Category: Archipelagic Studies

Aquapelagic Studies, Archipelagic Studies, Island Studies

Detourning liquidity

(excerpt from a forthcoming publication on island studies) The game-theoretic approach discussed in the previous sections as a strategy of diffracting power from the peripheries and margins of social order is not independent of the overarching system that conditions its practice within a conquered space. In game theory, however, the system that makes these determinations … Continue reading Detourning liquidity

Aquapelagic Studies, Archipelagic Studies, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Island Studies, Philip R. Hayward, Philippine Studies, Rhizomatics, Southeast Asia Studies

Mapping A People to Come

Between a desert island as a mythical concept of origin (Deleuze, 2004) and what Deleuze described (later, with Guattari) as a fluent space of composition, independent of “any determined path” (1987: 371), comes a concept of a people that literature alone commands a power to invoke; a people producing itself as force producing new lines … Continue reading Mapping A People to Come