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Umut Yıldırım's introduction combines the genres of literature review and commentary. It re-examines contemporary works on posthuman life to articulate ecological life-and-death politics within the context of colonial, imperial, and genocidal mass violence, and their entangled environmental legacies and actualities. A dissident repertoire of anthropological and artistic research is offered, which examines the ecological impact of war through the perspectives of human and more-than-human actors whose racialized and geographically regimented lives endure and counter ongoing environmental destruction.
Who's afraid of ideology?
(2023)
Artist Marwa Arsanios shares textual fragments from research she conducted for the first and second parts of a video trilogy titled "Who's Afraid of Ideology?" Meditating on the voiding effects of war, and the ecological and affective texture of communal resistance and eco-feminist praxis as they emerge in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon, and northern Syria, the text takes us to ecological milieux made of wild medicinal plants, fig trees, Kurdish guerrillas, and farmers in a women-only commune.
This essay identifies in the materialist strand of world literature theory, especially Pascale Casanova and the Warwick Research Collective, a reliance upon a priori structures (the worldsystem) and prioritisation of the literary registration of inequality. By contrast, I contend, world-literary critics who wish to maintain the dissident spirit of postcolonialism ought to demonstrate a shared equality. By reference to the philosophies of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay sets out the case for an alternative to world-systems critique: one that maintains literature's potential for creating new forms of resistance, dissent, and, crucially, equality.
Stellen wir uns vor, SozialwissenschaftlerInnen würden öfter ihre Komfortzone verlassen und sich in Feldexperimente begeben, anstatt vor Rechnern zu hocken und über ferne Wirklichkeiten zu rätseln und zu urteilen. Der G7-Gipfel im oberbayerischen Elmau bot Leuten, die sich mit (innerer) Sicherheit, Macht und Protest auseinandersetzen dazu eine hervorragende Möglichkeit. Die hier interviewte Politikwissenschaftlerin nahm an den Protesten teil. Da sie aufgrund eines eventuell drohenden Strafverfahrens um ihre eigene Sicherheit fürchtet – die ihres Rufs und ihrer zukünftigen Arbeitsverträge – möchte sie anonym bleiben...