ABSTRACT
This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present époque.
The book tackles interrelated aspects of unsettlement including temporality, the disconcerting effects of the Anthropocene, the biomedical facets of unsettlement, and the post-pandemic futures. It uses a chimeric approach combining essayistic and speculative fiction writing methods, negotiating rational, affective and imaginative ways of inquiry, and showing rather than merely explaining. The book poses questions, but gives no ready-made answers, and invites us to think together on the unsettlement as a negatively global human condition that can be collectively made into a generative move of resurgence and refuturing.
Contributing to critical reflections on the main features and sensibilities of the current époque, the book will be of interest to scholars and undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the general public, interested in critical global and future perspectives, in decolonial research, gender studies, and posthumanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|15 pages
Introduction
part II|51 pages
Variations on the time of unsettlement
chapter Chapter 1|13 pages
Furia and the zärdaly jam
chapter Chapter 2|36 pages
Can we fix the disjointed time?
part III|57 pages
We will never be settled again
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
A tower on the Simurgh Mountain 1
chapter Chapter 4|41 pages
The unsettled worlding(s)
part IV|48 pages
Against immunity
chapter Chapter 5|8 pages
A cream-cheese choux
chapter Chapter 6|28 pages
Biomedical coloniality and the Covid-19 conundrum
chapter Chapter 7|10 pages
A portrait of an unknown lady
part V|46 pages
Carmen Saeculare