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The New World of the Caribbean provides Scott with a vantage point from which to analyse the histories of forms of domination and the prospects of emancipation that organise political modernity. His writing stages a series of encounters between the revolutionary texts of the New World imagination and the political sensibility of contemporary generations separated by worlds, times and spaces; in doing so, his writing reimagines and renarrates the changing relations of anti-colonial futures past to neo-colonial pasts present.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0;\">\u003Cstrong>On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages: Walter Rodney’s \u003C/strong>\u003Ci>\u003Cstrong>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa\u003C/strong>\u003C/i>\u003Cstrong> between Revolution and Reparation.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0;\">How should we reread in the present representative texts of the insurgent 1970s, the great age of socialist and Pan-African radicalism? The text with which I have been concerned is Walter Rodney’s \u003Ci>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa\u003C/i>, first published in 1972. This book is representative of the ethos of the radical anglophone Caribbean 1970s in the sense that it stages a vivid narrative of the relationship between the past of African enslavement, the present of underdevelopment, and the future of socialist revolution. However, we cannot continue to read it in this way in contemporary conditions in which the old horizons of revolutionary socialist transformation and Pan-Africanism have collapsed. And yet, something salient in Rodney’s book is \u003Ci>calling\u003C/i> it into a new present and provoking us to ask, how, now, to reread it. 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He is the author of seven books, \u003Ci>Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil\u003C/i> (Minnesota, 1994), \u003Ci>Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality\u003C/i> (Princeton, 1999), \u003Ci>Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment\u003C/i> (Duke, 2004), \u003Ci>Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice\u003C/i> (Duke, 2014), and \u003Ci>Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity\u003C/i>(Duke, 2017), \u003Ci>Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History\u003C/i> (Columbia, 2024), and (with Orlando Patterson), \u003Ci>The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue\u003C/i> (Polity, 2023), and co-editor of \u003Ci>Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors\u003C/i> (Stanford, 2007). He is currently at work on two book projects—the first is a biography of Stuart Hall; and the second is a reconsideration of question of reparation and revolution through the work of Walter Rodney. David is the founder and editor of the journal \u003Ci>Small Axe\u003C/i> (www.smallaxe.net), the premier journal of the Caribbean and the African diaspora (published three times per year by Duke University Press), now in its twenty-ninth year, and director of the Small Axe Project.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The Otolith Collective \u003C/strong>is an artist-led organisation that supports intergenerational and intragenerational art practices, research-led projects, writing and process-based forms of development. The Otolith Collective creates environments that enable discourse and discussion, co-commission artists and curate exhibitions and programmes with a wide range of collaborators, organisations and institutions.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Working across visual art, new music, film, video, writing and post lens-based media, The Otolith Collective draws audiences to exhibitions and platforms on the work of Black Audio Film Collective, Mark Fisher and Justin Barton, Harun Farocki, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Bahar Noorizadeh, The Chimurenga Library and Chris Marker, to name but a few.\u003C/p>",[],[198],{"title":199,"path":200},"Book Now",{"url":201},"https://tickets.ibraaz.org/events/ibraaz/1951701",[],{"globalSet":204},{"id":205,"handle":206,"activated":145,"heading":207,"richText":208,"text":210},"16767","notification","Visitor Information",{"html":209},"\u003Cp>Please note that our Majlis is currently closed and will reopen with our next exhibition in early July. 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