Michael Stern sets Nietzsche in conversation with Africana artists and
philosophers to explore the role of aesthetics in decolonial
worldmaking. Nietzsche, a theorist of power, morality, and aesthetics
supplies a description of a world making that also destroys. His
notion of the will to power explains how particular and local
interpretations spread and dominate. Stern situates Nietzsche's
thought alongside those of Africana artists and thinkers who,
confronted with the effects of the slave trade and colonial violence,
speak to new theoretical paradigms addressing erasure and displacement
and its relationship to form making. Thinking Nietzsche with Africana
Thought opens with Nietzsche's work on the human imagination and its
institutionalized restrictions, written around when the Congress of
Berlin divided Africa without the presence of Africans. The book ends
with the Ghanian sculptor El Anatsui's understanding of temporality,
form, and naming as he creates a slave memorial in a Danish setting.
Eschewing notions of hierarchal authority and keeping in mind how
epistemological racism has delimited our philosophical possibilities,
Michael Stern employs thought from each lineage to open the space for
what Frantz Fanon calls a human with a new sense for rhythm. What
emerges is a different sense for history, morality, culture, and
political life.
Les mer
Towards an Alluvial Poetics of Worlding
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9798765139653
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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