The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche
This essay considers the collaborative projects of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and French poet René Char as thematizing an imbrication between two different ends of the world: the end of the colonial world through decolonization and the end of terrestrial life in nuclear war. This connection, I argue,...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:coma_8294 https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8294 urn:doi:10.4000/coma.8294 en https://journals.openedition.org/coma/8294 2022-04-21T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e6uq https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche Continents manuscrits Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2275-1742 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/coma Frost, Jackqueline Wifredo Lam décolonisation livre d’artiste René Char lutte anti-nucléaire guerre froide Terre apocalypse écologie decolonization Wifredo Lam René Char anti-nuclear Cold War ecology earth habitation apocalypse artist book This essay considers the collaborative projects of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and French poet René Char as thematizing an imbrication between two different ends of the world: the end of the colonial world through decolonization and the end of terrestrial life in nuclear war. This connection, I argue, is pursued by Lam and Char through a set of socio-ecological commitments in which the relation between humanity and the earth heralds an apocalyptic vision of planetary crisis. I proceed to my argument by reconstructing Char and Lam’s investments in a political aesthetics of inter-species and earthly habitation, beginning in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, the threat of nuclear destruction transforms the meaning of the earth, especially in Char’s poetics. At the center of my analysis is their collaborative book, Contre une maison sèche, which I read in continuity with late 1960s anti-nuclear struggles. Finally, I suggest that we think formal decolonization and anti-nuclear ecology together as a point of historical reference for the current ecological crisis. What I call “the rumor of the Earth,” after Lam’s 1950 painting, names the possible but as-yet undiscovered forms of inhabiting the Earth and of making new relations at all levels of the general ecology. Cette étude sur les projets collaboratifs de l’artiste cubain Wifredo Lam et du poète français René Char thématise l’imbrication de deux pôles : la fin du monde colonial par la décolonisation et la fin de la vie terrestre par la guerre nucléaire. Cette imbrication, je soutiens, est poursuivie par Lam et Char à travers un ensemble d’engagements socio-écologiques dans lesquels la relation entre l’humanité et la Terre annonce une vision apocalyptique de la crise planétaire. Je poursuis mon propos en reconstruisant les investissements de Char et de Lam dans une esthétique politique de l’inter-espèce et de l’habitat terrestre, à partir des années 1950. Au milieu des années 1960, la menace de destruction nucléaire transforme la signification de la vie sur terre, notamment dans la poétique de Char. Au centre de mon analyse se trouve leur livre collaboratif, Contre une maison sèche, que je lis dans la continuité des luttes antinucléaires à la fin des années 1960. Enfin, je propose de penser ensemble la décolonisation formelle et l’écologie anti-nucléaire comme point de référence historique de la crise écologique actuelle. Ce que j’appelle « la rumeur de la Terre », d’après le tableau de Lam de 1950, nomme les formes possibles mais encore inconnues d’habiter la Terre et d’établir de nouvelles relations à tous les niveaux de l’écologie générale. |
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This essay considers the collaborative projects of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and French poet René Char as thematizing an imbrication between two different ends of the world: the end of the colonial world through decolonization and the end of terrestrial life in nuclear war. This connection, I argue, is pursued by Lam and Char through a set of socio-ecological commitments in which the relation between humanity and the earth heralds an apocalyptic vision of planetary crisis. I proceed to my argument by reconstructing Char and Lam’s investments in a political aesthetics of inter-species and earthly habitation, beginning in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, the threat of nuclear destruction transforms the meaning of the earth, especially in Char’s poetics. At the center of my analysis is their collaborative book, Contre une maison sèche, which I read in continuity with late 1960s anti-nuclear struggles. Finally, I suggest that we think formal decolonization and anti-nuclear ecology together as a point of historical reference for the current ecological crisis. What I call “the rumor of the Earth,” after Lam’s 1950 painting, names the possible but as-yet undiscovered forms of inhabiting the Earth and of making new relations at all levels of the general ecology. |
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Frost, Jackqueline |
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Frost, Jackqueline |
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The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche |
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The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche |
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The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche |
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The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche |
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