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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 18d

How to puncture prevalent European understandings of the Mediterranean? The colonizing impulse inscribed in Western historiography can't be undone by adding previously repressed & unacknowledged histories.

THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION: new coordinates for another Mediterranean.

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Reposted by Iain Michael Chambers

punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 25d

Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives.

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!

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Iain Michael Chambers @imchambers.bsky.social · 27d

A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City hyperallergic.com/1041355/a-de...

A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City

“From Gaza to the World” at Recess in Brooklyn, the show's first North American stop, brings together works by 28 Palestinian artists.

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Iain Michael Chambers @imchambers.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is ridiculous. You mean, like many of us, that she is anti-Zionist.

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Iain Michael Chambers @imchambers.bsky.social · Sep 12

So ridiculous. You mean, like many of us, she is anti-Zionist.

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Iain Michael Chambers @imchambers.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom” hyperallergic.com/1040816/the-...

The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom”

The consensus of the German art world is aligned with the status quo of the State of Israel: Anything goes, except Palestine.

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Reposted by Iain Michael Chambers

punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives.

OUT TODAY #OpenAccess:

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