On Repair

Between cosmopolitics and decoloniality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7094487
AutoresMischa Twitchin (0000-0001-9810-7268, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen26
Número6
Páginas54-61
Fecha de publicación2021-08-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPerformance Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1352-8165 • E-ISSN: 1469-9990
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13528165.2021.2059162
OpenAlexW4285377672
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

Adopting the term from the work of French-Algerian artist, Kader Attia, this essay reflects on what ‘repair’ offers for a reading of decolonising practices of knowledge, addressing the cosmological besides the historical. In contrast to the ‘modern Western’ expectation of the work of repair, in which a break or wound is rendered invisible, Attia advocates the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of kintsugi, in which repair is even highlighted with gold dust – an illumination of fracture that foregrounds an object’s transformation through the visible simultaneity of both the damage and its repair. Repair, here, is a thought-image of and for an anti-essentialism, challenging a cultural politics of ‘identity’ in which claims of and for an ‘original’ status that has been lost could be (ideally) redeemed or restored. The following discussion explores the resonances of this conception within an iconology of decolonialism, where the conceptual potential of repair connects with a cultural politics of what one might call ‘demodernism’ – addressing a correspondence, rather than simply a break, between pre- and post- in the historical self-definition of the ‘modern

Aesthetics · Art · Cultural politics · Essentialism · Identity politics · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism