Against the Structural Weight of Catastrophe: A Poetics of Negation - Laura al-Tibi & Amr Amer
“To all those we are indebted to” brings together poetry, critical writing, image-making, drawing, and song in a multidisciplinary series that examines the politics of refusal in Palestine. Composed of four contributions assembled through paired collaboration, the contributors explore and develop novel ways of producing knowledge.
Alia Al-Sabi and Amany Khalifa take apart Palestinian ‘return’ through a conversation that unfolds across literary, temporal, and spacial registers. Amr Amer and Laura al-Tibi weave together song and critical analysis, unsettling colonial conceptions of Palestinians’ relation to their land economically and existentially. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme offer a comprehensive hypothesis of the “negative”, unfolding across poetry, images, and illustration. Adam HajYahia and Haitham Haddad formulate an aesthetic theory of revolt, examined through text, images, and illustration. By focusing on the interplay between text and artistic form, “To all those we are indebted to” proposes new methods of thinking and creating, aesthetically and politically.
Published by Bilna’es (NY/PALESTINE), as part of the series To all those we are indebted to.
2024