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This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present époque.
List of contents
I. IntroductionOverture: The Chimera of unsettlement
II. Variations on the time of unsettlement
1.
Furia and the zärdaly jam 2. Can we fix the disjointed time?
III. We will never be settled again
3.
A tower on the Simurgh Mountain 4. The unsettled worlding(s)
IV. Against immunity
5.
A cream-cheese choux 6. Biomedical coloniality and the Covid-19 conundrum
7.
A portrait of an unknown ladyV. Carmen Saeculare
8. The song of the age that has never come
9.
Hikikomori in the time of plague
About the author
Madina Tlostanova is a Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. She has written widely on existential, epistemic, gender and aesthetic aspects of coloniality and decoloniality, on the intersections of the post-socialist and postcolonial human conditions, fiction and arts over the past twenty years. Her recent books include
Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re- existence (2017),
What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (2018),
A New Political Imagination. Making the Case (2020, co-authored with Tony Fry).
Summary
This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present époque.
