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Centralising the theme of scientific coloniality in this new reading of Das Buch Franza and the Wuestenbuch by Ingeborg Bachmann and using ideas from decolonial, Indigenous and critical ethnic studies, I argue that we can read the texts as a critique of the libidinal economy of White Archaeology. Reading the many metonyms and webs of associations through Nietzsche's critique of Wissenslust and through heterodox antiracist materialisms, I explore the ways in which the artwork illuminates the colonial roots of western epistemologies. The argument focuses on the particular species of theft that is colonial dispossession by analysing the transformation into property as acts of making and taking. The second half of the article explores the role of Wadi Halfa, the flooding of Nubia and the Aswan High Dam and stresses the artwork's role as foregrounding avenues for resistance - here in subterranean images of Nubian alluvial agency.
Author(s): Ludden TC
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Austrian Studies
Year: 2024
Volume: 32
Pages: 41-63
Online publication date: 17/03/2024
Acceptance date: 23/09/2024
Date deposited: 04/10/2024
ISSN (print): 1350-7532
ISSN (electronic): 2222-4262
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.00004
DOI: 10.1353/aus.00004
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/5cqc-9a62
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