Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices and Possibilities [PDF]
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate ...
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Anita Lundberg
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Black Seed Dreaming: A Material Analysis of Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu”
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Indigenous Australians are outstanding for the way their ontologies and practices do not rely on a Western dichotomy that opposes material and spiritual realms.
Barbara Glowczewski +1 more
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André Chénier's ‘Dernières poésies’: Animism and the Terror [PDF]
, 2015 Starting from the premise that André Chénier's poetry is fundamentally pantheist in nature, this article identifies animism as one of its most important modes of expression. The pantheist belief structures and animist dynamic also inform his final poems,
McCallam, D.
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'Looking Back is Looking Forward': Towards a Theory of Tradition in Niyi Osundare's Poetry [PDF]
, 2013 As T.S. Eliot informs us, no one ever has his meaning alone, since the artist does not create ex nihilo. Thus, every artist looks to the past-or Tradition - for inspiration and, indeed, for the very material of creativity.
Anyokwu, Christopher
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Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman [PDF]
, 2016 This article puts forward the notion of animistic design as an uncertainty-driven strategy to reimagine human–machine interaction as a milieu of human and nonhuman. Animistic design is suggested as capable of fostering affects, sensibilities and thoughts
Marenko, Betti, van Allen, Philip
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Rev. Billy vs. the market:a sane man in a world of omnipotent fantasies [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a case study of anti-consumerism activist William 5 Talen, aka Reverend Billy, who founded the Church of Stop Shopping. Rev. Billy’s radical critique of the worship of markets and money complements his creation of a vibrant Earth ...
Freund, James
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Ciencia y creencia en la construcción del concepto de religión paleolítica [PDF]
, 2013 The study of prehistory established itself as a scientific discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century. The main issues discussed by this new science centered on the origins of humankind, society, technology, art and religion; this ...
Palacio-Pérez, Eduardo
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Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets [PDF]
, 2012 Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy. Since the Kyoto Protocol in
Abate R. S. +36 more
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Val Plumwood’s Philosophical Animism: Attentive Inter-actions in the Sentient World [PDF]
, 2013 Towards the end of her eventful and productive life, Val Plumwood was turning toward Indigenous people and cultures as a way of encountering the lived experience of ideas she was working with theoretically. At the same time, she was defining herself as a
Deborah Bird Rose
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Object-relics and their effects: for a neo-animist paradigm [PDF]
, 2009 Our relationship with objects is far less clear-cut than a rational materialism predicated upon a subject/object distinction would have us believe. On the contrary, it is a messy and unpredictable one, electrified by emotional investments, often anxiety ...
Marenko, Betti
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