CIN301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Tristes Tropiques, Jorge Furtado
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Ilha das flores / isle of flowers (dir. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind. -claude l vi-strauss, tristes tropiques (1955) Humans are biped animals, mammals, that are distinguished from other mammals, like whales, and from other bipeds like chickens, in two main respects: the highly developed telencephalon [cerebellum] and the opposable thumb. Latitude/longitude is mapped with england as the basis. Dipesh chakrabarty provincializing europe (2000): the politics of historicism and the time of history. Discipline of history is a 19th century european invention based upon a universal concept of time as secular, continuous, empty and homogeneous. Events happen in time but time is not affected by them (73) Historical time does not belong to nature, that is, it is not completely independent of human systems of representation. It stands for a particular formation of the modern subject. (74)
