Reading In-Common
Configurations of the Incalculable and the Planetary Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12846209 |
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| Authors | Heike H ärting (corresponding author), Heike Härting (Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages | 277-296 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Caietele Echinox (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1582-960X |
| Publisher | Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.22 |
| OpenAlex | W3046769160 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism, techno-positivism, environmental and humanitarian disaster, the planet and life itself are in crisis and human “reason is on trial” (Mbembe). This post-global planetary emergency also signifies a crisis of the cultural and political imagination (Gosh) and a lack of critical paradigms through which to address this crisis creatively. This essay discusses a number of analytical terms—noise, the immaterial, rupture/event, the “environmental uncanny” (Gosh), “re-existence” (Mignolo)—to read the planetary in (im)material and decolonial terms as configurations of the incalculable
Neoliberalism (international relations · Positivism · Uncanny · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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