Passages
On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity
Sam Okoth Opondo,Michael J. Shapiro
- 248 pages
- English
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Passages
On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity
Sam Okoth Opondo,Michael J. Shapiro
About This Book
Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'. The aesthetic breaks emerging from the book's image-text montage draw attention to the ethics of encounter and passage that challenges colonial, domestic, and nation-statist sovereignty regimes of inattention.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of authors and artists
- Passage from the artists
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Blurred juxtapositions: passages, images, and affects
- 1 Genre, half-lives, and precarious respirationscapes
- 2 Ruminations on apocalyptic sublimes
- Image interlude A: Apocalypse
- Image interlude B: Black Girl Mask
- Image interlude C: Cry of the Passersby
- Coda: Aesthetic refrains, tremulous thought, and mushrooming worlds
- Index