the Nomadian
global perspectives in comparative literature, visual arts, music & history of ideas
academic, creative & personal website by Prof. Ewa A. Łukaszyk
in the Garden of Aesthetic Abundance
This website has been created not simply to showcase my work, but also to express and propagate my vital philosophy of Aesthetic Abundance. The aspiration of Aesthetic Abundance is something more encompassing than any academic or research strategy; it is a way of living in the World, and living fully, under the regime of radical aesthetic pluralism, in the post-lapsarian Garden of human cultures, the only paradise that remains. Aesthetic Abundance is available to all people, even those living in material scarcity. It is the choice, under the condition of globalisation, to consume the best and to search, and search relentlessly, for the best among cultures. It is the vital philosophy of experiencing and savouring radical pluralism as a call for contradiction and coexistence.
The Nomadian lives her abundant intellectual life on the road and of the road, in the regime of work-in-progress, impermanence and improvement. It is a realm of immaterial conquest, non-hegemonic appropriation, absolute, universal, yet refined voracity. The Nomadian steps lightly, although unstoppably, and gathers without destruction.
currently working on
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TOTALITY AND TRANSCOLONIALITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WORLD IN PORTUGUESE CULTURE (a book project supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) Listen to podcast |
The extracultural becoming: Min Tanaka’s symbiotic/synthanatic dissolution Intimacy technology and the modern quest for artificial love: revisiting Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Ève future |
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The Female Physiology in the Novels of Fausto Duarte: Otherness and Resistance |
The quest for relevance. Delocalizing Portuguese patriarchate in Teolinda Gersão’s gynocentric writing |
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The idea of democracy in Guinea-Bissau: from decolonial poetry to the transcolonial reinvention of identity |
Beyond the frame. Queering war photography in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |
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Numa encruzilhada de oralidades-literacias: para uma visão plural da emergência da literatura guineense |
Delectation and labour. Tropical environments and lifestyles in colonial Portuguese travel memoirs on Timor |
recently published
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Quest for Afrotopia in Late Postcolonial Lusophone Literature: A focus on Guinea-Bissau. In: Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives |
ongoing developments
featured travels
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