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[thecosmiccircus]

Review: 'Bruce Willis: Celebrating the Cinematic Legacy of an Unbreakable Hollywood Icon' by Sean O’Connell

Bruce Willis is undeniably one of the most beloved pop culture icons of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It all started in the 1980s, when Willis landed an uncredited role in Brian G. Hutton’s The First Deadly Sin. But to me, his first ever meaningful role was as Tony Amato in one of my favorite TV shows, Miami Vice. From there, he started getting cast in more important roles, such as the…

[buildingrelationshipsinanarchy]

Compersion, Jealousy, and Polyamory/Consensual Non-Monogamy Research Dump.

(I'm also thinking of making a discord, telegram, or whatsapp group to like read these and other articles and discuss and develop our own ideas in relation to all this info. Please dm, comment or add something in the reblogs to let me know if that's worth the time.)

Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory FERRER, JORGE N. (2022). Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield. ix þ 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1538156575 From Romantic Jealousy to Sympathetic Joy: Monogamy, Polyamory, and Beyond Ferrer, Jorge N. "Monogamy, polyamory, and beyond: spirituality and intimate relationships." Tikkun, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2007, pp. 37+. Gale Academic OneFile

Polyamorous Individuals’ Jealous and Compersive Responses to Their Partner’s New Relationship Energy: The Role of Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Empathy Clemons-Castaños, C. R. (2024). Polyamorous individuals’ jealous and compersive responses to their Partner’s new relationship energy: The role of mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and empathy (Order No. 31293851).

Your Happiness Is My Happiness: Predicting Positive Feelings for a Partner’s Consensual Extra‑Dyadic Intimate Relations Flicker, S.M., Sancier-Barbosa, F. Your Happiness Is My Happiness: Predicting Positive Feelings for a Partner’s Consensual Extra-Dyadic Intimate Relations. Arch Sex Behav 53, 941–958 (2024)

Classifying Our Metamour/Partner Emotional Response Scale (COMPERSe)

Polyagony: An Exploration of Jealousy Deri, Jillian. Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015

If You Move to the Rainforest, You’ve Got No Right to Complain about the Rain: From Polyagony to Compersion Deri, Jillian. Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015

Triangular Trouble: A Phenomenological Exploration of Jealousy’s Archetypal Nature in Polyamorous Individuals Hamilton, Jolene Emily. "Triangular Trouble: A Phenomenological Exploration of Jealousy’s Archetypal Nature in Polyamorous Individuals." Order No. 27743962 Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2020. United States -- California: ProQuest.

Transforming Jealousy and Envy Into Compersion A Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy Orion, R. (2018). A Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy: Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Marriage (1st ed.). Routledge.

Working with Clients Who Are Non-monogamous And Those Who Want to Be Nichols, M. (2020). The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients: The Inclusive Psychotherapist (1st ed.). Routledge

Attempts to Sublimate: Compersion Fosse, M.J. (2021). The Many Faces of Polyamory: Longing and Belonging in Concurrent Relationships (1st ed.). Routledge

Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Experience of Compersion Among Individuals in Consensually Non‑Monogamous Relationships Flicker, S.M., Thouin-Savard, M.I. & Vaughan, M.D. Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Experience of Compersion Among Individuals in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships. Arch Sex Behav 51, 3035–3048 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02333-4

Feeling Good About Your Partners’ Relationships: Compersion in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships Flicker, S.M., Vaughan, M.D. & Meyers, L.S. Feeling Good About Your Partners’ Relationships: Compersion in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships. Arch Sex Behav 50, 1569–1585 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-01985-y

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books and articles about about comics, superheroes, dc and batman

books Ahrens, J., & Meteling, A. (Eds.). (2010). Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence. A&C Black.

Bongco, M. (2014). Reading comics: Language, culture, and the concept of the superhero in comic books. Routledge.

Brode, D. (Ed.). (2022). The DC Comics Universe: Critical Essays. McFarland.

Brooker, W. (2013). Batman unmasked: Analyzing a cultural icon. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Burke, L., Gordon, I., & Ndalianis, A. (Eds.). (2020). The superhero symbol: media, culture, and politics. Rutgers University Press.

Dittmer, J., & Bos, D. (2019). Popular culture, geopolitics, and identity. Rowman & Littlefield.

DiPaolo, M. (2014). War, politics and superheroes: Ethics and propaganda in comics and film. McFarland.

Dyer, B. (Ed.). (2009). Supervillains and Philosophy: sometimes, evil is its own reward (Vol. 42). Open Court Publishing.

Geaman, K. L. (Ed.). (2015). Dick Grayson, boy wonder: Scholars and creators on 75 years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman. McFarland.

Giddens, T. (Ed.). (2015). Graphic justice: Intersections of comics and law. Routledge.

Heer, J., & Worcester, K. (Eds.). (2009). A comics studies reader. Univ. Press of Mississippi.

Irwin, W. (2009). Batman and philosophy: The dark knight of the soul. John Wiley & Sons.

Langley, T. (2022). Batman and psychology: A dark and stormy knight. Turner Publishing Company.

McKittrick, C. (2015). Fan phenomena: Batman, edited by Liam Burke.

Ndalianis, A. (Ed.). (2009). The contemporary comic book superhero (Vol. 19). Routledge.

O'Connor, L. R. (2021). Robin and the Making of American Adolescence. Rutgers University Press.

O'Neil, D., & Wilson, L. (Eds.). (2008). Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City. BenBella Books.

Packer, S., & Fredrick, D. R. (Eds.). (2020). Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution. McFarland.

Pearson, R., & Uricchio, W. (Eds.). (2023). The many lives of the Batman: Critical approaches to a superhero and his media. Taylor & Francis.

Pearson, R., Uricchio, W., & Brooker, W. (Eds.). (2017). Many more lives of The Batman. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Picariello, D. K. (Ed.). (2019). Politics in Gotham: the Batman universe and political thought. Springer.

Pustz, M. (Ed.). (2012). Comic books and American cultural history: An anthology. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Romagnoli, A. S., & Pagnucci, G. S. (2013). Enter the superheroes: American values, culture, and the canon of superhero literature. Scarecrow Press.

Smith, M. J., & Duncan, R. (Eds.). (2012). Critical approaches to comics: Theories and methods. Routledge.

Smith, M. J., Brown, M., & Duncan, R. (Eds.). (2019). More critical approaches to comics: theories and methods. Routledge.

Weiner, R. G. (Ed.). (2009). Captain America and the struggle of the superhero: Critical essays. McFarland.

Weldon, G. (2017). The caped crusade: Batman and the rise of nerd culture. Simon and Schuster.

White, M. D. (2019). Batman and ethics. John Wiley & Sons.

Worcester, K., Heer, J., & Hatfield, C. (Eds.). (2013). The Superhero Reader. University Press of Mississippi.

articles Authers, B. (2012). What Had Been Many Became One: Continuity, the Common Law, and Crisis on Infinite Earths. Law Text Culture, 16, i.

Austin, S. (2015). Batman's female foes: the gender war in Gotham City. Journal of Popular Culture (Boston), 48(2), 285-295.

Avery, C. (2023). Paternalism, performative masculinity and the post-9/11 cowboy in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 12(1), 65-81.

Bainbridge, J. (2007). “This is the Authority. This Planet is Under Our Protection”—An Exegesis of Superheroes' Interrogations of Law. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 3(3), 455-476.

Best, M. (2005). Domesticity, homosociality, and male power in superhero comics of the 1950s. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(1).

Brienza, C. (2010). Producing comics culture: a sociological approach to the study of comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1(2), 105-119.

Camp, L. D. (2017). ‘Time to ride the monster train’: multiplicity, the Midnighter and the threat to hegemonic superhero masculinity. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 8(5), 464-479.

Camp, L. D. (2018). "Be of Knightly Countenance": Masculine Violence and Managing Affect in Late Medieval Alliterative Poetry and Batman: Under The Red Hood (Doctoral dissertation, University of South Carolina).

Cocca, C. (2014). Negotiating the third wave of feminism in Wonder Woman. PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(1), 98-103.

Coogan, P. (2018). Wonder Woman: superheroine, not superhero. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 9(6), 566-580.

Cohn, N., Hacımusaoğlu, I., & Klomberg, B. (2023). The framing of subjectivity: Point-of-view in a cross-cultural analysis of comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 14(3), 336-350.

Costello, M. J., & Worcester, K. (2014). The politics of the superhero: Introduction. PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(1), 85-89.

Crutcher, P. A. (2011). Complexity in the comic and graphic novel medium: Inquiry through bestselling Batman stories. The Journal of Popular Culture, 44(1), 53-72.

Curtis, N. (2013). Superheroes and the contradiction of sovereignty. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 4(2), 209-222.

Fennell, J. (2012). The aesthetics of supervillainy. Law Text Culture, 16, i.

Giddens, T. (2015). Natural law and vengeance: Jurisprudence on the streets of Gotham. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 28(4), 765-785.

Guynes, S. (2019). Worlds Will Live, Worlds Will Die: Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Anxieties and Calamities of the Comic-Book Event. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 3(2), 171-190.

Hall, K. J., & Lucal, B. (1999). Tapping into parallel universes: Using superhero comic books in sociology courses. Teaching sociology, 27(1), 60-66.

Hatchell, R. (2023). ‘We prefer protégé’: The temporal function of sidekicks in Young Justice and Titans. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 12(1), 83-97.

Jeong, S. H. (2020). Sovereign Agents of Mythical and (Pseudo-) Divine Violence. Walter Benjamin and Global Biopolitical Cinema. The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 4(2), 81-98.

Jimenez, P. (2021). Wonder Woman, Feminist Icon? Queer Icon? No, Love Icon. In Wonder Woman (pp. 23-36). Routledge.

Lang, R. (1990). Batman and Robin: A family romance. American imago, 47(3/4), 293-319.

Petrovic, P. (2016). Queer resistance, gender performance, and ‘coming out’of the panel borders in Greg Rucka and JH Williams III’s Batwoman: Elegy. In Superheroes and Identities (pp. 221-230). Routledge.

Philips, M. (2022). Violence in the American imaginary: Gender, race, and the politics of superheroes. American Political Science Review, 116(2), 470-483.

Pitkethly, C. (2016). The pursuit of identity in the face of paradox: indeterminacy, structure and repetition in Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. In Superheroes and Identities (pp. 87-94). Routledge.

Powell, T. (2023). ‘You’re a refugee, are you not?’‘Extraordinary bodies’, monstrous outsiders and US refugee policies in superhero comics. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 12(1), 9-20.

Romero, L. G., & Dahlman, I. (2012). Justice framed: Law in comics and graphic novels. Law Text Culture, 16, vii.

Schott, G. (2010). From fan appropriation to industry re-appropriation: the sexual identity of comic superheroes. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1(1), 17-29.

Sereni, E. (2020). "When I'm Bad, I'm Better": from early Villainesses to contemporary antiheroines in superhero comics.

Sharp, C. (2012). 'Riddle me this…? 'would the world need superheroes if the law could actually deliver justice'?. Law Text Culture, 16, 353-378.

Shyminsky, N. (2011). ‘‘Gay’’ Sidekicks: Queer Anxiety and the Narrative Straightening of the Superhero. Men and Masculinities, 14(3), 288-308.

Valentine, G. (2021). Empire of a wicked woman: Catwoman, royalty, and the making of a comics icon. In Wonder Woman (pp. 93-112). Routledge.

Weston, G. (2013). Superheroes and comic-book vigilantes versus real-life vigilantes: an anthropological answer to the Kick-Ass paradox. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 4(2), 223-234.

Whaley, D. E. (2011). Black cat got your tongue?: Catwoman, blackness, and the alchemy of postracialism. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2(1), 3-23.

Wolf-Meyer, M. J. (2006). Batman and Robin in the nude, or class and its exceptions. Extrapolation (pre-2012), 47(2), 187.

York, C. (2000). All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s. International Journal of Comic Art, 2(2), 100-110.

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Was it worthwhile? Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

— Fernando Pessoa, "Mar Português" ("Portuguese Sea"), Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy: Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. October 21, 2021. Editors: Antonio Cardiello, Bartholomew Ryan, Giovanbattista Tusa. (via Thoughts)

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The Hindu path, as Vivekananda famously declared, has no sinners. In this, it takes a position diametrically opposite, for instance, to Christianity. In Hinduism, there are no souls to save and man is born without original sin. This is why Vivekananda declared at the World’s Parliament of Religions in 1893, “The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth. . . . The Parliament of Religions . . . has proved . . . that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world.” In fact, Hinduism argues for the other extreme. It says, to quote Vivekananda again, “each soul is potentially divine.”[1] We must now ask what it means and how my life (or yours) changes with the knowledge that each soul is potentially divine. I can only explain how I have understood it and how it has worked for me. Once you start to think about this idea that each and every soul—yours included—is potentially divine, you start to get a little nervous. Why? Because it takes away our emotional and psychological crutches. When you realize that, in reality, you have nothing to fall back upon but yourself, it breaches the most secure barriers and fortresses in the mind, those we usually keep protected by the idea of God.

Hindol Sengupta - Being Hindu_ Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World-Rowman & Littlefield (2017)

[lgbtqsilentfilmproject]

Different From the Others (1919)

Directed by Richard Oswald

Starring: Conrad Veidt, Rheinhold Schüznel, Magnus Hirschfekd.

Different From The Others is the first openly gay film to be made - ever. Its influence can still be felt in film today as it rallies against discriminatory laws against gay individuals and advocated for acceptance in society.

Only partially salvaged from time, Different From The Others’ legacy held a candle for all of those who came after it in history. Being made as a reaction to Paragraph 175, Germany’s law against homosexuality, this film is the first of its kind to ever be made. While not the first movie made by queer or LGBTQ+ artists, it is the first to have a positive portrayal of gay individuals in a motion picture. That, alongside explicitly gay characters and their romance as a main aspect for the plot.

Different made a strong impact in Germany upon its initial release. Causing outrage and sparking support, many of those critiquing the film were disgusted it was ever allowed to be released, despite coming out during a time when Paragraph 175 was not being enforced and LGBTQ+ films were released without legal action being taken against the filmmakers.

This film is included on this list about American silent film due to its influence and impact on the Hollywood film scene . Specifically, on LGBTQ+ filmmakers or actors who wanted to express themselves more freely in their chosen medium of film. When it comes to the films influenced by Different From the Others, Salome and The Pleasure Garden are two of the American films that spawned from Different. Even throughout the 20th century, films such as Victim lifted their plot from Different From The Others, songs were inspired by the film, as well as documentaries detailing the legacy the film left behind.

Notes and References:

Benshoff, Harry M., Griffin, Sean, Queer Images : A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America, (Blue Ridge, Summit: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2005)

 Malakaj, Ervin, "Richard Oswald, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Possible Impossibility of Hygienic Melodrama", Studies in European Cinema vol 14 no 3 (2017), 216–230.

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The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory | Larry Alan Busk

What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism, and fascism as a matter of course. The philosophical differences, however, may be more apparent than real. 

The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666929638...)  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) argues that dominant trends in critical and radical theory inadvertently reproduce the cardinal tenets of the twentieth century’s most influential right-wing philosophers. It finds the rejection of foundationalism, rationalism, economic planning, and vanguardism mirrored in the work of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Strauss. If it is to be more than merely an inverted image of the Right, critical theory must reevaluate its relationship to what Julius Nyerere once called “deliberate design” in politics. In the era of anthropogenic climate change, a substantial—not merely nominal—departure from right-wing talking points is all the more necessary and momentous.

Morteza Hajizadeh (   / a48266  )  is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel (   / a48266  ) . Twitter (  / talkartculture  ) .

[mariacallous]

If you're looking for a publisher catalogue to go through, Rowman and Littlefield is having a huge sale before they switch distributors.

ooooooh...that's the last thing I need with how broke I am currently, but also...

[whencyclopedia]

Caravaggio: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

Launched in 2018, Rowman & Littlefield's book series Significant Figures in World History contains academic encyclopedias of famous people in history, ranging from Catherine the Great to Nelson Mandela. These titles all conclude a chronology of the person's life, alphabetical encyclopedia entries, and a bibliography. Lilian H. Zirpolo's contribution to the series, Caravaggio: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works, provides a thorough introduction to Caravaggio's life and the Italian art trend at large, covering both popular and overlooked parts of the influential Italian artist's life. Students of art history who are just starting to conduct academic research would benefit the most from this book. Advanced-level high school art or history classes could also use this book for reference.

Continue reading...

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Blog Post Due 10/10

What are some barriers that prevent women from reporting violence? The root cause of violence against women is gender inequality, which exists in almost every society. Some barriers that prevent women from reporting violence includes fear of retaliation, mistrust of law enforcement, social stigma, financial dependence on the perpetrator, and cultural barriers that further deter women from reporting. Many of them have concerns regarding repercussions on their children or family members. Many of these victims have never sought help from public services. The consequences of gender-based violence not only affect individuals or families but also negatively impact the economic development of society. Many women often suffer emotional, mental and physical injuries.

How does technology help and hinder efforts to fight violence against women? Technology can be helpful with the provision of a venue for awareness campaigns and also facilitating access to support services. In the same way, technology can easily make it possible to stalk and harass via social media or digital surveillance; hence, safe online practices must be promoted. In Miriam Hernandez's speech, people used social media for awareness campaigns to support the victims when there were many cases of violation against women in Mexico when the victims were blamed for their actions even after they were murdered.

In what ways can data collection practices be biased? According to Benjamin, technology is never neutral but instead reinforces racial biases and injustices. In this regard, the author insists on the urgency of considering how race interacts with technology by pointing to the consideration of the impact that technological developments have on society. Practices for data collection could be biased, hence driving underrepresentations that make inaccurate assumptions about particular demographics. Algorithms can also mirror particular biases in society that are currently in operation, leading to discrimination in recommendations regarding content or advertisements.

How has the internet contributed to the spread of white supremacist ideologies? White supremacy is a form of racism that maintains the superiority of whites over other races and believes whites should have the leading position in society at the cost of others. It is an ideology whereby white people feel themselves threatened due to growing non-white populations. It strongly agitates for the political and social dominance of whites. The internet allows the rapid dissemination of information and to create an echo chamber where extremist views can be fostered. Through social media and forums, people with particular views are allowed to get in contact with each other, share content amongst themselves, and recruit people away from the public eye. Therefore, the expansion of the Internet and social media has given white supremacy propaganda and recruitment an easy way to move forward, raising concerns about cyber racism and the reported uptick in racially motivated violence.

References: Benjamin, R. (2019). Race After Technology.

Miriam Hernandez' talk on Violence Against Women.

Daniels, J. (2009). Combating Global White Supremacy in the Digital Era. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

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Hey book side of tumblr I am looking for any book recommendations for if I wanted to do like. A multicultural/diversity book club type thing - all book recommendations welcome

Rn I have white fragility by robin diangelo, a positive view of LGBTQ by rowman and littlefield, neurotribes by silberman, and a race is a nice thing to have by janet helms

Looking for recommendations for ANY populations, and preferably multiple for each culture/identity piece to get some different perspectives and voices! Can be autobiographies, anthropological/psychological/sociological type books, or just really neat perspectives

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Freud, Sigmund. The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Edited by Anna Freud and Mark Solms, Translated by James Strachey, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.

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"In First Sight theory, several almost universal, implicit assumptions about psi are changed. Psi is not an ability; ESP is not knowledge; PK is not action. Perhaps the most important one is the new assumption that psi is not an ability. Instead, it is a universal characteristic of living organisms, a basic feature of their being in the world. It is the fact that we are all unconsciously and perpetually engaged in a universe of meaning that extends far beyond our physical boundaries in space and time. It is not an ability, better in some than in others, called up sometimes and not other times. It is always going on for all of us. It is less like riding a bicycle or discriminating red from green and more like being perpetually engaged as physical bodies with the reality of gravity, or as social beings with an interpersonal world of others. It is an unconscious and ubiquitous but still largely unmapped aspect of our nature."

James C. Carpenter, First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), 84.

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An internet friend sent this awhile back, not even sure what book this is from, but that's a photo of Billy Childish's home library, and the astute can see my book circled in there! Granted, Billy's a big part of it, so he better have the fuckin' thing, but still -- NEAT!!

I might note that Billy's copy is the original 2010 orange cover edition. In 2022, I whipped up a new expanded edition for Rowman & Littlefield, featuring a new green cover, with way cool Gories shot, two more chapters, and loads more images including like 33 color pix! Plus a download compilation of noisemakers from the book!

I wonder if Billy's got that one? I'll have to ring him up...

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Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. He creates work that explores colonialism, post colonialism and globalisation. He is known for his use of Dutch wax cloth. Similar to how Said (1978) investigated oriental fabrics, Shonibare found that the fabric was not actually african but rather they originate from “Indonesia, from whence it travelled to Holland then onto Manchester and only then finally reached Africa.”(Guha 1994) The revelation that they were not genuine patterns did not stop Shonibare from using them. Instead, it gave his work another dimension: it demonstrates transindividuality and the separation of identity from fixed nation states. 

He is also known for his patterned headless sculptures that were inspired by nineteenth century british dresses from the Victoria and Albert Museum. His playful style deconstructs and reconstructs history by mixing different elements from juxtaposing cultures. He calls this collection of work “ethnocised aristocracy” (Bloomberg Originals, 2015). By removing the heads of the figures, he creates a sense of anonymity. Without a face, the viewer cannot assume their race or ethnicity. Like many of the other artists, the hybridity expressed also shows fragmentation and an “erosion of boundaries”(Nederveen, 2009)

I think it is quite charming how he separates his political stand point in order to create fun and lightheatred art, that is accessible by any individual. He wants to convey multiplicity as he says “I’m more interested in this idea of a hybrid” (Jagoe, 2017) as opposed to the interpretation from writers that the work is about “cultural appropriation” (Young, 2018) 

In my work, I would like to think about embedding the symbolism in the pattern and the significance of the patterns that I am using. For example, in my second lino I have used a tiger print. The connotations of the tiger and the origins of the iconography can be different to different individuals however the complexity of the symbols give my work more depth, like how Shonibare used textiles that have a long convoluted history.

Bloomberg Originals, 2015, Portraying the Sordid Shadow of Colonial History: Yinka Shonibare Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rAIMV0k4M&ab_channel=BloombergOriginals

Guha, T,  1994 Yinka Shonibare ‘Double Dutch’, Third Text, 8:27, 87-90, DOI: 10.1080/09528829408576491

Jagoe, R. (2017, January 13). Colonialism And Cultural Hybridity: An Interview With Yinka Shonibare, MBE.

Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2009). Hybridity, so what? The anti-hybridity backlash and the riddels of recognition. In J. Nederveen Pieterse, Globalization and Culture (pp. 95-121). United States of America: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Said, E, 1978, Orientalism, New York: Random House

Shonibare, Y, 1994, Double Dutch

Shonibare, Y, 2004 Scramble for Africa

Young, A. (2018). Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard). Available at: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/global-contemporary-apah/21st-century-apah/a/yinka-shonibare-the-swing-after-fragonard

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