, languages and prospects that continue to run the world in tired reproductions of the past – a Britain that cannot give up its imperial imaginary, a Europe that refuses to break with its nationalist deadlock – rational argument and disciplinary logic are pushed to the edge. The provincial knives of racism, fear and hate cut easily into the supine and bloated body of unrepresentative democracies. The facade of politics is i…
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a ‘southern question’ that extends beyond local and national confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple m…
The Postcolonial Museum
Postcolonial Museum
Travelling Sounds
As both cultural history and metaphor, the theme of migrancy is deployed to reconsider the complexity of cultural powers exposed in the current decentering of the cultures and languages of the West. In repudiating the discontinous tempos and cultures of the city, commerce and capital, this critical tradition has also sought radical alternatives in the assumed continuities of folk cultures, 'authentic' habits and 'genuine' communities. If rock mus…
Global Historical Sociology
The ongoing collective effort to turn historical sociology into a globally oriented research programme implies a profound reconsideration of its conceptual and terminological premises, as well as a constant critical gaze over the colonial geopolitics of knowledge sociological thinking draws legitimation from. Three strategies are here discussed canonization, re-signification and re-conceptualization
Cultural studies under Mediterranean skies
This commentary arose from discussions and presentations held at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' 50 years on (CCCS50) conference. Held at the University of Binningham on 24-25 June, the conference examined the legacy that the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies fostered since its inception in 1964. Despite the closure of the centre in 2002, the maverick research tracks that were created then are still followed now. T…
Borders and beyond
This short article sets out to consider the limits of liberalism and its associated humanism in the light of reading Ash Amin's recent A Land of Strangers (2012). The terms of the debate are pushed beyond the idea of libealism as belonging to an exclusively European and autonomous formation. In a postcolonial take, liberalism is considered a conceptual field in which hegemonic processes and procedures of governmentality emerged in the historical …
Race, Modernity and the Challenge of Democracy
This article considers racism not as an unfortunate encrustation on the body of liberal democracy but rather as an essential component in the realisation and exercise of its biopolitics. Rendering historically explicit the racialising biopowers disseminated in the formation of Occidental modernity, the unsuspected political and cultural centrality of racism, not simply as a colonial phenomenon, but rather as a metropolitan institution central to …
Sounds from the South
Inspired by the Deleuzian imperative to think with, rather than of, cinema, this article considers Mediterranean musics less in terms of historical and cultural testimony and more as an ongoing composition of a mobile critical syntax. The southern and subaltern sounds that are heard and registered permit travel in the musical archive and there configure a critical cartography that continually exceeds and interrogates habitual understandings impos…
A strategy for living
Poder, Língua E a Poética Do Pós-Colonialismo
ESTE BREVE ENSAIO PROCURA IDENTIFICAR ALGUMAS DAS QUESTÕES CRÍTICAS QUE EMERGEM QUANDO UMA LÍNGUA, LITERATURA E CULTURA VIAJAM PARA OUTRO LUGAR E REGRESSAM, TRAZENDO OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS E CULTURAS. A NARRAÇÃO DA NAÇÃO, NOS ESPAÇOS COLONIAIS DA CASA E DO ESTRANGEIRO, É AQUI ATRAVESSADA, INTERROMPIDA, VIRADA DO AVESSO E, EM SEGUIDA, RESSITUADA NA "TRADUÇÃO", INFLUENCIADA POR CORPOS E VOZES NÃO AUTORIZADOS. É PRECISAMENTE A PROVA DESTES PROCESSOS CRIOU…
Theory, thresholds and beyond
This essay seeks to open up the question of the location of a critical disposition, the worldly conditions of analysis, and the vulnerability of languages, exposed to unacknowledged geographies, voices and places. The principal line of argument is that the accumulative force of Rey Chow's work forces us to consider how the rest of the world becomes a target for Euro-American theory. This propels us into the heart of darkness of a political, cultu…
Migrancy, Culture, Identity
In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migra…
Mediterranean Crossings
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the…
Migrating modernities in the Mediterranean
The following discussion on the Mediterranean has been critically motivated by immediate considerations of locality and authority. Who speaks for whom, both in defining a history, a space, a langua
Landscapes, Art, Parks and Cultural Change
It often seems that there is no longer a living landscape to consider but only an abstract territorial space, which occasionally acquires the status of a panorama, to analyse. Geography, as the ins
Beyond the Dream
Popular Culture
Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space
Mediterranean Crossings
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the…
Global Historical Sociology
The ongoing collective effort to turn historical sociology into a globally oriented research programme implies a profound reconsideration of its conceptual and terminological premises, as well as a constant critical gaze over the colonial geopolitics of knowledge sociological thinking draws legitimation from. Three strategies are here discussed canonization, re-signification and re-conceptualization
Some critical tracks
it is not a question of introducing out of nowhere a science of everyone's individual life, but of innovating and rendering critical an already existing practice. (Antonio Gramsci)Some years ago the concept of ambiguity was proposed as a central category in the analysis of everyday life. Henri Lefebvre, unorthodox French marxist and sociologist, suggested that precisely there, in the 'explosive chronicle' of daily life, it was both possible and n…
Borders and beyond
This short article sets out to consider the limits of liberalism and its associated humanism in the light of reading Ash Amin's recent A Land of Strangers (2012). The terms of the debate are pushed beyond the idea of libealism as belonging to an exclusively European and autonomous formation. In a postcolonial take, liberalism is considered a conceptual field in which hegemonic processes and procedures of governmentality emerged in the historical …
The Mediterranean
Cultural studies under Mediterranean skies
This commentary arose from discussions and presentations held at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' 50 years on (CCCS50) conference. Held at the University of Binningham on 24-25 June, the conference examined the legacy that the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies fostered since its inception in 1964. Despite the closure of the centre in 2002, the maverick research tracks that were created then are still followed now. T…
Theory, thresholds and beyond
This essay seeks to open up the question of the location of a critical disposition, the worldly conditions of analysis, and the vulnerability of languages, exposed to unacknowledged geographies, voices and places. The principal line of argument is that the accumulative force of Rey Chow's work forces us to consider how the rest of the world becomes a target for Euro-American theory. This propels us into the heart of darkness of a political, cultu…
Debate
Debate: Marxism and Culture Get access Iain Chambers, Iain Chambers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Clarke, John Clarke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Connell, Ian Connell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lidia Curti, Lidia Curti Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stuart Hall, St…
Migrating modernities in the Mediterranean
The following discussion on the Mediterranean has been critically motivated by immediate considerations of locality and authority. Who speaks for whom, both in defining a history, a space, a langua
History after humanism
Waiting on the End of the World
Debate
Debate: Marxism and Culture Get access Iain Chambers, Iain Chambers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Clarke, John Clarke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Connell, Ian Connell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lidia Curti, Lidia Curti Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stuart Hall, St…
Some critical tracks
it is not a question of introducing out of nowhere a science of everyone's individual life, but of innovating and rendering critical an already existing practice. (Antonio Gramsci)Some years ago the concept of ambiguity was proposed as a central category in the analysis of everyday life. Henri Lefebvre, unorthodox French marxist and sociologist, suggested that precisely there, in the 'explosive chronicle' of daily life, it was both possible and n…
Urban Rhythms
Waiting on the End of the World
Maps for the metropolis
Aron said, pointing to his glass: ‘You see, my dear fellow, if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy of it!’ Sartre turned pale with emotion at this. Here was just the thing he had been looking to achieve for years
Exposure, abeyance and dislocation
The Post-colonial question
History after humanism
Art after humanism
Culture after Humanism
"Culture after Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional Western modes of thought in the wake of postcolonial theory. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain chambers investigates moments of tension - interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology." "Chambers weaves together a critique of Western humanism, exploring issues of…
The Postcolonial Question
Popular Culture
Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space
Whose Modernity? Whose Home? The Desert Art of Kathleen Petyarre
TO CONSIDER THE ARTICULATION OF IDENTITIES, CAUGHT BETWEEN THE INSISTENCE of power and the fragmentary prose and potential of the world, is, most obviously, to respond to the performative instance, the "now," in which historical conditions and their accompanying cultural, political, and economic possibilities are brought together in temporal configurations on the body, through the tongue, across the psyche. This, as a minimum, suggests that there…
The Mediterranean
Beyond the Dream
Off the Map
Research Article| January 01 2005 Off the Map: A Mediterranean Journey Iain Chambers Iain Chambers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (4): 312–327. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247506 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Iain Chambers; Off the Map: A Mediterranean Journey. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2005; 42 (4): 312–327. doi: https://d…
Landscapes, Art, Parks and Cultural Change
It often seems that there is no longer a living landscape to consider but only an abstract territorial space, which occasionally acquires the status of a panorama, to analyse. Geography, as the ins
Migrancy, Culture, Identity
In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migra…
Mediterranean Crossings
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the…
Migrating modernities in the Mediterranean
The following discussion on the Mediterranean has been critically motivated by immediate considerations of locality and authority. Who speaks for whom, both in defining a history, a space, a langua
A strategy for living
Poder, Língua E a Poética Do Pós-Colonialismo
ESTE BREVE ENSAIO PROCURA IDENTIFICAR ALGUMAS DAS QUESTÕES CRÍTICAS QUE EMERGEM QUANDO UMA LÍNGUA, LITERATURA E CULTURA VIAJAM PARA OUTRO LUGAR E REGRESSAM, TRAZENDO OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS E CULTURAS. A NARRAÇÃO DA NAÇÃO, NOS ESPAÇOS COLONIAIS DA CASA E DO ESTRANGEIRO, É AQUI ATRAVESSADA, INTERROMPIDA, VIRADA DO AVESSO E, EM SEGUIDA, RESSITUADA NA "TRADUÇÃO", INFLUENCIADA POR CORPOS E VOZES NÃO AUTORIZADOS. É PRECISAMENTE A PROVA DESTES PROCESSOS CRIOU…
Theory, thresholds and beyond
This essay seeks to open up the question of the location of a critical disposition, the worldly conditions of analysis, and the vulnerability of languages, exposed to unacknowledged geographies, voices and places. The principal line of argument is that the accumulative force of Rey Chow's work forces us to consider how the rest of the world becomes a target for Euro-American theory. This propels us into the heart of darkness of a political, cultu…
Race, Modernity and the Challenge of Democracy
This article considers racism not as an unfortunate encrustation on the body of liberal democracy but rather as an essential component in the realisation and exercise of its biopolitics. Rendering historically explicit the racialising biopowers disseminated in the formation of Occidental modernity, the unsuspected political and cultural centrality of racism, not simply as a colonial phenomenon, but rather as a metropolitan institution central to …
Sounds from the South
Inspired by the Deleuzian imperative to think with, rather than of, cinema, this article considers Mediterranean musics less in terms of historical and cultural testimony and more as an ongoing composition of a mobile critical syntax. The southern and subaltern sounds that are heard and registered permit travel in the musical archive and there configure a critical cartography that continually exceeds and interrogates habitual understandings impos…
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