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Thinking/Weaving: Another Approach to Cosmopolitanism

This essay is the most recent of several commissions for international biennales (previous contributions include Venice and Johannesburg, 1997, Documenta11, 2002, and Sharjah, 2005), all of which relate to my engagement with art and post/colonial studies. The essay is an extension of ‘Neither North Nor South’, a critique of the exclusion of indigenous cultures (albeit their biocolonial exploitation) from debates on climate change, exploitation of natural resources and loss of biodiversity created by the catastrophic effects of neoliberal globalisation and industrial agriculture [in Sur, Sur, Sur, Sur..., Proceedings, VII SITAC International Symposium, Mexico City:PAC, 2010: ISBN 978-607-95256-1-3.] Sections of both these essays were recombined in ‘Thinking Otherwise’, an essay commissioned by Ja Natuurlijk/Yes Naturally, an exhibition and book exploring the relation of art to ecology [Rotterdam, 2013, ISBN 978-94-6208-063-8 – English and Dutch editions.] In this version I added a new section discussing the relation between the dispossession of colonised indigenous peoples and the historical and ongoing expropriation of land, the commons and collective liberties in the UK and Palestine.