Planetary humanism

Appiah

Nussbaum

Gilroy

Elite cosmopolitanisms cosmopolitanism qualified cosmopolitanism e.g. Adrienne Rich, repetitive first person recounting different tragedies in different times/ places

"an elusive mindset...allied to nonracial, transblack histories"

his work in practice has remained primarily concerned with transnational black solidarity model for transnational, cross-racial solidarity undermining racial ideologies

universality

zizek

Vernacular/ marginal cosmopolitanism

cosmopolitanism that stops short of the transcendent human universal and provides ethical entitlement to sense of community

possibility of commitment to specificity of (traumatic) event and "linked to a transhistorical memory and solidarity"

Bhabha

conscious of the insufficiency of the self and the imperative of openness to the needs of others

vernacular cosmopolitans are "heirs of Walter Benjamin's view of modernity, that every act of civilization is also an act of barbarism"

"The 'I' that speaksits place of enunciation-is iteratively and interrogatively staged. It is poised at the point at which, in recounting historical trauma, the incommensurable 'localities' of experience and memory bear witness, side by side, but there is no easy ethical analogy or historical parallelism"

Rich's poem becomes the "atlas of a difficult world" [note spatiality] - articulated in series of traumatic juxtapositions

postcolonial citizenship attention to local enable identification w/ form of postcolonial citizenship w/ transnational dimension; local activism allows solidarity w/ oppressed people around the globe citizenship forms of citizenship beyond nation, e.g. cosmopolitan and diasporic citizenship black radical thought

every universality i hegemonized or particularized but there is a sort of universality that can be redeeming: it is the university of those who are 'below us' - the neglected and outcast - it is a negative universality to be opposed to western universalism Zizek andDaly 2004, 160

Malini Johar Schueller

finds in the victims of progress the best promise for ethical regeneration Vernac. cosmop. as more than in dialogic relation with native or domestic, it is to be 'on the border, in between, introducing the globalcosmopolitan 'action at a distance' intot he very grouds - now displaced of the domestic' {??unheimlech ?] juxtaposition/ compartivism Sangeeta Ray Gayatri Spival culture Poco always compartive patterns of domination/ oppression across geographies worlding of Third World

equivalent to Kristeva's "cosmopolitanism of those who have been flayed"

"the affective solidarities forged between racial minorities in the United States and people who have overthrown political, if not economic and cultural, domination"

race

the global never really connected to poco

failure of poco to adequately deal - largely b.c of the local nature of race [i think i have written of this somewhere[ necessarily transnational (african diaspora model)

postcolonial studies notably absent globally gramed dialogues and exchanges studies of the global overshadowed by globalization

tendency towards interrogating nation-state/ posing nationally specific critiques

Shares w/ poco: desire to interrogage imperial power structures and relationship to race

literature in disciplinary formations literary criticism as a practice can be complicit in this worlding

therefore raising the question: can the ethical act of reading unworld the world?