THE NOMADIAN

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

Images of totality and the global inscription of Portuguese culture: a transcolonial perspective
(A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION)

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Na sombra do omi matchu. A nova literatura feminina da Guiné-Bissau

Intimacy technology and the modern quest for artificial love: revisiting Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Ève future

The idea of democracy in Guinea-Bissau: from decolonial poetry to transcolonial reinvention of identity

Numa encruzilhada de oralidades-literacias: para uma visão plural da emergência da literatura guineense

Colonial palimpsests of West Africa: Fausto Duarte and the Fulbe

Beyond the frame. Queering war photography in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The quest for relevance. Delocalizing Portuguese patriarchate in Teolinda Gersão’s gynocentric writing

Delectation and labour. Tropical environments and lifestyles in colonial Portuguese travel memoirs on Timor

recently published

Cultured readings. Transcoloniality and aesthetic judgement in global literary criticism

Frames of hunting. Grievable animal life in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Quest for Afrotopia in Late Postcolonial Lusophone Literature: A focus on Guinea-Bissau. In: Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives

The anatomy of failure. Transcolonial approaches to (not quite) decolonial past from Filinto de Barros’ Kikia Matcho to Tony Tcheka’s Quando os cravos vermelhos cruzaram o Geba