David Ventura
Biographic Data
| ID | 5798247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ventura |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ventura |
| SIGNATURE | VENTURA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3366-9195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Abyssal Figurations of Refusal in Édouard Glissant's Poetics
In this article I consider the kind of temporality that radical practices of refusal can be said to open in resistance to the enduring afterlives of slavery. To do so, I study what I call two abyssal figurations of refusal in Édouard Glissant's work, namely, the ‘silent walker’ in his 1990 Poetics of Relation and the ‘nameless woman’ in his 1981 novel The Overseer's Cabin. In both cases, I argue, Glissant envisions refusal as an ambivalent perfor…
Time and Refusal in Contemporary Black Radical Thought
This introduction offers an overview of some central strands through which contemporary Black radical thought has conceived the temporal dimension of practices of refusal. Tracing the connection between time and refusal that emerges across the works of Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman and other contemporary Black thinkers, we position refusal as a radical temporal practice that can unsettle the racialized grammars of time inaugur…
Refusing pathology
The final chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth includes several psychiatric case histories that speak to the indelible effects of the deathly atmospherics of colonialism on the psychology of the colonized. Though Fanon reveals that these case histories are drawn from his own clinical practice in Algeria, he almost entirely refuses to contextualize their inclusion in the text, and even warns that his presentation intentionally ‘avoi…
Time and the Middle Passage in Édouard Glissant's Thought
This paper elucidates Édouard Glissant's contribution to contemporary scholarship on the afterlives of slavery by examining his varied explorations of the enduring temporal significance of the Middle Passage. In theoretical writings such as Poétique de la Relation , Glissant extensively casts the Middle Passage as an abyss (gouffre) that radically disfigures all senses of time for those who–or whose ancestors–survived the trauma of forced transpo…
Sull’arroganza. Saggio di psicoanalisi [On Arrogance
History and histories
In the conclusion to Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon seemingly rejects the role that the past can play in the creation of decolonized futurities, famously writing: “I am not a prisoner of History (l’Histoire). I must not look for the meaning of my destiny in that direction.” On this basis, Fanon’s thought has often been read as opposed to the more prophetic vision of the past offered by Édouard Glissant, which emphasizes the contrapuntal po…
The Intensive Other
This paper develops a response to the ethical conception of the human Other formulated by Gilles Deleuze in his review of Michel Tournier’s 1967 novel Friday . The central contention here is that although Deleuze develops a compelling notion of intensive ethics in response to Tournier’s novel, that ethics also remains deeply problematic in refusing to ascribe a positive role to the human Other. My wager is that some of these problems can be broug…
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The Intensive Other
This paper develops a response to the ethical conception of the human Other formulated by Gilles Deleuze in his review of Michel Tournier’s 1967 novel Friday . The central contention here is that although Deleuze develops a compelling notion of intensive ethics in response to Tournier’s novel, that ethics also remains deeply problematic in refusing to ascribe a positive role to the human Other. My wager is that some of these problems can be broug…
History and histories
In the conclusion to Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon seemingly rejects the role that the past can play in the creation of decolonized futurities, famously writing: “I am not a prisoner of History (l’Histoire). I must not look for the meaning of my destiny in that direction.” On this basis, Fanon’s thought has often been read as opposed to the more prophetic vision of the past offered by Édouard Glissant, which emphasizes the contrapuntal po…
Time and the Middle Passage in Édouard Glissant's Thought
This paper elucidates Édouard Glissant's contribution to contemporary scholarship on the afterlives of slavery by examining his varied explorations of the enduring temporal significance of the Middle Passage. In theoretical writings such as Poétique de la Relation , Glissant extensively casts the Middle Passage as an abyss (gouffre) that radically disfigures all senses of time for those who–or whose ancestors–survived the trauma of forced transpo…
Sull’arroganza. Saggio di psicoanalisi [On Arrogance
Abyssal Figurations of Refusal in Édouard Glissant's Poetics
In this article I consider the kind of temporality that radical practices of refusal can be said to open in resistance to the enduring afterlives of slavery. To do so, I study what I call two abyssal figurations of refusal in Édouard Glissant's work, namely, the ‘silent walker’ in his 1990 Poetics of Relation and the ‘nameless woman’ in his 1981 novel The Overseer's Cabin. In both cases, I argue, Glissant envisions refusal as an ambivalent perfor…
Time and Refusal in Contemporary Black Radical Thought
This introduction offers an overview of some central strands through which contemporary Black radical thought has conceived the temporal dimension of practices of refusal. Tracing the connection between time and refusal that emerges across the works of Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman and other contemporary Black thinkers, we position refusal as a radical temporal practice that can unsettle the racialized grammars of time inaugur…
Refusing pathology
The final chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth includes several psychiatric case histories that speak to the indelible effects of the deathly atmospherics of colonialism on the psychology of the colonized. Though Fanon reveals that these case histories are drawn from his own clinical practice in Algeria, he almost entirely refuses to contextualize their inclusion in the text, and even warns that his presentation intentionally ‘avoi…
Philosophy (5 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · North African History and Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)