Perpetual Returns: New World Slavery and the Matter of the Visual

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huey Copeland ◽  
Krista Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
New World ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Special Issue

In this introduction to the special issue New World Slavery and the Matter of the Visual, Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson not only frame the scholarly essays and artists' portfolios collected in the volume but also argue for a reorientation of both art history and black studies in light of the ongoing specular effects of racial bondage. In so doing, they underline the importance of the visual to the rewiring of slavery's imaginary by examining the ways in which black subjects have appropriated widely available representational means only to undo their formal contours, break apart their significatory logic, or reduce them to their very substance.

scholarly journals Homenagem: Remembering the Life and Work of Abdias Nascimento

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110115
Author(s):  
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry ◽  
Anani Dzidzienyo
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Black Politicians ◽  
Brown University ◽  
Black World ◽  
The Relationship

This essay provides a brief introduction to this special issue focused on the life and work of Black Brazilian scholar-activist Abdias Nascimento. The contributors include, Vera Lucia Benedito, Ollie Johnson, Zachary Morgan, Elisa Larkin Nascimento, and Cheryl Sterling who all participated in a 2015 conference at Africana Studies at Brown University. This group of scholars aptly illustrate that Nascimento had long contributed to the internationalization of Black Studies as a field in US academe and he was crucial in establishing Brazil as a central component of the Black World. The essays have much to teach us about Nascimento’s views on the relationship between art and politics, the role of military service in shaping his activism, the significance of black politicians in the reconceptualization of Brazilian democracy, and the importance of preserving archives and expanding our understanding of the Black radical tradition.

scholarly journals Leadership Special Issue: Do we need authentic leadership? Interrogating authenticity in a new world order

Leadership ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Iszatt-White ◽  
Brigid Carroll ◽  
Rita Gardiner ◽  
Steve Kempster
Keyword(s):  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals LatinX studies: Variations and velocities

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Claudia Milian
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art History ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Twenty First Century

At the core of this Cultural Dynamics special issue on “LatinX Studies: Variations and Velocities” are new conceptual approaches, epistemological workings, “keywords,” and modes of inquiry that enable us to theorize LatinX Studies and global LatinXness for the twenty-first century. Bringing together different research communities from art, art history, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, journalism, and literature, this exploratory undertaking offers a working language on present-day LatinX preoccupations to seize what is happening contemporaneously in light of the field’s “X” and to disseminate it in a usable format like this journal. The volume’s contributors—Jill Anderson, Gloria Elizabeth Chacón, Nicholas De Genova, María DeGuzmán, Rene Galvan, Hilda Lloréns and Maritza Stanchich, Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, and Fredo Rivera—put forward new formulations and models for Latino/a Studies in considering LatinX geographies beyond the Americas; indigenous migrations and cultural production; Miami’s oceanic borderlands; environmental planetary problems and environmental knowledges; LatinX medical subjects; and deported exiles. The breadth of foci herein invites further problematization and dialogue with implications and relevance to other fields.

scholarly journals Anthropophagy in São Paulo's Cold War

ARTMargins ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Art History ◽  
New World ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
World Picture ◽  
International Style ◽  
Local Difference ◽  
Cultural Cannibalism

The first biennial founded outside Venice opened in São Paulo Brazil in 1951, providing a fulcrum between “dependency” and “developmentalism” (to use economic terms). In terms of art history, it presents a useful anomaly in which an international style (“concrete abstraction,” a European import) was used simultaneously to eradicate local difference and to declare a cosmopolitan, up-to-date Brasilidade (Brazilianness). More crucially, I argue that the São Paulo Bienal was the precondition for the newly rigorous conceptualism that followed, as Brazilian artists in the late ′60s rejected “Concretismo” to craft a new world picture, radically transforming margin and center through the profoundly theoretical practice of antropofagia — cultural cannibalism.

scholarly journals Our Future Arrived: Diffusion of Human-Machine Communication and Transformation of the World for the Post-Pandemic Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Do Kyun David Kim ◽  
Gary Kreps ◽  
Rukhsana Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Open System ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
New World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Machine Communication ◽  
Living Objects ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Phase

The world is getting into a new phase in history. For the first time, humans are verbally communicating and developing meaningful relationships with non-living objects. AI is a wormhole to open a gateway to the new world, and the COVID-19 pandemic prepared the world to transform its system to be an open system that responds to, communicates with, and utilizes the remnants coming out of the wormhole of the new world. Now, we urgently need to create a holistic discourse on how we can recognize, develop, or shape the identities of communicable machines as people develop a partnership with them. Based on the emerging questions and discourses about human-machine communication, this special issue strives to investigate the present and future of advanced human-machine communication.

Debt, time, creation: An introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-402
Author(s):  
Nathalie Karagiannis
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Art History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Archaeology ◽  
The Social

This special issue explores the concept of debt and its ramifications in contemporary landscapes with the intention of altering the themes and terms of a debate imposed by economistic discourse. Briefly going through the crucial issues raised by the social practice of debt: time and creation – unveils that the languages of contemporary archaeology (Plantzos), sociology (Bissonnette), anthropology (Krige), art history (Hadjinicolaou), literary theory (Boletsi and Gourgouris), are ways of allowing for an emancipatory take on the issue of debt.

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