Of turning and tropes

Keeling, Diane Marie

doi:10.1080/15358593.2016.1215627

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“…I begin by briefly discussing the emergence of these scenes for Classical Athenians and Greco-Romans, and then discuss the revival of the myth during the 19th century and birth of white feminism. I trace iterations of history that do not demonstrate cause–effect relationships but rather presencing-effects from “what resonates, the vibratory rhythms of a gathering of incalculable practices” that “pervade the prevailing political economy” (Keeling, 2016, p. 318). The labyrinth myth is not always cut this way, but it can be and has been.…”

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Colonizing cuts of labyrinth mythology, a tangling parable of white sensibilities

Keeling

2020

Communication and the Public

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This article demonstrates the way wounds, and affects generally, are figured by the writing of history. It traces patterns of thinking about the labyrinth primarily in histories, theories, and myths of the past 150 years to demonstrate how the labyrinth has been cut by colonization. From the Mycenaean colonization of Indigenous Cretans (inaccurately named “Minoans”) to the emergence of white feminism and its present day practice, figures of the labyrinth iteratively cut history to perpetuate the un/common loss of colonized communities and to enact white racist sensibilities of exclusion. Entangling Karen Barad’s cutting together-apart and Kent Ono’s colonial amnesia, colonizing cuts are constitutive exclusions that wound and exclude colonized communities from history and world making.

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Section: White Sensibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%