On Fire: Notes on the Spread of a Non-deterministic Schema

Yaniya Lee and Rosa Aiello’s contribution works with the material qualities of fire, with its historical significance, and, most significantly, with its respatizializing potential. In the path blazed by Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick’s demonic geographies, Lee and Aiello write fire as a chal...

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Published in:Public (Toronto) 2018-12, Vol.29 (58), p.169-177
Main Authors: Lee, Yaniya, Aiello, Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Yaniya Lee and Rosa Aiello’s contribution works with the material qualities of fire, with its historical significance, and, most significantly, with its respatizializing potential. In the path blazed by Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick’s demonic geographies, Lee and Aiello write fire as a challenge to Man’s ‘ “cartographic impulse”––the inclination to map, to rationalize, to appropriate, to own, and thereby to control space.’ Their piece experiments with the possibility of spread as literary form: ideas leap from one numbered-section to the next through words and logics, their scope engulfs myriad sources, their thought refuses to be contained.
ISSN:0845-4450
2048-6928
DOI:10.1386/public.29.58.169_7