John E Drabinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 485843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John E Drabinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | John E |
| FAMILY NAME | Drabinski |
| SIGNATURE | DRABINSKI J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5048-6465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Atlantic Theory
Catastrophe, thinking
Creolization as Decolonial Theory
What does Édouard Glissant have to contribute to theorizing decolonization and a philosophy of difference? And how is this contribution tied to rethinking place (from Caribbean to Caribbeanness) and world (comprised of creolized culture and identity)? This essay takes up Glissant’s work in the context of questions of history and memory, with particular focus on how historical experience grounds philosophical work on place and world through articu…
Martinique Between Fanon and Naipaul
An argument for the proximity, if not absolute sameness, of Naipaul and Fanon on the status of the West Indies in the age of colonialism and independence struggle
Atlantic Theory and Theories
Notes on Transition
"Sites of Relation and "Tout-Monde
This essay tracks the movement in Édouard Glissant's work from thinking relationality as creolisation to Relation as such, to a globalised sense of cultural contact and transformation he calls tout-monde. This movement is informed by the critical meaning of the Caribbean as a historical and memorial experience, figured as the archipelago, and governed by chaotic mixture. Chaotic mixture, which is Glissant's preoccupation from his earliest work fo…
Anxieties of Influence and Origin in the Black Atlantic
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Reproduction and the Universal in Glissant's Later Work
Black Lives and the Gospel of Liberation
At first glance, there seems to be little in common between liberation theology and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Liberation theology, originating in the lives, works, and writings of a nu
Senghor's Anxiety of Influence
An examination of the question of influence in Senghor's work, with particular attention to the concept of assimilation - which I argue allows Senghor to responsibly adopt notions from French vitalist and life-philosophy traditions, despite their close ties to colonial and imperial histories
Césaire's Apocalyptic Word
The postcolonial moment is animated by a single, fecund question: What does it mean to begin? Whether it is a vision of cultural retrieval, syncretic memory work, or a first production of the unprecedented, this moment is oriented toward the new as a question of resistance, revolution, and, ultimately, an unshackled future. But, as with any theorizing of the future, this moment is also bound up with the question of memory work: What is the past? …
Baldwin's Three Africans
Vernaculars of Home
This essay examines James Baldwin's conception of what he calls "black English" and its link to historical and cultural identity. I link Baldwin's defense of black English to his reflections on the sorrow songs and sound, which draws on long-standing accounts of musicality as the foundation of the African-American tradition. In order to demonstrate this relation to the tradition, the essay puts Baldwin's remarks in relation to Frederick Douglass'…
Between Levinas and Heidegger
Fanon's Two Memories
This essay frames Fanon's work on revolutionary consciousness in The Wretched of the Earth with the problem of memory. In particular, it asks how Fanon's conception of the colonized is underwritten by a double-movement of remembering and forgetting. The colonized must remember grievance against the colonizer and gather the affect of rage into a will to act. At the same time, the colonized must forget memories of intra-African violence and the gri…
Poetics of the Mangrove
Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
An extended discussion of Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 217 pp
Shorelines
Édouard Glissant passed away on 4 February 2011 at the age of 82. A few words of memory. As a person and thinker, Glissant lived through, then reflected with meditative patience and profundity upon some of the most critical years in the black Atlantic: the aesthetics and politics of anti-colonial struggle, the civil rights movement in the United States, postcolonial cultural anxiety and explosion, the vicissitudes of an emerging cultural globalis…
What Is Trauma to the Future
Research Article| December 01 2010 What Is Trauma to the Future?: On Glissant's Poetics John E. Drabinski John E. Drabinski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.291 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John E. Drabinski; What Is Trauma to the Future?: On Glissant's Poetics. Qui Parle 1 December…
Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is nothing if not an enigma. His image has a life of its own, especially in its younger form: cigarette, sunglasses, smirk, rambling revolutionary slogans, and important books. It wasn’t just an image, we all know, for it reflected perfectly in iconic image the more substantial revolutionary recklessness with the camera we see from Breathless forward. Filmmaking is never the same after Godard. Images and their sequencing – Godard …
Separation, Difference, and Time in Godard's Ici et ailleurs
An exploration of the temporal structure of Jean-Luc Godard's film Ici et ailleurs, with particular attention to how Godard conceives an ethical relation to a transnational Other - the Palestinian
The possibility of an ethical politics
This essay examines the possibility of developing an ethical politicsout of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas’ own work does not accomplish this kind of politics. He opts instead for a politics of peace, which, as this essay argues, falls short of the demands of the ethical. Thus, this essay both provides an account of Levinas’ own politics and develops resources from within Levinas’ own work for thinking beyond that politics. An alternative,…
"Sites of Relation and "Tout-Monde
This essay tracks the movement in Édouard Glissant's work from thinking relationality as creolisation to Relation as such, to a globalised sense of cultural contact and transformation he calls tout-monde. This movement is informed by the critical meaning of the Caribbean as a historical and memorial experience, figured as the archipelago, and governed by chaotic mixture. Chaotic mixture, which is Glissant's preoccupation from his earliest work fo…
Césaire's Apocalyptic Word
The postcolonial moment is animated by a single, fecund question: What does it mean to begin? Whether it is a vision of cultural retrieval, syncretic memory work, or a first production of the unprecedented, this moment is oriented toward the new as a question of resistance, revolution, and, ultimately, an unshackled future. But, as with any theorizing of the future, this moment is also bound up with the question of memory work: What is the past? …
Fanon's Two Memories
This essay frames Fanon's work on revolutionary consciousness in The Wretched of the Earth with the problem of memory. In particular, it asks how Fanon's conception of the colonized is underwritten by a double-movement of remembering and forgetting. The colonized must remember grievance against the colonizer and gather the affect of rage into a will to act. At the same time, the colonized must forget memories of intra-African violence and the gri…
Shorelines
Édouard Glissant passed away on 4 February 2011 at the age of 82. A few words of memory. As a person and thinker, Glissant lived through, then reflected with meditative patience and profundity upon some of the most critical years in the black Atlantic: the aesthetics and politics of anti-colonial struggle, the civil rights movement in the United States, postcolonial cultural anxiety and explosion, the vicissitudes of an emerging cultural globalis…
Martinique Between Fanon and Naipaul
An argument for the proximity, if not absolute sameness, of Naipaul and Fanon on the status of the West Indies in the age of colonialism and independence struggle
Vernaculars of Home
This essay examines James Baldwin's conception of what he calls "black English" and its link to historical and cultural identity. I link Baldwin's defense of black English to his reflections on the sorrow songs and sound, which draws on long-standing accounts of musicality as the foundation of the African-American tradition. In order to demonstrate this relation to the tradition, the essay puts Baldwin's remarks in relation to Frederick Douglass'…
The possibility of an ethical politics
This essay examines the possibility of developing an ethical politicsout of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas’ own work does not accomplish this kind of politics. He opts instead for a politics of peace, which, as this essay argues, falls short of the demands of the ethical. Thus, this essay both provides an account of Levinas’ own politics and develops resources from within Levinas’ own work for thinking beyond that politics. An alternative,…
Separation, Difference, and Time in Godard's Ici et ailleurs
An exploration of the temporal structure of Jean-Luc Godard's film Ici et ailleurs, with particular attention to how Godard conceives an ethical relation to a transnational Other - the Palestinian
What Is Trauma to the Future
Research Article| December 01 2010 What Is Trauma to the Future?: On Glissant's Poetics John E. Drabinski John E. Drabinski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.291 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John E. Drabinski; What Is Trauma to the Future?: On Glissant's Poetics. Qui Parle 1 December…
Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is nothing if not an enigma. His image has a life of its own, especially in its younger form: cigarette, sunglasses, smirk, rambling revolutionary slogans, and important books. It wasn’t just an image, we all know, for it reflected perfectly in iconic image the more substantial revolutionary recklessness with the camera we see from Breathless forward. Filmmaking is never the same after Godard. Images and their sequencing – Godard …
Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
An extended discussion of Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 217 pp
Shorelines
Édouard Glissant passed away on 4 February 2011 at the age of 82. A few words of memory. As a person and thinker, Glissant lived through, then reflected with meditative patience and profundity upon some of the most critical years in the black Atlantic: the aesthetics and politics of anti-colonial struggle, the civil rights movement in the United States, postcolonial cultural anxiety and explosion, the vicissitudes of an emerging cultural globalis…
Poetics of the Mangrove
Fanon's Two Memories
This essay frames Fanon's work on revolutionary consciousness in The Wretched of the Earth with the problem of memory. In particular, it asks how Fanon's conception of the colonized is underwritten by a double-movement of remembering and forgetting. The colonized must remember grievance against the colonizer and gather the affect of rage into a will to act. At the same time, the colonized must forget memories of intra-African violence and the gri…
Between Levinas and Heidegger
Vernaculars of Home
This essay examines James Baldwin's conception of what he calls "black English" and its link to historical and cultural identity. I link Baldwin's defense of black English to his reflections on the sorrow songs and sound, which draws on long-standing accounts of musicality as the foundation of the African-American tradition. In order to demonstrate this relation to the tradition, the essay puts Baldwin's remarks in relation to Frederick Douglass'…
Senghor's Anxiety of Influence
An examination of the question of influence in Senghor's work, with particular attention to the concept of assimilation - which I argue allows Senghor to responsibly adopt notions from French vitalist and life-philosophy traditions, despite their close ties to colonial and imperial histories
Césaire's Apocalyptic Word
The postcolonial moment is animated by a single, fecund question: What does it mean to begin? Whether it is a vision of cultural retrieval, syncretic memory work, or a first production of the unprecedented, this moment is oriented toward the new as a question of resistance, revolution, and, ultimately, an unshackled future. But, as with any theorizing of the future, this moment is also bound up with the question of memory work: What is the past? …
Baldwin's Three Africans
Black Lives and the Gospel of Liberation
At first glance, there seems to be little in common between liberation theology and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Liberation theology, originating in the lives, works, and writings of a nu
Anxieties of Influence and Origin in the Black Atlantic
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Reproduction and the Universal in Glissant's Later Work
"Sites of Relation and "Tout-Monde
This essay tracks the movement in Édouard Glissant's work from thinking relationality as creolisation to Relation as such, to a globalised sense of cultural contact and transformation he calls tout-monde. This movement is informed by the critical meaning of the Caribbean as a historical and memorial experience, figured as the archipelago, and governed by chaotic mixture. Chaotic mixture, which is Glissant's preoccupation from his earliest work fo…
Notes on Transition
Martinique Between Fanon and Naipaul
An argument for the proximity, if not absolute sameness, of Naipaul and Fanon on the status of the West Indies in the age of colonialism and independence struggle
Atlantic Theory and Theories
Creolization as Decolonial Theory
What does Édouard Glissant have to contribute to theorizing decolonization and a philosophy of difference? And how is this contribution tied to rethinking place (from Caribbean to Caribbeanness) and world (comprised of creolized culture and identity)? This essay takes up Glissant’s work in the context of questions of history and memory, with particular focus on how historical experience grounds philosophical work on place and world through articu…
Atlantic Theory
Catastrophe, thinking
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (10 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works)