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“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still
... See moreThe form of narrative addresses the human need to live in time, to express ‘historicality’, which refers to the urge to reach back into our past to change our future and see our life as a whole. Historicality, for Ricoeur, is the way we grasp our most basic potentialities as individuals and collectives by repetition or recollection that guides or s
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
What we have here is the circulation, or rather, the circulatory nature of historical ideas and practices over a hundred years, emerging from one part of the world, India, traversing continents and visited by various transformations while still retaining recognizable connections with its sources, and then returning to India enriched and made usable
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Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
The third category is methodological and conceptual. My goal as a scholar is to replace the still dominant ‘national-modernization’ model with the paradigm of ‘sustainable modernity’ for the humanistic disciplines.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
History as circulatory – both in the prefigured and configured versions – is a crucial missing term in the philosophical debate. Events simultaneously disperse across a variety of human and non-human borders, triggering and creating new events and processes. Historicality, narrative and power are, among other things, human modes of responding to th
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In order to develop histories that are adequate to this challenge, we have to learn to link our existing subjecthood – the I of history – in many different scales and temporalities, from natural and geological ones to those of local ecologies; from changing capitalist production cycles to rhythms of sustainable institutions, practices and modes of
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