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Ariella Azoulay

Autor(a) de The Civil Contract of Photography

20 Works 259 Membros 3 Reviews

About the Author

Ariella Asha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her works include Civil Imagination and The Civil Contract of Photography, and the films Civil Alliances and Un-Documented.

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My review can be found here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00454-w

This book demands that readers undertake the paradoxical and difficult task of unlearning something that has become a pervasive feature of their lives, namely imperialism. According to Azoulay, an initial problem with unlearning imperialism is that for most of us, our thinking and acting—indeed, our very being-in-the-world—is conditioned by imperialism. Unlearning imperialism is a paradoxical task because we must first learn how imperialism works by rendering its working explicit so that we might unlearn it. We must learn how imperialism has made us who we are if we are to have any hope of unlearning it. The task of learning something in order to unlearn it is paradoxical, but it is also difficult because those of us in academia have been conditioned to strive for mastery: we must demonstrate mastery of a subject before we can progress, and this is how education typically works from the earlier grades up through graduate school. Azoulay writes that what motivated her to write this book was her attempt to unlearn her Israeli identity in order to imagine what it might have meant to have been an Algerian or Palestinian Jew (pp. xiii–xiv). Although pedagogical concerns are not an explicit part of Potential History, thinking about the institutional norms that govern learning provide a useful example of how imperialism conditions us to think and act, for both mastery and progress are key concepts of imperialism, according to Azoulay.… (mais)
 
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mccallco | Sep 7, 2021 |
Gwangju Biennale September 3 - November 7, 2010.

'The Gwangju Biennale, which was founded in September 1995 in the city of Gwangju in the South Jeolla province of South Korea, is Asia's first and most prestigious contemporary art biennale.[1] Founded in memory of spirits of civil uprising of the 1980 repression of the Gwangju Democratization Movement, the Gwangju Biennale presents a global perspective on contemporary art.'
 
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Centre_A | Nov 27, 2020 |

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20
Membros
259
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#88,671
Avaliação
½ 3.6
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3
ISBNs
30
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5

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