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This talk will unpack the paradox inherent in using, or bypassing, the lens of ‘Scale’ in the study of hunter-gatherers. In anthropology, ‘Scale’ is often applied as an etic (outsider) framework, which can inadvertently obscure the emic (insider) perspective. This key modern construct presumes a world composed of discrete, separable entities, understandable through categorization, comparison, and quantifiable units.

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Oggi il corpo è oggetto di mille attenzioni, ma di nessuna cura. Svanisce nel virtuale, ma s’impone in una iperrealtà truccata e decorativa. La medicina lo scompone in oggetti parziali, la politica lo piega ai suoi scopi, la vita online lo sottrae alle relazioni toccanti. Intanto, sugli schermi dei nostri cellulari, scorrono i corpi veri, quelli che, colpiti dalle bombe, vanno in frantumi e muoiono; quelli che, accoltellati nei femminicidi, perdono sangue e vita.

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This talk examines the political temporality of scale in dominant US media and popular discourse — specifically, the persistent use of the term ‘increasingly’ as a scalar alibi for fascism’s long-standing grip on Black life. Phrases like ‘increasingly authoritarian’, ‘worsening racism’, or ‘sliding into fascism’ depend on a vantage point that begins not with the plantation or the occupied zone, but with the belated disturbance of those previously unaffected.

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Tout au long de son œuvre, Pasolini n’aura cessé de s’adresser à la France, de l’interpeller, et la France lui a répondu. De quelle France a-t-il parlé ou a-t-il rêvé ? Quels écrivains et cinéastes, quelle poésie, quelle langue et quelle théorie entrèrent dans sa vie, dans ses vers et dans ses images ? D’autre part, de quel Pasolini la France a-t-elle parlé et parle-t-elle encore ? De quoi est fait son rêve de Pasolini ? En interrogeant les formes de ce dialogue entre Pasolini et la France, qui fut et qui est encore aujourd’hui à la fois intellectuel, sensuel et résolument intranquil, ce volume montre l’étrange et inextinguible actualité de Pasolini.

ISBN 978-3-96558-103-6 | Hardcover | 36 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-104-3 | Paperback | 18.5 EUR

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Falatório/Chatter delves into the life and work of Stella do Patrocínio (1941–1992), who was confined in Rio de Janeiro’s Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric asylum from the age of twenty-one until her death. The unique form of relentless speech that Do Patrocínio produced while institutionalized was dismissed by doctors as mere ‘logorrhoea’. Yet her falatório is far more: a defiant and poetic act that resists erasure by psychiatry, racism, and patriarchy. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book presents transcriptions of Do Patrocínio’s chatter in Portuguese and English, amplifying her voice as a testament to survival, power, and resistance.

ISBN 978-3-96558-099-2 | Hardcover | 45 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-100-5 | Paperback | 17.5 EUR

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