Category: Reads
Notes on an Anticolonial Athens
There’s a history that flickers and never fully comes into focus. An anticolonial Athens.
Notes on Subalternist Cosmopolitics in Greece and its Neighborhoods
In the context of globalization and of post-conflict and humanitarian interventions, the hegemonic ideal of cosmopolitanism, as the universal ideal of both European Enlightenment and the colonial civilizing mission, is been strongly contested. The very same context is also testing the limits of cultural relativism and human rights discourses which endow today’s neo-cosmopolitan hegemonic and unilateral legal practices with significance
Civilization, Again!
More than fifteen years ago Hamid Dabashi had written that, “The re-emergence of civilizational thinking at the last two decades of the 20th century…
Bicentennial Celebration[s] of Nation[s], Revisited
In 1988, Australia marked the bicentenary of two hundred years of European settlement. The Australian bicentenary sparked a public contestation over how to frame the nation’s history.
Defacement and/as Historical Redress
In 1963 the Order of AHEPA (Greek Organization of Americans of Hellenic Descent) commissioned Felix de Weldon, the sculptor of the iconic Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington