ADRIFT AND EXPOSED

Not to search for the reason of Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small Boats (2007), but rather to reason with the work, to speak in its vicinity: what follows is the log of one possible route. The trauma of modern-day migration, here most obviously deepened and dramatised by the dangers of crossing vast and inhospitable spaces – the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea – is also the trauma of that split in the unified image of the world that seemingly reflects and respects only our concerns. Subsequent fragmentation disseminates the insistence of possible and impossible transits and translations in which the refused, the expelled and the marginalised dissect and multiple the horizon.  These are shards of history that are also parts of us. The narrative unwinds, confused by rhythms, tonalities and accents that befuddle the desire for a secure semantics and the reconfirmation of our world, of our possession of the account

Lessons from the south

In the light of events of 2011 in the Arab world – the so-called 'Arab spring – some critical considerations on the Occidental lexicon for explaining the processes that propose their conceptual limits and political agendas

Postcolonial thresholds: gateways and borders

Introduction to a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing coedited by Janet Wilson and Daria Tunc

Early surgery versus initial conservative treatment in patients with traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage [STITCH(Trauma)] : the first randomized trial

Acknowledgements This project was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme (project number 07/37/16). The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HTA programme, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The 'Unseen Order'

Through a reading of Gramsci's observations on religion and popular beliefs an examination of the paradoxes and hypocrisies of Occidental modernity

Introduction. Inflections of Technoculture: Biodigital Media, Postcolonial Theory and Feminism

This special issue of Anglistica aims at highlighting the blind spots between digital media properties and the questions posed by post-colonial subjects. Drawing on fields of inquiry as diverse as television and radio, cinema and cyberspace, new materialism and xenogenesis, the contributions help outline a composite theoretical framework trying to interrogate postcolonial ontologies and economies with regard to processes of inclusion/exclusion, the creation of borders, gendered and racial performance in a globalized world.\ud \ud The contributors are mostly former doctoral students from the PhD program in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at L'Orientale, and the Media and Communication department at Goldsmiths College, London, which makes this issue the result of an especially fruitful exchange between the two groups

Editorial/Introduzione

Il Mediterraneo è un’entità spettrale per la “Modernità” europea; è il suo rovescio irrazionale che porta con sé il disordine, la violazione dei confini, i fantasmi del colonialismo e un richiamo perturbante a un’antichità mitica e gloriosa. Questa complessa figurazione culturale, a lungo relegata dalla narrazione della Modernità a fantasie romantiche e orientaliste di opulenza e irrazionalità, oppure a esempi riprovevoli di corruzione e arretratezza, è recentemente divenuta il fulcro molto visibile e inevitabile dell’attenzione e dell’azione politica, con le strategie militari, umanitarie e culturali di securitizzazione messe in atto lungo i confini europei a fronte della crescente pressione delle migrazioni e dei conflitti disseminati nel Medio Oriente.Le tragedie che oggi si consumano nelle acque del Mediterraneo e il concomitante riassestamento delle politiche sociali e culturali in Europa richiedono una discussione urgente sugli usi e sui significati delle “crisi umanitarie”, sulle (connesse) politiche identitarie, limitate e restrittive, prodotte dal nazionalismo moderno, e sulla stessa politica identitaria europea. Leggere lo spazio mediterraneo come una molteplicità di “località composite”, riconoscendo allo stesso tempo che esso “esemplifica gli schemi globali di incontro condiviso, colonialismo e ambizione imperiale” (Chambers), significa occuparsi dei diversi livelli di riflessione politica e culturale necessari per aprire il campo all’instabilità delle visioni critiche. Arjun Appadurai, di cui parafrasiamo per questo numero della rivista il titolo del saggio Modernità in polvere, parla dell’insostenibilità delle narrazioni nazionali, sostituite da ciò che lo studioso chiama “sfere pubbliche diasporiche”. È questo uno dei possibili modi di pensare oggi il Mediterraneo: uno spazio dell’immaginario in cui le diaspore hanno creato e creano narrazioni multiple di appartenenza culturale e di identità politiche, radicate in una mappa di incontri condivisi e violenza coloniale

Introduction: Inflections of Technoculture'

Introduction to special issue of anglistica on technology and culture from a feminist and postcolonial perspective

Neapolitan nights: from Vesuvian blues to planetary vibes

A sonorial cartography of popular music in post-1945 Naples that considers the sounds in terms of culture and power of historicism, postcolonialism, heterotopias and counter narratives