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Edouard Glissant & Hans Ulrich Obrist

9783775728874

Edouard Glissant & Hans Ulrich Obrist

  • ISBN 13:

    9783775728874

  • ISBN 10:

    3775728872

  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 04/30/2012
  • Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg
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Summary

This notebook is Hans Ulrich Obrist's homage to the French author, poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928-2011). Glissant, one of the most influential figures of the French-speaking Caribbean and a pioneer of postcolonial thinking, called attention to "means of global exchange which do not homogenize culture but produce a difference from which new things can emerge." Obrist encountered Glissant at the beginning of his career, through the recommendation of Alighiero Boetti. In his introduction, Obrist creates a multilayered portrait of the intellectual, laying out some of his key concepts: the creolization of the world, "archipelic thought," and the museum as archipelago, as well as utopia. These ideas are explored by Glissant in a selection of title pages of his books with drawings, notations and poetic dedications that are reproduced here in facsimile.

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