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Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World - by Anselm Franke & Elisa Giuliano & Denise Ryner & Claire Tancons & Zairong Xiang (Paperback)
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- Artists and writers explore Sylvia Wynter's postcolonial dismantling of origin myths and cosmologiesAccording to the influential Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive.
- Author(s): Anselm Franke & Elisa Giuliano & Denise Ryner & Claire Tancons & Zairong Xiang
- 388 Pages
- Literary Collections, Essays
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Artists and writers explore Sylvia Wynter's postcolonial dismantling of origin myths and cosmologies
According to the influential Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive." Drawing inspiration from her seminal essays "The Ceremony Must Be Found" (1984) and "The Ceremony Found" (2015), Ceremony draws on Wynter's thinking to suggest that "modernity," contrary to its own self-image as rational and secular, is also determined by origin myths that emerged through the "mutations" of Christian cosmology after the dawn of capitalism in the Middle Ages. With over 25 contributions and commentaries on Wynter's propositions from artists and writers, this publication constitutes a critical reference point for those seeking to construct and envisage a "counter-cosmogony" to the dispossession, slavery and extractivism of modernity that so endanger planetary life for humankind.