PRISONERS OF SHOTHIK ITIHASH

Naeem Mohaiemens films, photography, mixed media objects, and writing commingle major and minor histories in relation to the South Asian subcontinental triangle of nations, and the familiar histories of multiple partitions. Susan Buck-Morss recently argued that t he Haitian slave revolt was the inspiration for Hegel's idea of the dialectic. But this argument can be taken further than Buck-Mors s herself, to bypass the European Enlightenment altogether and establish Haiti's slave rebels as the root source for the concept of universal h...[Llegir més]