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The Leisure of Transport
I have had -broadly speaking- four large and interconnected set of research interests thus far: Palestinian commemoration of political violence -massacres and battles, heroes and martyrs; the counterinsurgency work of US, Israel and colonial militaries; the politics and political economy … Continue reading
East India Company Routes
Excellent video animating East India Company 1798-1834… http://vimeo.com/43884291
Become a Sea Against Imperialism
Given the centrality of the sea to the work of colonisation and empire, I love this Turkish graffito my friend Pascal photographed in Istanbul: Update: Pascal’s friend says this Deniz is Deniz Gezmiz… Good pun, in that case!
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By the Sea
A truly beautiful book, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea is full of quiet insight about leaving home, about families, about illegal immigration, and about malice. It has a brilliant humour. Here is a bit about a madrasa, a chuoni on the … Continue reading
imaginary cities
Hav is like a nested doll. There is an original fictional travelogue published in 1987 embedded within the arc of a narrative that updates the story originally published in 1987 with “the events”; with the resulting diptych published in 2007. Then … Continue reading
“…for rivers and seas are not to be regarded as disjoining, but as uniting”
From Hegel through Schmitt to Foucault and onwards, there is a way of thinking about sea and land not as inert backdrop but as factors determining politics, history and the transformation of the world. Hegel’s The Philosophy of History is geographically deterministic … Continue reading
Posted in empire, imperialism & colonialism, militaries, ports, readings, seafaring, the sea, war
Tagged Carl Schmitt, Foucault, Hegel, Mahan
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The ship as the heterotopia par excellence
How wonderful is it that Foucault considers the ship the perfect heterotopia: Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think, after all, that the boat is a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that … Continue reading
Posted in empire, imperialism & colonialism, political economy, seafaring, ships, the sea
Tagged Foucault, heterotopia
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“war, commerce, and transit”
“Let us have the courage to be crude: let us sweep the spirit of subtlety down the sewer along with the flags and the great warriors.” Paul Nizan Paul Nizan’s star burned bright and brief. He was a classmate of Jean-Paul Sartre‘s … Continue reading
Posted in empire, imperialism & colonialism, literature, Middle East, ports, readings, ships, war
Tagged Aden, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Nizan
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Edward Said on Cavafy in Alexandria
In his Reflections on Exile, Edward Said has a lovely elegiac essay called Cairo and Alexandria, which is an ode to Cairo and a eulogy for Alexandria. I love the bits that follow (and especially sympathise with the fear of consulates … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, Cavafy, Edward Said
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The Gamming 