The World as Abyss

Name: The World as Abyss
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The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene

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This book is about a distinctive 'abyssal' approach to the crisis of modernity. In this framing, influenced by contemporary critical Black studies, another understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded - a world violently forged through the projects of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making. Modern and colonial world-making violently forged the 'human' by dividing those with ontological security from those without, and by carving out the 'world' in a fixed grid of space and time, delineating a linear temporality of 'progress' and 'development'. The distinctiveness of abyssal thought is that it inverts the stakes of critique and brings indeterminacy into the heart of ontological assumptions of a world of entities, essences, and universal determination. This is an approach that does not focus upon tropes of rescue and salvation but upon the generative power of negation. In doing so, it highlights how Caribbean experiences and writings have been drawn upon to provide an important and distinct perspective for critical thought.

Author Biography:

Jonathan Pugh is Reader in Island Studies, Newcastle University, UK. He has more than 90 publications and is particularly noted for his engagements with the 'relational' and 'archipelagic' turns which have disrupted notions of the insular island. He is co-author (with David Chandler) of Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (University of Westminster Press). Jonathan leads the 'Anthropocene Islands' initiative (see https: //www.anthropoceneislands.online/). ORCiD: https: //orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-6379 David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, London, UK. He edits the journal Anthropocenes: Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. His previous books include Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (Westminster University Press, 2021); Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); and Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (Routledge, 2018). ORCiD: https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-7169

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May 9th, 2023

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122

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General (US: Trade)

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152x229x7

ISBN-13

9781915445308

Product ID

36810526

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