Aug 2026· Social & Cultural Geography· Vol 27, pp. 867 - 876· 0 citations· 4 references
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ABSTRACT The invitation to reflect on the ‘books that made me’ indulges in a necessary albeit seductive fiction, namely, that reading unfolds causally, that intellectual life can be traced through a stable sequence of influences, and that books play into the creation of coherent subjects. This essay proceeds from a somewhat different proposition. Working through and alighting from four texts, namely, Friedrich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England, Félix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies, Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus, I consider reading as a practice of interruption and of undoing. Rather than recounting a genealogy of intellectual formation, the essay explores how books participate in a processual deterritorialisation of thought and in a concomitant unsettling of geographical sensibilities. What emerges is less a narrative of influence than an indeterminate cartography of encounters, misreadings, and affects through which theory becomes immanent to life.
In this paper, I explore the uncanny temporalities of ecological grief and present the moment as a means of navigating them. I begin by noting that the word “moment” contains opposite meanings, pertaining to a temporal period that could be long or short, significant or insignificant. The moment is defined and delimited...
An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers:
pombero
tricksters;
plata yvyguy
(buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters,
p...
Caroline E. Schuster· American Ethnologist· 0 citations
This paper discusses the archaic period of human exchange (c. 10,000–2,000 BCE) as a falsifiable empirical basis for the formalization of the Principle of Minimum Vital Action, as situated by Primo (2026) in Appendix A of the treatise Lambda-Value Theory (TVλ). It starts from the distinction between barter, proto-curre...
Rilton Gonçalo Bonfim Primo, J. F. Rodríguez· Revista Acadêmica Licencia&a...· 0 citations
This book examines the political, cultural, and theological metamorphoses of St. Francis of Assisi, tracing how a figure which today is associated with peace, nature, humility, and poverty served as a pillar of Italian Fascist political religion during the years of the regime. Through archival research, close textual a...
How does one know a whore is a whore? Upon what terms, standards, interpretive logics, and material practices does such knowledge depend? In Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom, Stephen Spiess pursues these questions and, in so doing, discovers the extraordinary cultural labor necessary to produce and sust...
This article examines Giambattista Vico’s reflection on the crisis of modernity, tracing its roots in the complex cultural and political environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Naples and, in particular, in his confrontation with Cartesianism and the new forms of scientific knowledge disseminated through the...
Manuela Sanna· Le Voci di Sophia· 0 citations
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