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Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Bringing Ol Chiki to the digital world in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoCan a typeface turn the fate of an indigenous language around by making communication possible on digital platforms and driving digital activism? In 2014, a project was initiated with financial support from the Access to Knowledge programme at The Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore to look for answers to this question. The project’s goal w…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Defending Plurality. Four Reasons Why We Need to Rethink Academic Freedom in Europe in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAcademic freedom is under attack, both in authoritarian democracies, such as Hungary and Turkey, and in liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, the UK, France and Germany. For example, Gender Studies are being targeted by right-wing governments in Eastern Europe, and in France President Emmanuel Macron has attacked post-colonial…[Read more]
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Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Gyani Maiya (2019 documentary) in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNo community can express the pain of losing an elder, especially when she was the last fluent speaker of their language.
Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda died on January 25, 2020 in Kulmor village of Dang district in western Nepal, a year and half before this documentary was filmed. From leaving behind the life of a nomad to getting married to a…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Challenge of Migration. Is Liberalism the Problem? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Western states is far from resolved. This ongoing failure is typically attributed to the increased influence of right-wing populism and neo-fascism in Western migration politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political…[Read more]
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Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Karinding (2020 documentary) in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIlham Nurwansah’s passion of archiving and even reviving Sundanese culture did not stop at carving “Karinding”, a musical instrument made of bamboo. A Sundanese saying goes — “language is the identity of [a] nation” (Sundanese: asa téh cicirén bangsa”). The colonization era was complicated for Indonesia — a country with 700 languages — as it i…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Postdigital Politics: or, How To Be An Anti-Bourgeois Theorist in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn ‘Postdigital Politics’ I examine our contemporary postdigital political conjuncture. This conjuncture, I argue, springs from the crisis of representative democracy we are currently experiencing and involves a shift to more direct forms of democracy via postdigital communications. The latter is evident in the decentralised manner in which mov…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
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I am struck by the event of dissolution (in Spencer’s articulation). I wonder how one might think of narrative dissipating into narrativity. Not so much all stories being chapters of a single story as all stories as potential building blocks for other stories. The challenge for me is actually observing a narrative degenerate. The glue is quick…[Read more]
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Yes, I agree, François, one story does lead into another one…. And sometimes, what is the central story for us, with its point and everything, becomes just a building block for someone else’s story. Makes me think of what Rochester says in a poem, “Dead, we become the lumber of the world”.
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Very tickled to discover that Rochester’s translation of Seneca continues thus:
Dead, we become the lumber of the world,
And to that mass of matter shall be swept
Where things destroy’d with things unborn are kept.-
Yes, quite impressive! I also recommend the Johnny Depp film on Rochester, ‘The Libertine’.
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Christian Roots of Critique. How Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh Sheds New Light on the Concept of Freedom and the Genealogy of the Modern Critical Attitude in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoFinally published 34 years after his death, Foucault’s book Confessions of the Flesh sheds new light on the debate about freedom and power that shaped the reception of his works. Many contributors to this debate argue that Foucault’s theory of power did not allow for freedom in the ‘genealogical phase,’ but that he corrected himself and presented…[Read more]
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