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Technology, Postcoloniality, and the Mediterranean
Tiziana Terranova and Iain Chambers
If we are to think with Mediterranean archives and the challenge their recursivity poses to the conceptualization of the present and possible futures, we cannot avoid registering the formation of the basin as a “colonial lake.” This conception foregrounds that since 1900, and until quite recently, the Mediterranean was directly ruled from London, Paris, and Rome. To consider what escapes this coloniality, and to insist on the incalculable slipping through the nets of a still hegemonic positivism—secured by a faith in the European human and social sciences—is to encounter that we, Occidentals, do not know what we thought we knew.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 15, 2021
Category
Technology
Subjects
Postcolonialism, Mediterranean, Water & The Sea