scholarly journals Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ends of Eurocentric Thought

Open Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Colby Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Abstract This essay addresses Jean-Luc Nancy’s “deconstruction of Christianity” and how what Christianity proclaims through enacting a deconstruction of itself brings an end to the western, hegemonic hold that Christian imperialism has perpetuated for centuries. Nancy, for his part, takes up the name of Christianity insofar as it is a religious phenomenon that signals a trajectory of thought in the West that must be discerned as providing an “exit from religion and of the expansion of the atheist world.” Since deconstructing the dominant narratives of the West means deconstructing the myth of a sovereign, autonomous deity whose reign, Nancy declares, has reached its end, Christianity utilizes its own kenotic narrative to point toward the end of religion and Eurocentrism at the same time.

A republican digital counterculture? Fourthwrite and the Blanket

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paddy Hoey
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The West ◽  
Underground Press ◽  
Sinn Fein ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Times ◽  
Dominant Narratives

In the early 2000s, the Internet, the blogosphere and new online medias were said to have recreated and expanded the countercultural political uprisings of the late 1960s. The radicalism of the underground press, equality, anti-war and anti-colonial movements never quite managed the translate their counter-hegemonic activism into a dynamic restructuring of politics in the West. However, academics and activists saw potential in the Internet to offer a space with which to counter the narratives of political elites, capitalism, globalisation and the domination of western corporations. In Ireland, a group of writers, led by former republican prisoners, developed an activist media space that was critical of Sinn Féin, dissidents and the dominant narratives of the Peace Process. The print magazine Fourthwrite and the online magazine The Blanket, harnessed old and new technology to provide a sustained countercultural critique of their times. That they sustained themselves for much of the 2000s without a specific political vehicle or purpose while producing some of the most compelling and inclusive writing about the times is testament to the opportunities that technology provides for committed modern activists.

Where there is life: Science fiction in Singapore

2019 ◽  
pp. 002198941988123
Author(s):  
Philip Smith
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The West ◽  
British Rule ◽  
City State ◽  
Technological Capital ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article seeks to situate certain works of Singaporean science fiction within their historical circumstances, demonstrating that Singaporean science fiction has historically served as social criticism, challenging both state narratives and foreign readings of the city state along the axis of East and West and “new” and “old”. The argument centres upon four texts: the anonymously-authored series “The Travels of Chang Ching Chong” (1989), Jahan Loh’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (2013), and two texts by Sonny Liew, namely Malinky Robot (2011) and The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015). These texts, I believe, share certain thematic connections: each is interested in the relationship between new and old and foreign and familiar, and each seeks, in different ways, to counter dominant narratives of the time. Accordingly, this article is divided into two imbricated sections. The first examines science fiction responses to popular and state narratives of the West as a source of technological capital both under British rule and after independence. “The Travels of Chang Ching Chong” and the “Ah Huat’s Giant Robot” sections of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, I demonstrate, trouble this narrative, offering stories in which Asia provides a source of technological advancement. In the second section I explore popular depictions of hypermodernity in Singapore and the enduring myth of the destruction of “traditional” Asian cultures in the wake of the post-independence industrial turn. Both Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth and Malinky Robot, I argue, complicate this narrative, presenting both hypermodernity and “old Singapore” as fantasy.

scholarly journals “New Wars”: Disappearance of the Future and/or Synchronization of Temporalities

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Decentralized System ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Dominant Narratives

The future-oriented temporal regime of modernity is today being replaced by presentism in the perception of time, not only in Russia or Eastern Europe, but throughout the world. However, this presentism does not always imply subordination of the past and future to the interests of the present. It may involve a conflict among temporalities, which will be settled by a violent synchronization of heterogeneous temporal outlooks or by recognizing radical time gaps. Most often, the politics of time is observable at the macro-level — as subordination of common commemoration practices to dominant narratives or regimes that exercise power over knowledge. In this interpretation, “politics from below” acts as a response to hegemony, but its failure is inevitable. The article points out the artificiality of that dichotomy by studying the writings about “new wars,” which are now becoming a decentralized system for the use of violence to reach extremely varied pragmatic goals. One of those goals is managing the future in a “risk society” or the endless prolongation of a present in which the boundary between ordinary and extraordinary violence is blurred. But at the same time, the “new wars” are also synchronizing “from below.” The politics of time is generated by the incompatibilities between past, present and future without ever reaching a stable symbolic hierarchy. Under these conditions it becomes quite difficult to separate “wartime” and “peacetime”. The article takes up the problematic nature of this demarcation in relation to cotemporary local conflicts in both Russia and the West.

Impossible Figures

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-576
Author(s):  
Drew Paul
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The West ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Impossible Figures ◽  
Gay Identities ◽  
Palestinians In Israel

Abstract This essay examines three documentary depictions of gay Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. These documentaries often problematically assume a fundamental incompatibility between gay identities and Arab and Palestinian cultures, thereby, first, placing their subjects in the position of choosing between living in Palestine/Israel and living as openly gay; and second, producing a narrative of impossibility, in which Palestinian and gay identities can only exist in irresolvable conflict. However, Paul also argues that critical reactions to these films, as well as some broader scholarly debates over sexual identities and practices in the Arab world, also reinforce this narrative of impossibility in a way that makes little room for the diverse lived experiences of gay Palestinians. In order to move beyond this narrative, Paul rereads these documentaries with an emphasis on the quotidian experiences of the films’ gay Palestinian subjects. Through attention to queerness as a spatial experience, he analyzes the ways in which these characters inhabit urban spaces in Israel and Palestine in ways that contest and disorient dominant narratives about these spaces. Paul concludes that a focus on such experiential moments reveals queer lives that are exuberant and subversive, and he shows the necessity of moving beyond narratives of impossibility in studies of sexuality in the Middle East.

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

The fight to save Uganda’s White Rhino

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Nile ◽  
White Rhino

In the West Nile District of Uganda lives a population of white rhino—those relies of a past age, cumbrous, gentle creatures despite their huge bulk—which estimates only 10 years ago, put at 500. But poachers live in the area, too, and official counts showed that white rhino were being reduced alarmingly. By 1959, they were believed to be diminished to 300.

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