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Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
This article examines the intertwined dynamics of ecological crisis, digitalisation, and techno-primitivism through a genealogical and syncretic lens. It argues that the global ecological crisis is rooted not in a generalised “human impact,” but in the historical processes of colonialism and capitalist extractivism that have systematically depleted the Global South while concen-trating power and privilege in the Global North. As digital infrastructures expand, new forms of extractivism – especially data colonialism and digital colonialism – have intensified these global inequalities and externalised environmental harms. The paper critically assesses tech-no-primitivism as a reaction to technological alienation, highlighting its risk of reproducing co-lonial logics of othering by framing “primitive” or non-Western lifeways as static alternatives. Instead of technocratic or primitivist solutions, the study advocates for a transformative re-sponse based on decolonisation and relationality. Drawing on Indigenous, African, and plural philosophical traditions, it proposes centring the knowledge, rights, and agency of those most affected by ecological and digital injustices. The article contends that only by dismantling ex-tractivist, dualistic, and colonial paradigms and fostering reciprocal, relational approaches can more just, sustainable, and inclusive futures be achieved in both ecological and digital do-mains.
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Naive Art
Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th century.Until that time, this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics.
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Savage tales : the writings of Paul Gauguin
\"An original study of Gauguin's writings, unfolding their central role in his artistic practice and negotiation of colonial identity. As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. This is the first book devoted to his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics. It analyzes his original manuscripts, some of which are richly illustrated, reinstating them as an integral component of his art. The seemingly haphazard, collage-like structure of Gauguin's manuscripts enabled him to evoke the \"primitive\" culture that he celebrated, while rejecting the style of establishment critics. Gauguin's writing was also a strategy for articulating a position on the margins of both the colonial and the indigenous communities in Polynesia; he sought to protect Polynesian society from \"civilization\" but remained implicated in the imperialist culture that he denounced. This critical analysis of his writings significantly enriches our understanding of the complexities of artistic encounters in the French colonial context.\"--Publisher's description.
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Laws beyond spacetime
Quantum gravity’s suggestion that spacetime may be emergent and so only exist contingently would force a radical reconception of extant analyses of laws of nature. Humeanism presupposes a spatiotemporal mosaic of particular matters of fact on which laws supervene; primitivism and dispositionalism conceive of the action of primitive laws or of dispositions as a process of ‘nomic production’ unfolding over time. We show how the Humean supervenience basis of non-modal facts and primitivist or dispositionalist accounts of nomic production can be reconceived, avoiding a reliance on fundamental spacetime. However, it is unclear that naturalistic forms of Humeanism can maintain their commitment to there being no necessary connections among distinct entities. Furthermore, non-temporal conceptions of production render this central concept more elusive than before. In fact, the challenges run so deep that the survival of the investigated analyses into the era of quantum gravity is questionable.
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Gauguin : portraits
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phases of his career. Bringing together more than 60 of Gauguin's portraits in a wide variety of media that includes painting, works on paper, and sculpture, this handsomely illustrated volume is the first focused investigation of the multifaceted ways the artist approached the subject. Essays by a group of international experts consider how the artist's conception of portraiture evolved as he moved between Brittany and Polynesia. They also examine how Gauguin infused his work with symbolic meaning by taking on different roles like the Christ figure and the savage in his self-portraits and by placing his models in suggestive settings with alluring attributes. This welcome addition to the scholarship on one of the 19th century's most innovative and controversial artists reveals fascinating insights into the crucial role that portraiture played in Gauguin's overall artistic practice.
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Primitive Revolution
In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexico’s urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity—and the practice of Mexican citizenship—to a more pure and essential state. Focusing on three community formation projects—the Iglesia del Reino de Dios en su Plenitud, a Mormon-based polygamist organization; the Iglesia Luz del Mundo, an evangelical Protestant organization; and the Union Nacional Sinarquista, a semi-fascist Mexican Catholic group—Dormady argues that their attempts to establish religious authenticity mirror the efforts of officials to define the meaning of the Mexican Revolution in the era following its military phase. Despite the fact that these communities engaged in counterrevolutionary behavior, the state remained pragmatic and willing to be flexible depending on convergence of the group’s interests with those of the official revolution.
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Reductive Views of Knowledge and the Small Difference Principle
I develop a challenge to reductive views of knowing that$ \\phi $that appeal to what I call a gradable property. Such appeal allows for properties that are intrinsically very similar to the property of knowing that$ \\phi $, but differ significantly in their normative significance. This violates the independently plausible claim Pautz (2017) labels the ‘small difference principle.’
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Wilde Natur - primitives Leben
Die erste Monographie über einen der originellsten niederländischen Maler des 16. Jahrhunderts.Der in Antwerpen ansässige Cornelis van Dalem (1530/35–1573) war wie sein Vater Tuchhändler von Beruf, hatte aber auch das Malerhandwerk erlernt. Anders als den meisten seiner Zunftgenossen wurde ihm eine humanistische Ausbildung zuteil, er besaß eine reich ausgestattete Bibliothek und hinterließ ein zahlenmäßig bescheidenes, aber ungemein wichtiges Werk. In der Kunstgeschichte wurde van Dalem bislang vor allem als besonders erfinderischer Landschaftsmaler geschätzt. Die \"wilde Natur\" mit ihren bizarren Felsformationen, die seine Bilder zeigen, ist jedoch nicht Selbstzweck. Sie bildet den Rahmen für Darstellungen unterschiedlicher Formen \"primitiven Lebens\". Die meist mit Hilfe von Antwerpener Malerkollegen ausgeführten Figuren belegen van Dalems Interesse an verschiedenen Phasen der Urgeschichte der Menschheit, am asketischen Leben von Eremiten, aber auch an den Bräuchen der aus dem Osten eingewanderten \"Zigeuner\". Im Gegensatz zu seinen Zeitgenossen beurteilte er deren Lebensweise nicht negativ, sondern setzte sie in Kontrast zu den prekären Lebensumständen der einheimischen bäuerlichen Bevölkerung. Für van Dalems rebellischen Charakter spricht die Tatsache, dass er, als Ketzer verdächtigt, Antwerpen verlassen musste. Als Exilierter verbrachte er die letzten acht Lebensjahre auf einem Landsitz bei Breda.Wilde Natur – primitives Leben ist die erste Gesamtdarstellung dieses Werks. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen illustriert, wird das Schaffen des Malers als kohärentes intellektuelles Projekt präsentiert. Vor der Folie der in antiken Texten entwickelten Vorstellungen vom Goldenen Zeitalter erscheint van Dalems Werk als eine Anthropologie avant la lettre, als eine Reflexion über die Bedingungen für ein glückliches Leben.
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