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Laura Lo Presti
Manifesto. E l’Europa disumanizzò sé stessa
Il Manifesto nasce dall’esperienza di un convegno organizzato a Palermo, da Giulia de Spuches, dal titolo: E l’Europa disumanizzò sé stessa. È un appello alle geografie mediterranee militanti che vuole aprire uno spazio di dialogo per ripensare criticamente il Mediterraneo, con l’obiettivo di produrre un discorso contro-egemonico e critico uscendo così dalle gabbie retoriche imposte dagli stati-nazione e dell’UE sul tema delle migrazioni.
Haunted Cartographies: toward a postcolonial gyne-a-logy of mapmaking
Recalling Jardine’s definition of ‘gynesis’ (1985) which, etymologically, means ‘woman-process’ as the ‘putting into discourse of “woman”’ and strategically combining it with the Foucauldian sense of genealogy (1979), the aim of this paper is to re-vision and re-envision through the lens of feminist and postcolonial critical theory and visual arts the problematics inherent to what has been named the ‘cartographic reason’ (Farinelli, 2009). As Adrienne Rich once proposed for her writing, by revision I mean the theoretical act ‘of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction’ (1972: 18). The new critical direction I detrimentally encourage is …
MAPS OUT OF PLACE: DISPLACING CARTOGRAPHY IN THE REALM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
As Brian Harley wrote: “maps are too important to be left to cartographers alone” (2001: 239). Not for nothing maps have played a pivotal role as weapons of imperialism, as discursive formations disciplining the link between academic practice and political power and acting as social hieroglyphics in the words of Marx. The aim of this paper is plotting a course towards a divergent use of map-making as creative process and as a set of tactics to destabilize, challenge and re-imagine geographical mapping practices, moving beyond\behind their direct link with power, war and the male Western “episteme”. What is at stake in this provisional critical route is to understand what function and dysfun…