Angelaki

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    A Hymn to Tethys.Charlie Blake - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):146-170.
    In “A Hymn to Tethys: Chronofabulation and the Emptiness of Ancient Oceans,” the intimate connections between the human encounter with the sea in its various moods and phases, the experience of the passing of time on a human scale, but also on the geological and cosmic scales of deep time, and our propensity as a species for fictionalizing or fabricating as a way of orienting ourselves through language and imagery in the face of mortality and loss, areas explored through a (...)
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    The Counter-Oceanic Sea.Claire Colebrook - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):26-39.
    When Freud described the “oceanic feeling” of intimated plenitude that haunted the boundaries of consciousness he both intensified a post-enlightenment aesthetics that imagined the beyond of civilization is female, fluid, and undifferentiated and gave modernist poetics a theory of an almost unthinkable serenity beyond the limits of identity. European Romanticism and modernism, for all their differences, operated largely with the assumption that being a subject required abandoning an original maternal plenitude. In The Deep, Rivers Solomon provides a counter-oedipal politics and (...)
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    The Ways of Water.Rick Dolphijn - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):78-91.
    In this geophilosophical exercise where I don’t start from the subject vs. object relation, my aim is to explore the watery worlds within us. Could we write on the waters within and outside of us, beyond phenomenology, and distill a materialist “liquid geometry of life” from the water as it flows? How does this lead to streams, currents, or “ways of water” that unfold into a space that is livable, that gives rise to diverse communities of humanoids (not only blue) (...)
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    Of Amphibolies and Amphibiologies.Garin Dowd - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):92-109.
    Following the lead of Michèle Le Doeuff in generalising the figure of the amphiboly in her reading of Kant’s maritime digressions in the course of his Critical opus, my essay departs from this basis to look both to philosophy and literature (with minor digressions into photography and cinema) in order to examine images of the human species in acts of immersion, traversal and exit from the sea, as well as installation on land (and on the island in particular) in a (...)
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    Petrified Legality, Percolating Sovereignty.Lucy Finchett-Maddock - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):121-145.
    This piece begins with the author’s epiphanic experience with a glacier, Perito Moreno, Southern Patagonia, and follows a journey of fascination for the edifying power and majesty of ice, as not just a metaphorical demonstration of the laws of thermodynamics, but argued as the clearest presentation of the material processes of legality itself. Most lucid when understood as a border phenomenon and a form of edgework within international law, where water meets land, and melting ice reveals the unravelling of sovereignties (...)
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    The Ocean in the Court.Lilian Kroth - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):66-77.
    This paper is concerned with a critique of law that is seagoing: it unpacks notions such as a “seagoing pact,” the metaphor of the “cord” or the idea of “bringing the oceans to the court.” Touching on main questions in the field of the blue humanities, this paper makes a case for Michel Serres’s distinguished contribution through his philosophy of law, in which the sea plays a vital role both on a structural and metaphorical level. At the core of this (...)
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  7. Tidal Thinking and Times of Conflict.Diane Morgan - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):40-65.
    Akin to flotsam washed up by the sea, this article combs through what it calls a “molecular configuration” comprised of bits of Paul Valéry, Jean Grenier, Albert Camus, René Char, Martin Heidegger and Georg Trakl as an exercise in “tidal thinking.” Conflict, mainly in the form of war, makes its presence felt throughout, as does the haunting prospect of the irreversible climate crisis.
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    Marine Materialism.Thomas Nail - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):13-25.
    This paper contributes to the idea of “marine materialism.” Specifically, I argue that the marine drama of the sun moving over the sea sheds light on the human act of knowing as a performative and material process. I do not argue that we should think of the sea as a metaphor, simile, analogy, or metonym for human knowledge. Instead, I want to show that the connection between ontology, epistemology, and the marine drama is a relation of scale. That is, I (...)
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    Marine Lover, Machine Lover, Endocrine Lover.Helen Palmer - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):110-120.
    This paper charts the story of Karst, a sea cave which is exploited by the human sex hormone industry for the secretions that emerge upon its walls, whilst adumbrating some of the ways in which caves have been perceived in the history of philosophy, from Plato to Irigaray to the Xenofeminist Manifesto and beyond. The etymology of the “endocrine” produces some surprising overtones: the Proto-Indo-European root *krei- meaning “to sieve” and thus “discriminate, distinguish,” is hypothetically derived from the Greek krinein (...)
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    The Sea.Helen Palmer & Charlie Blake - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):1-1.
    This special issue of Angelaki sets out to curate a range of literary and philosophical perspectives on how the sea is currently thought, felt and theorized across the theoretical humanities. Drawi...
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    The Sea.Helen Palmer & Charlie Blake - 2025 - Angelaki 30 (1):2-12.
    Tee-ar-r-r! Tee-ar-r-r! rattled the tern1There is nothing more important on this planet than the sea. Nothing, that is, more important for our species at this juncture in our development as a speci...
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