Archipelago distils fifteen years of conversation between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist into a compact, carefully arranged volume that serves as the most accessible entry point yet into Glissant's thinking on interdependence and relation.
About This Book
Isolarii — reviving a Renaissance genre of island-focused texts — publishes each edition as a small, self-contained enquiry into a single idea. Its sixth edition gathers the full breadth of dialogue between Glissant and Obrist, reworked and arranged by Obrist during the pandemic year of 2021, a decade after Glissant's death. The book is built around Glissant's concept of the archipelago as a model for thinking about cultural difference, creolisation, and an interconnected world — ideas that remain pressing for anyone concerned with how people, places, and disciplines relate to one another. Translated by Emma Ramadan, it is designed to bring Glissant's philosophy to a broad public audience without diluting its intellectual force.
Key Features
- 215 pages of curated dialogues between Glissant and Obrist, edited and arranged by Obrist for the first time in their entirety
- Edited by Sebastian Clark and India Ennenga; translated by Emma Ramadan
- Published by ISOLARII, 2021
What You'll Discover
- Glissant's philosophy of the archipelago as a framework for understanding cultural multiplicity and interdependence — distinct from continental, singular thinking
- The intellectual exchange between two figures who shaped each other's practice: how Obrist's encounter with Glissant in the mid-nineties redirected the course of his curatorial work
- The concept of creolisation as a generative, ongoing process rather than a fixed identity — with implications for how we think about place, culture, and belonging
- A model for conversation as a form of intellectual production, with Obrist's editorial hand shaping fifteen years of dialogue into a coherent, navigable whole
About the Author
Édouard Glissant was a Martinique-born philosopher, poet, and revolutionary whose work on creolisation, relation, and Caribbean identity made him one of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Hans Ulrich Obrist is one of today's most prolific producers of culture, whose encounter with Glissant in the mid-nineties shaped the direction of his practice for years to come.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 215
- Dimensions: 7 x 10.8 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781735075068
- Publisher: ISOLARII
- Publication Date: 2021
Perfect For: Architects, designers, and cultural practitioners interested in postcolonial philosophy, creolisation, and frameworks for thinking about place, relation, and an interdependent world.