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Journal of Postcolonial Writing
vol.
55
no.
4
2019
17146699
2019
periodical issue
'In his recent Holberg Prize acceptance lecture, Paul Gilroy called for new forms of “lowly thinking” for the 21st century, in opposition to the “rarified habits of high theory”.
Forms of affective thinking that place at their heart the “primal responsibility we bear towards others”, he argued, can help constitute “a transformational practice that points beyond unsustainable arrangements towards better ones from which, in turn, richer conceptions of the human, untrammelled by racial styles of thought, may have already started to emerge”. Gilroy is not alone in his call for new modes of thinking in a fast-changing and increasingly uncertain contemporary world: over the past decade the humanities have seen a surge in critical work that calls for new approaches to theorizing 21st-century culture: affect studies, post-postmodernism, posthumanism, metamodernism, and the like.' (Editorial introduction)
2019 pg. 541-554
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