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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781478027256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (569 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Future/present
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: ART / American / General ; ART / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander ; USA ; Kunstsoziologie ; Rassismus ; Antirassismus ; Politische Kunst
    Abstract: Building on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world, FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of poetry, essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, and reflections on community practice.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction / Roberta Uno -- The Call / Jeff Chang -- vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett -- Part 1 / Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and Belonging -- Introduction / Daniela Alvarez -- Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez -- Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne and Nomy Lamm -- An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams -- Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux -- Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou -- Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells -- The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette -- Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the "Creative City" Gone Wrong-an Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012-2016 / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Building Temples for Tomorrow": Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery -- Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh -- Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima -- Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar -- Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen -- Red 40 / Jazmín Urrea -- More Nodes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguiente/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny -- Part 2 / Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas -- Introduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni -- Mano Poderosa / Rosalie López -- A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo -- Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters -- Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia Abéo Tibbs -- Fence / Belise Nishimwe -- A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman -- Harmattan Haze / Njideka Akunyili Crosby -- Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781478025160 , 9781478020271
    Language: English
    Pages: 554 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Alvarez, Daniela Future/present
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als FUTURE/PRESENT
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als FUTURE/PRESENT
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    Keywords: Racism and the arts History 21st century ; Arts Political aspects 21st century ; History ; Arts and society History 21st century ; Racial justice History 21st century ; Anti-racism History 21st century ; ART / American / General ; ART / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander ; United States Race relations 21st century ; History ; USA ; Kunstsoziologie ; Rassismus ; Antirassismus ; Politische Kunst
    Abstract: "FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today's most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities, and innovative strategists for equity. Selected contributors. adrienne maree brown, Dahlak Brathwaite, Jeff Chang, Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural presence : placekeeping and belonging -- Dismantling borders, building bridges : migration and diasporas -- Creating a world without prisons : culture and the carceral state -- Embodied cartographies : renegotiating relationships with land -- Living our legacy : ancestral knowledge as radical futurity -- Currents beyond : artists shifting paradigms of inequity.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781478025702 , 9781478020967
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 242 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Anima
    Series Statement: critical race studies otherwise
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Luciano, Dana How the earth feels
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Luciano, Dana How the earth feels
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    Keywords: c 1800 to c 1900 ; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) ; Geology in literature ; Geology Social aspects 19th century ; History ; Geology History 19th century ; American literature History 19th century ; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection ; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century ; Conservation of the environment ; General & world history ; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte ; SOC069000 ; Umweltschutz
    Abstract: "By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased knowledge of planetary life was used to racialize Native peoples as fossils and curiosities. Further, the geological fantasy served to cement the notion that the Earth had been preparing for the presence of humans, and that humans were in fact the ultimate expression of the Earth's teleological development in a both scientific and spiritual sense. Counterposing a range of texts-from early European and US geological texts to Indigenous accounts of earthquakes to African American men's anti-slavery writing featuring geological tropes-Luciano reveals the workings of the geological fantasy as it operated across the racial and biopolitical discourses of the nineteenth-century United States. Luciano offers a rich and historically nuanced account of how imagined relations with the non-human world have long served as a means of avoiding engagement with the dynamics of racial and colonial power"
    Abstract: Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world
    Description / Table of Contents: The "Fashionable Science" -- 'The Infinite Go-Before of the Present': Geological Time, Worldmaking, and Race in the Nineteenth Century -- Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes -- Romancing the Trace: Ichnology, Affect, Race -- Matters of Spirit: Vibrant Materiality and White Femme Geophilia -- The Natural History of Freedom: Blackness, Geomorphology, Worldmaking -- Ishmael's Anthropocenes and Others: Geological Fantasy in the Twentiethfirst Century.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781478093718
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (568 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Future/present
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    Keywords: Anti-racism History 21st century ; Arts and society History 21st century ; Arts Political aspects 21st century ; History ; ART / American / General ; USA ; Kunstsoziologie ; Rassismus ; Antirassismus ; Politische Kunst
    Abstract: FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today's most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities, and innovative strategists for equity.Selected contributors. Dahlak Brathwaite, adrienne maree brown, Jeff Chang, Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu
    Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , INTRODUCTION , The Call , vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) , PART 1 / CULTURAL PRESENCE: PLACEKEEPING AND BELONGING , Introduction , Aqui Estoy , Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance , An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded , Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music , Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans , Collectively Directing the Current , The New Eagle Creek Saloon , Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the "Creative City" Gone Wrong-an Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012 - 2016 , "Building Temples for Tomorrow": Cultural Workers as Construction Crews , Invasive Species , Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo , Local Fruit Still Life , Stage One: Establishing Community , Red 40 , More Nodes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguiente/the turns of the Next , PART 2 / DISMANTLING BORDERS, BUILDING BRIDGES: MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS , Introduction , Mano Poderosa , A Cosmos of Dis/Joints , Cross-Border Citizens , Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing , Vessels: A Conversation , Fence , A Touch of Otherness , Harmattan Haze , Who Is the #EmergingUS? , Justice and Equity: We're Coming for It All , building bricks for communal healing , We Never Needed Documents to Thrive , prop·er , Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives , Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings , PART 3 / CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT PRISONS: CULTURE AND THE CARCERAL STATE , Introduction , To Create in Prison , A Measure of Joy , There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice , HOGAR , I Remember , Coming Home , Singing Our Way to Abolition , Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder , Locked in a Dark Calm , As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe , Jumpsuit Project , The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us , The Nail That Sticks Out , Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives , Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt) , The Evanesced Series (2016 - ) , PART 4 / EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES: RENEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LAND , Introduction , Kiksuya , America Doesn't Exist , Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder , Sopa de Ostión , Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us , ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings , Essential Economy , Earth Mama II , We Are Part of This Land , Mauka House , Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field , Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum , Secrets That the Wind Carries Away , Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home , Ballers , PART 5 / LIVING OUR LEGACY: ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE AS RADICAL FUTURITY , Introduction , These Roots Run Deep , The Future Is Ancient , Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiyah Ayubbi , 1619 , Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village-a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson , Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience , Español , Apsáalooke Feminist #4 , Mother's Words and Grandmother's Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation) , The AIM Song , Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity , For Paradise , What Is the New Basket That We're Going to Weave? , I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: 'Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity , The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA! , PART 6 / CURRENTS BEYOND: ARTISTS SHIFTING PARADIGMS OF INEQUITY , Introduction , Bang Bang , The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice , We Begin by Listening , EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists , Listening through Dance , Scenes & Takes , Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid , What Would Upski Think? , all organizing is science fiction , Rebirth Garments , A Call to Action , Huliau , SOVEREIGN , Flexing Hope Is a Practice , Azadi , AFTERWORD , emergence (after adrienne maree brown) , Acknowledgments , In English
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781478011446 , 9781478010418
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 137 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Freeburg, Christopher Counterlife
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Freeburg, Christopher, 1972 - Counterlife
    DDC: 306.3/620973
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    Keywords: Slavery History ; Slavery Sociological aspects ; Slavery in literature ; Schwarze ; Sklaverei ; Psychische Verarbeitung ; Kreativität
    Abstract: Introduction: Slavery's Hereafter -- Sambo's Cloak -- Kaleidoscope Views -- Sounds of Blackness -- The Last Black Hero -- Coda: Chasing Ghosts
    Abstract: "Counterlife demonstrates that scholarship on slavery in the Americas has its imaginative roots in the emergence of sociology/social theory in the 1950s as well as aesthetic movements (e.g., naturalism and modernism) that flourished in the early twentieth century. Debates between social scientists, artists, and politicians about mass culture, modern urban space, and socialization amplify slavery studies' preoccupation with political insurgency and resistance. This book analyzes the kinds of descriptions of social space, power, and personality type that became pivotal in the early sociology and psychology of slavery studies"--
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781478009009
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 2000-2019 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies ; African American arts ; African Americans in popular culture ; Politics and culture ; Popular culture ; Racism in popular culture ; Massenkultur ; Schwarze ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Schwarze ; Massenkultur ; Geschichte 2000-2019
    Abstract: The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight. Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow, politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship.Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese Thompson
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781478007326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beck, John, 1963 - Technocrats of the imagination
    DDC: 700.1/050973
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    Keywords: Technology and the arts History 20th century ; Military-industrial complex ; Arts Experimental methods ; Art / Criticism & Theory ; Electronic books ; USA ; Medienkunst ; Militärtechnik ; Geschichte 1960-1969 ; Experiments in Art and Technology ; Laboratorium ; Militär
    Abstract: Science, Art, Democracy -- A Laboratory of Form and Movement: Institutionalizing Emancipatory Technicity at MIT -- The Hands-on Approach: Engineering Collaboration at E.A.T. -- Feedback: Expertise, LACMA and the Think-Tank -- How to Make the World Work -- Heritage of Our Times.
    Abstract: "TECHNOCRATS OF THE IMAGINATION traces the rise of collaborative art and technology labs in the U.S. from WWII to the present. Ryan Bishop and John Beck reveal the intertwined histories of the avant-garde art movement and the military-industrial complex, showing how radical pedagogical practices traveled from Germany's Bauhaus movement to the U.S. art world and interacted with government-funded military research and development in university laboratories. During the 1960s both media labs and studio labs leaned heavily on methods of interdisciplinary collaboration and the power of American modernity to model new modes of social organization. The book's chapters take up MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology, Bell Labs's E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) Salon, and Los Angeles Museum of Art's Art + Technology Program. Their interconnected history illuminates how much of contemporary media culture and aesthetics depends on the historical relationship between military, corporate, and university actors. In light of revived interest in Black Mountain College and other 1960s art and technology labs, this book draws important connections between the contemporary art world and the militarized lab model of research that has dominated the sciences since the 1950s. The authors situate the rise of collaborative art and technology projects in the 1960s within John Dewey's ideology of scientific democracy, showing how leading thinkers from the Bauhaus movement in Germany immigrated to the U.S. and brought with them a Deweyan model for collaborative and interdisciplinary art and technology research. Over the course of the decade, the U.S. government increased funding to scientific research at university and private laboratories. Beck and Bishop investigate how various art and technology projects incorporated the collaborative and innovative interdisciplinarity of the avant-garde art movement with the corporate funding structure driven by the U.S. government's military and technoscientific interests. Finally, the authors consider the legacy of 1960s art and technology projects. During the 1970s and 80s, defense R&D funding was less motivated by a Cold War corporate state, and was instead restructured according to an entrepreneurial and neoliberal model. At the same time, funding in the art world also became increasingly financialized and globalized. Today's art and technology work happens collaboratively not because of an intellectual commitment to interdis ...
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781478000426 , 9781478000563
    Language: English
    Pages: xxvi, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jarrell, Wadsworth Aikens, 1929- AFRICOBRA
    DDC: 704.9/42
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    Keywords: AFRICOBRA (Group of artists) ; Black Arts movement ; Ethnicity in art ; Art Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Africobra ; Geschichte 1965-1980
    Abstract: "AFRICOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was a multidisciplinary collective of black artists who created socially conscious art in Chicago during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's and 1970's. Artists Wadsworth Jarrell, Nelson Stevens, Jae Jarrell, Gerald Williams, and Napoloen Jones-Henderson produced textiles, paintings, sculpture and public art that sought to develop an aesthetic language that resonated with the black community. AFRICOBRA's abstract works convey the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life, while the structure of the collective offered a model of artistic practice embedded in the political realities and histories of the community. In this volume, Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founding members of the AFRICOBRA collective, offers an account of the history of the group and it's founding aesthetic and political principles. The bulk of the manuscript is selected from his archive of materials ranging from exhibition ephemera to photos that show the development of the group's art practice that collectively form a sourcebook history of the group.The sourcebook intersperses documentation of exhibitions, artworks, and the members of the collective in Chicago; documents that outline the aesthetic and political goals of the group written by its members; and writing from Jarrell that narrates the history of the collective from the point of view of its founder. The writing emphasizes the importance of the group's political principles to some of its largest projects, like the Wall of Respect, a public mural in Chicago's Black Belt neighborhood. While work by AFRICOBRA has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, the Tate, and elsewhere, this will be the first book to present an extensive record of the group's history, practice, and principles. This book will be of interest to our readers in art, African American studies, and cultural studies"--
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  • 9
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9781478008309 , 9781478007791
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 195 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bennett, Jane, 1957- Influx and efflux
    DDC: 811/.3
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    Keywords: Whitman, Walt Criticism and interpretation ; Sympathy in literature ; Human ecology in literature ; American literature History and criticism 19th century ; Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Prologue. Influx and efflux -- Position and disposition -- Circuits of sympathy -- Solar judgment -- Refrain. The alchemy of affects -- Bad influence -- Thoreau experiments with natural influences -- Epilogue. A peculiar efficacy.
    Abstract: "In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett explored the vital materiality of non-human objects and the deep interrelation of human and non-human forces. Yet she was left with a question: if we recognize human agency as bound up with the agentic forces of the material world, what does that mean for our conception of the self? Bennett's new work, INFLUX AND EFFLUX, draws on the work of Walt Whitman to address this question. Bennett uses Whitman's ideas of composition and decomposition, physical shapes and dispositions, and material and affective influences to posit a processual form of self that can form the basis for a more ecologically oriented and just world. This "democratic personality" is formed through constant influx and efflux (a reference to "Song of Myself") or influence, the way in which the sea, or anything external, comes in, changes things, and leaves again. The first chapter considers Whitman's ideology of "phiz"-a manner or position that affects one's disposition-which for Whitman was linked to the project of egalitarian democracy. Next, Bennett looks at sympathy as a more-than-human atmospheric force-considering the sympathetic currents involved in the transmission of pain, affection, love, and the erotic. Whitman called for his readers to engage in nonchalance and pluralism, instead of applying moral judgement-a stance that Bennett acknowledges might seem to contradict Whitman's ideal of a democratic vista. Yet Whitman assigned his poetry the task of expanding sympathy from the narrow confines of sentiment to a physical force itself. For example, Bennett shows that "I Sing the Body Electric" deliberately evokes a vital flow of sympathy that generates in the reader a sense of the linked value of every body-soul. Rather than directly engaging with the racialized violence of slavery in a way that might make people defensive, Whitman generated a cloud of possibility for abolitionist thought. Bennett concludes by considering Henry David Thoreau's engagements with natural influences-which he calls "the circulation of vitality beyond our bodies"-including sympathizing with trees and exploring psychedelic intoxication. For Bennett, these interactions represent a way of engaging with the more-than-human that recognizes the significant flows of influence that nature has on our lives. Beautifully written and accompanied by Bennett's own drawings and doodles, INFLUX AND EFFLUX will be an important text for scholars in literary theory, political th ...
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