The text of Walter Mignolo’s Avenali lecture “Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality, and the Grammar of Decoloniality” can be read as a manifesto that announces an extremely imaginative and ambitious project.
What happens to our notion of Romanticism when Scotland is part of the picture? The question calls for a disciplinary conception of the humanities rather different from the one that prevails in the institutions of English literary history.
A group of artists in Turkey rent an apartment together in a diverse, intergenerational neighborhood; instead of using the space to paint or display, they invite their neighbors to dinner, create a playroom for children, and organize a neighborhood parade. They call their work Oda Projesi (The Room Project).
“It is well to have some water in your neighborhood,” suggests Thoreau in Walden. Punning on “well” (itself a kind of “walled-in” pond), he suggests that digging into apparently solid ground to discover water below offers a salutary reminder that “earth is not continent but insular”—that is, land masses even as large as continents do not so much contain as they are contained— surrounded—by bodies of water.