Borders, human itineraries, and all our relation
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- ISBN: 9781039009110
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151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Publisher: Toronto : Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Wey dey move / Dele Adeyemo -- Fusings / Natalie Diaz -- Walking barefoot / Nadia Yala Kisukidi ; translation by Pablo Strauss -- Towards another shape of this world / Rinaldo Walcott. |
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Subject: | Boundaries (Philosophy) Identity (Philosophical concept) Ethnicity |
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Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.
In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways.
    Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how âthe environments that surround us condition the possibility of our being.â Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel Oâotham) writes: âLike story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,â and asks, âWhat is the language we need to live right now?â Philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi (France) suggests there is no diasporic life âwithout the dynamics of fabulation, where we pass down, from generation to generation, the stories of our ancestors who walked barefoot for many months.â And cultural theorist Rinaldo Walcott (Canada) asks us to consider inheritances beyond white supremacist logics: âWhat might it mean to live a life, if we canât risk desiring and working towards utopia?â
    As each Alchemist considers the legacies of anti-colonial struggle, the future of the planet, and the textures of Black and Indigenous life, their essays speak to each other in multiple ways, creating something startling and revelatory: a vision of the world as it is, and as it could be.