The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Crucial Thought within the Anthropocene (2023), by Jonathan Pugh (Newcastle College, GB) and David Chandler (College of Westminster, GB), is on the market from College of Westminster Press in varied codecs.
Mónica Fernández Jiménez (Valladolid College, Spain) writes, “A much-needed mental effort within the non-reductionist and non-essentialising fashion of Pugh and Chandler’s earlier e-book, The World as Abyss provides Caribbean thought and tradition the place they deserve inside vital concept and materialist research.” Paul Harrison (Human Geography, Durham College, UK) describes it as a e-book “With the drive of a manifesto, the depth of a polemic, and the nuance of a treatise [that] units out to disavow the disavowal of colonial violence within the making of the modern world and thought. [. . .]” Learn extra on the College of Westminster Press.
Description: This e-book is a couple of distinctive ‘abyssal’ strategy to the disaster of modernity. On this framing, influenced by modern vital Black research, one other understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded – a world violently cast by way of the initiatives of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making. Trendy and colonial world-making violently cast the ‘human’ by dividing these with ontological safety from these with out, and by carving out the ‘world’ in a hard and fast grid of area and time, delineating a linear temporality of ‘progress’ and ‘improvement’. The distinctiveness of abyssal thought is that it inverts the stakes of critique and brings indeterminacy into the guts of ontological assumptions of a world of entities, essences, and common dedication. That is an strategy that doesn’t focus upon tropes of rescue and salvation however upon the generative energy of negation. In doing so, it highlights how Caribbean experiences and writings have been drawn upon to supply an vital and distinct perspective for vital thought. [. . .]
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