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Sair da grande noite: Ensaio sobre a África descolonizada (Portuguese Edition)
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A África não é mais um espaço circunscrito cujo lugar pode ser definido e que esconderia um segredo ou um enigma, e que, além disso, pode ser demarcado. Mesmo que o continente ainda possa ser chamado de lugar, ele é, para muitos, um lugar de passagem ou de trânsito. É um lugar em vias de se desfazer num modelo nômade, transitório, errante e de asil
... See moreAchille Mbembe • Sair da grande noite: Ensaio sobre a África descolonizada (Portuguese Edition)
Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican philosophe
... See moreArturo Escobar • Welcome to Possibility Studies
Uma de suas teses é que a descolonização inaugurou o tempo da bifurcação na direção de futuros inumeráveis. Esses futuros eram, por definição, contingentes. As trajetórias seguidas pelas nações recém-libertas foram, em parte, consequência de lutas internas às sociedades em questão5. Essas lutas foram moldadas pelas formas sociais antigas e as estru
... See moreAchille Mbembe • Sair da grande noite: Ensaio sobre a África descolonizada (Portuguese Edition)
do not seek to explain or resolve the question of this exclusion in terms of assimilation, inclusion, or civil or human rights, but rather depict aesthetically the impossibility of such resolutions by representing the paradoxes of blackness within and after the legacies of slavery’s denial of Black humanity. I name this paradox the wake, and I use
... See moreChristina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within mo... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
the promise of postapartheid South Africa has not been realized. For its part, Nigeria was a British colony for a century before gaining its independence in 1960. The country’s subsequent history can only be described as deeply troubled; its initial decades were marked by civil war, secessionist challenges, and military rule. Its politics seem to h
... See moreRichard Haass • The World

boundaries of an antiblack world might, in other words, remain virtual (that is, immanent or imagined), yet one's paranoia is still a correct measure of