Edited by Kilian Rager
ENISLING
Ontologies of Confinement
The Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art
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ENISLING
Ontologies of Confinement Edited by Kilian Rager
The Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art
Content Preface............................................................................................................................................................................xviii
I. ONTOLOGIES...........................................................................................................................................................3
Idyllolatry Toward a Phenomenology of Island as Theme Park.................................................................................15
Unbridgeable : The Dialectic of the Gap Perimeter Pride and the Bubble: Re-reading Sloterdijk..........................................................................24
From Pre– to Paralocal Durational Motifs in Rural Sociodynamics...............................................................................................39
Smile or Snarl: The Public Self Letters to the Editor and other Calamities : Pathologies of Confinement..........................................54
Ceci n’est pas un autobus Hegel, Derrida, and the Hermeneutics of Rural Transport.....................................................................72
II. TROPES OF THE RURAL..........................................................................................................97
Enisling the Arts Territoriality and Fetish................................................................................................................................121
Sappho’s Crones Poetics and Poetology of Island Literature ..............................................................................................137
Peekaboo Island Lacan’s Mirror and the Economy of Salutation ......................................................................................152
Yondering The Hierarchy of Views and Glimpses: Ocean Front and Social Status............................................174
III. ENISLED TOPOLOGIES........................................................................................................188
Map or Territory Disembodiment and Abstraction in Rural Governance ........................................................................193
Issues in Post-Post-Colonialism The Rhetoric of Inclusivity in the Absence of the Marginalized Subject............................................221
Best in Class Cultural Capital and the Competitive Paradigm in Island Cultures...................................................237
Labour Conditions in Island Service and Entertainment Industries A 2011 Survey among Cooks, Clowns, and Cleaners............................................................................254
Biggering The De-Democratization of The Public Sphere vis-a-vis The Megaproject........................................269
Sustainable Discourse Affirmation, Dissent, and The Boundaries of Cultural Optimism.......................................................289 Queering the Bully Engaging Masculinity in Ideated Communities......................................................................................308
When The Isle Is In The Seventh House Parallel Epistemologies and Cultural Drift ...............................................................................................336
De-isling Seasonal Dysphoria and Carbon Footprint Management......................................................................361
Index.................................................................................................................................................................................372 Bibliography.....................................................................................................................................................................396
“...Roberto had sensed a world now without any center, made up only of peripheries, here he felt himself truly in the most extreme and most of peripheries; because, if there was a center, it lay before him, and he was its most immobile satellite.� Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
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