Skip to main content

Gramsci at Sea: Notes

Gramsci at Sea
Notes
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeGramsci at Sea
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

Show the following:

  • Annotations
  • Resources
Search within:

Adjust appearance:

  • font
    Font style
  • color scheme
  • Margins
table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface and Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Gramsci and the Sea
  10. 2. The Oceanic Question
  11. 3. Just One Last Watery Ghost-Dance?
  12. 4. The Storm
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. About the Author

Notes

Preface and Acknowledgments

  1. Adavamudan, “Catachronism,” 8–9.

    Return to note reference.

  2. For a study of political hope in the remains of apartheid, Chari, Apartheid Remains.

    Return to note reference.

1. Gramsci and the Sea

  1. Fiori, Antonio Gramsci, 70.

    Return to note reference.

  2. Hoare and Nowell Smith, in Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, xix.

    Return to note reference.

  3. Said, “On Critical Consciousness,” 24.

    Return to note reference.

  4. Said, World, 170–71.

    Return to note reference.

  5. See DeLoughrey and Flores, “Submerged Bodies,” for thoughtful elaboration on tidalectics as “submarine immersion and oceanic intimacy . . . constituted by an entangled ontology of diffraction” (138); Stephanie Hessler calls it “an oceanic worldview” and points to Brathwaite’s discomfort with “dialectics” as a Western imposition. Thanks to Michael Cavuto for pushing me on this point; my response is that the gesture “not-West” is also a certain kind of dialectical gesture, that there are many approaches to dialectics, of which Gramsci’s is heuristic and earthly, and that it is perhaps legible through Brathwaite’s concerns with “riddims,” flux, anger, myth, and hope.

    Return to note reference.

  6. Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading, 18; Rediker, “History from below the Water Line.”

    Return to note reference.

  7. Gramsci, Selections from Political Writings, 202; Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci Reader, 134.

    Return to note reference.

  8. Gramsci, Letters from Prison, 62.

    Return to note reference.

  9. Gramsci, 67.

    Return to note reference.

  10. Gramsci, 83.

    Return to note reference.

  11. Q2, §12. Unless otherwise noted, all such references are to Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, and will be done in main text, with Q designating the original notebook number (for Q in the original title Quaderni del carcere), and § the note number within it. The International Gramsci Society’s Concordance Tables help locate notes in English translation across anthologies; see internationalgramscisociety.org/resources/concordance_table/anthologies.html.

    Return to note reference.

  12. Laleh Khalili, Sinews.

    Return to note reference.

  13. Thanks to Matt Shutzer for this.

    Return to note reference.

  14. Marx, “Preface.”

    Return to note reference.

  15. See Karatani and Wainwright, “Critique.”

    Return to note reference.

  16. Hall, “David Scott.”

    Return to note reference.

  17. Q11, §50, cited in Morton, “Traveling with Gramsci,” 48.

    Return to note reference.

  18. Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 177.

    Return to note reference.

  19. Gramsci, 178.

    Return to note reference.

  20. Gramsci, 185

    Return to note reference.

  21. Braudel, The Mediterranean.

    Return to note reference.

  22. Thanks, again, to Matt Shutzer.

    Return to note reference.

  23. Thomas, “Gramsci’s Revolutions,” 123.

    Return to note reference.

  24. Thomas, 124.

    Return to note reference.

  25. See Morton, “Traveling with Gramsci,” 55.

    Return to note reference.

  26. Fanon, Wretched of the Earth; Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World; Hall, Hard Road; Hart, Rethinking the South African Crisis.

    Return to note reference.

  27. Khanna, Dark Continents, 90–93.

    Return to note reference.

  28. Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading, 37.

    Return to note reference.

  29. Corbin, Lure of the Sea.

    Return to note reference.

  30. Thanks to Jake Orbison for this insight.

    Return to note reference.

  31. Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 185.

    Return to note reference.

  32. Gramsci, Letters from Prison, 247.

    Return to note reference.

2. The Oceanic Question

  1. Kathryn Miller. Kirsten Thompson, Paul Johnston, and David Santillo, et al., “An Overview of Seabed Mining of Seabed Mining Including the Current State of Development, Environmental Impacts, and Knowledge Gaps,” Frontiers in Science, January 10, 2018, frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full; Greenpeace, In Deep Water; Hannah Moore with Jonathan Watts, “The Race to Mine the Deep Sea,” March 27, 2022, in Seascape: The State of Our Oceans, produced by Courtney Yusuf and Rudi Zygadlo, podcast, MP3 audio, 32:12, theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/mar/28/the-race-to-mine-the-deep-sea-today-in-focus-podcast.

    Return to note reference.

  2. Davidson, “Gramsci and Lenin.”

    Return to note reference.

  3. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea, 2.

    Return to note reference.

  4. Campling and Colás, 3.

    Return to note reference.

  5. Campling and Colás, 12.

    Return to note reference.

  6. Campling and Colás, 13–14; Khalili, Sinews.

    Return to note reference.

  7. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea, 68–69.

    Return to note reference.

  8. Campling and Colás, 109.

    Return to note reference.

  9. Balachandran, Globalizing Labour?

    Return to note reference.

  10. Rediker, Slave Ship.

    Return to note reference.

  11. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea, 181, 185

    Return to note reference.

  12. Campling and Colás, 187–201.

    Return to note reference.

  13. Vine, Island of Shame.

    Return to note reference.

  14. Rodenbiker, “Urban Oceans.”

    Return to note reference.

  15. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea, 204–5.

    Return to note reference.

  16. Campling and Colás, 208.

    Return to note reference.

  17. Gudynas, Extractivisms, 60.

    Return to note reference.

  18. Gudynas, 88.

    Return to note reference.

  19. Shutzer, Review of Extractive Zone by Macarena Gómez-Barris, 741–42; Chagnon et al., “From Extractivism to Global Extractivism,” 13–14.

    Return to note reference.

  20. Watts, “Hyper-Extractivism,” 209.

    Return to note reference.

  21. Labban, “Deterritorializing Extraction,” 561, 572.

    Return to note reference.

  22. Labban, “Mine/ Machine,” 151.

    Return to note reference.

  23. Gago and Mezzadra, “Critique of Extractive Operations,” 589.

    Return to note reference.

  24. Mezzadra and Neilson, “On the Multiple Frontiers,” 193–97.

    Return to note reference.

  25. Watts, “Hyper-Extractivism,” 213, 215.

    Return to note reference.

  26. Watts, 230.

    Return to note reference.

  27. Shutzer, “Extractive Ecologies.”

    Return to note reference.

  28. Shutzer, “Subterranean Properties,” 403.

    Return to note reference.

  29. Shutzer, 415.

    Return to note reference.

  30. Shutzer, 429–30.

    Return to note reference.

  31. Capps, “Custom and exploitation.”

    Return to note reference.

  32. Capps, “Tribal-Landed Property,” 470–74.

    Return to note reference.

  33. Many thanks to Philippe LeBillon, drawing on his long-term insights on “ocean defenders.”

    Return to note reference.

  34. See Helmreich, “Blue-green Capital,” although I cannot do it justice here.

    Return to note reference.

  35. Carver, “Resource Sovereignty and Accumulation.”

    Return to note reference.

  36. Carver, 384–85.

    Return to note reference.

3. Just One Last Watery Ghost-Dance?

  1. Fernando Coronil, Magical State, 21.

    Return to note reference.

  2. Marx, Capital Volume III, ch. 48, sec.1. “Ghost-walking” here can also be translated “ghost-dance.”

    Return to note reference.

  3. Derrida, Specters of Marx, 57–58.

    Return to note reference.

  4. Marx, Capital Volume III, ch. 37.

    Return to note reference.

  5. Yutuka Nagahara, “Monsieur le Capital and Madame la Terre,” 947.

    Return to note reference.

  6. Coronil, Magical State, 57.

    Return to note reference.

  7. Coronil, “Beyond Occidentalism.”

    Return to note reference.

  8. Coronil, 61. See also Capps, “Custom and Exploitation,” 974.

    Return to note reference.

  9. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea,10–11.

    Return to note reference.

  10. Campling and Colás, 73–74.

    Return to note reference.

  11. Lauren Benton, cited in Campling and Colás, 78.

    Return to note reference.

  12. Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, 2, 26, 112, 114.

    Return to note reference.

  13. Drayton, “Maritime Networks,” 74.

    Return to note reference.

  14. Drayton, 74–75.

    Return to note reference.

  15. Wick, Red Sea.

    Return to note reference.

  16. Rediker, “History from below the Water Line,” 292–94.

    Return to note reference.

  17. Samuelson, “Thinking with Sharks.”

    Return to note reference.

  18. Thanks to Alejo Garcia Aguilera for this formulation.

    Return to note reference.

  19. Gaynor, Intertidal History.

    Return to note reference.

  20. Chari, Apartheid Remains.

    Return to note reference.

  21. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea, 80–83

    Return to note reference.

  22. This section draws from Chari, “‘Sinews’ in Sinews.”

    Return to note reference.

  23. Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

    Return to note reference.

  24. Ogle, “Archipelago Capitalism.”

    Return to note reference.

  25. Chua, Danyluk, Cowen, and Khalili, “Introduction.”

    Return to note reference.

  26. Black, Global Interior, 52.

    Return to note reference.

  27. Black, 148–50; see also Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature.

    Return to note reference.

  28. Campling and Colás, Capitalism and the Sea, 208, citing Capps, “Bourgeois Reform,” 318.

    Return to note reference.

  29. Vine, Base Nation.

    Return to note reference.

  30. Romero, Economic Poisoning.

    Return to note reference.

  31. Hamblin, Poison in the Well, 2, 260.

    Return to note reference.

  32. Niemanis, “Held in Suspension,” 46–49.

    Return to note reference.

4. The Storm

  1. Resident Advisor, “Why Drexciya Took Detroit Electro Underwater,” October 16, 2018, video, 9:29, ra.co/features/3326.

    Return to note reference.

  2. McKittrick, Dear Science, 53–54.

    Return to note reference.

  3. James Stinson, 2002 phone interview with Derek Beere, youtu.be/yPZYisZJofo.

    Return to note reference.

  4. See Notebook 22 in Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks.

    Return to note reference.

  5. Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis.

    Return to note reference.

  6. Judy, “Gramsci on la questione dei negri.”

    Return to note reference.

  7. Wilderson, “Gramsci’s Black Marx,” 225. Wilderson carries this refusal through the text; it shapes what he can and cannot read. I cannot do justice to this real disagreement here.

    Return to note reference.

  8. Gramsci, letter to Tatiana of January 13, 1931, in Letters from Prison, Vol II; letter to Tatiana of February 27, 1928, in Letters from Prison, 128.

    Return to note reference.

  9. Okiji, Jazz as Critique, 24–25 (citing Moten In the Break, 179).

    Return to note reference.

  10. Moten and Harney, Undercommons; Shakur, Assata, 241–43.

    Return to note reference.

  11. Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 8.

    Return to note reference.

  12. McKittrick, Dear Science, 56.

    Return to note reference.

  13. McKittrick, 56 (citing Andrew Gaerig, “Drexciya,” and Drexciya’s album Harnessed the Storm, youtu.be/SaU1Nh4MkSU).

    Return to note reference.

  14. McKittrick, 56.

    Return to note reference.

  15. Gallagher’s exhibition can be viewed at hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/6185-ellen-gallagher-accidental-records/#films (including a video, 7:38); see also Gallagher, “Characters, Myths and Stories,” interview, 2005 (originally published on PBS.org; republished by art21.org, November 2011), art21.org/read/ellen-gallagher-characters-myths-and-stories/.

    Return to note reference.

  16. McKittrick, Dear Science, 53. See also the curator Ekow Eshun on her work for the collective exhibition “In the Black Fantastic,” Hayward Gallery, London, 2022, video, 7:14 (discussion of Gallagher beginning at 2:45), youtu.be/a_L7tPG_pks.

    Return to note reference.

  17. Carolina Miranda, “Painter Ellen Gallagher’s Tragic Sea Tales,” Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2017, latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-ellen-gallagher-hauser-wirth-20171117-htmlstory.html.

    Return to note reference.

  18. Miranda, “Painter Ellen Gallagher’s Tragic Sea Tales;” thanks to Charne Lavery for making me think about Pip.

    Return to note reference.

  19. Presented in the exhibit The Tale, at the Gagsonian Gallery in London, September 8–24, 2017, gagosian.com/news/museum-exhibitions/ellen-gallagher-in-the-tale/.

    Return to note reference.

  20. See Philip Hoare, “I’ll dream fast asleep,” in Ellen Gallagher, Accidental Records.

    Return to note reference.

  21. Jue, Wild Blue Media.

    Return to note reference.

  22. John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, presented again at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, February 10 through April 18, 2021, macm.org/en/exhibitions/john-akomfrah-vertigo-sea/.

    Return to note reference.

  23. Demos, Beyond the World’s End, 30.

    Return to note reference.

  24. Benjamin, see Baucom, Spectres of the Atlantic and History 4°C.

    Return to note reference.

  25. Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, 111.

    Return to note reference.

  26. Rediker, 110.

    Return to note reference.

  27. Grandin, Empire of Necessity; Philippe LeBillon, personal communication, Janurary 17, 2023.

    Return to note reference.

  28. Balachandran, Globalizing Labour, 245.

    Return to note reference.

  29. Chari, Apartheid Remains, ch. 6.

    Return to note reference.

  30. Thanks to the Critical Times editorial team for discussions toward a special issue on “strikes,” read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/issue/5/3.

    Return to note reference.

  31. Chari, “Interlocking Transactions.”

    Return to note reference.

  32. See Alberto Toscano, “Abolition Philosophy,” video, 1:17:25, youtu.be/NYDKHG7OmrE; Toscano, “The World is Already without us.”

    Return to note reference.

  33. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America.

    Return to note reference.

  34. Manjapra, Black Ghost of Empire, 5.

    Return to note reference.

  35. Manjapra, 107.

    Return to note reference.

  36. Lake and Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line.

    Return to note reference.

  37. Nightingale, Segregation.

    Return to note reference.

  38. Scott, Common Wind.

    Return to note reference.

  39. Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.

    Return to note reference.

  40. Gilroy, The Black Atlantic.

    Return to note reference.

  41. Denning, Noise Uprising, 38, 137.

    Return to note reference.

  42. Esmeir, “On Becoming Less of the World,” 88.

    Return to note reference.

  43. Esmeir, 95.

    Return to note reference.

  44. Esmeir, 89.

    Return to note reference.

  45. Esmeir, “Bandung,” 82.

    Return to note reference.

  46. Esmeir, 85.

    Return to note reference.

  47. Ram Prakash Anand, cited in Esmeir, “Bandung,” 86.

    Return to note reference.

  48. Ranganathan, “Decolonization and International Law,” 170–73.

    Return to note reference.

  49. Esmeir, “Bandung,” 87–88.

    Return to note reference.

  50. Esmeir, 89.

    Return to note reference.

  51. Ranganathan, “Ocean Floor Grab,” 588.

    Return to note reference.

  52. Ranganathan, 590.

    Return to note reference.

  53. Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal, 1–2.

    Return to note reference.

  54. Amrith, 5.

    Return to note reference.

  55. Amrith, 4–5.

    Return to note reference.

  56. Amrith, 10, 30.

    Return to note reference.

  57. Amrith, 260.

    Return to note reference.

  58. Amrith, 89.

    Return to note reference.

  59. Esmeir, “Bandung,” 93.

    Return to note reference.

  60. Thanks to Samera Esmeir for this insight.

    Return to note reference.

  61. Dawson, Extinction, 83.

    Return to note reference.

Annotate

Next Chapter
Bibliography
PreviousNext
Gramsci at Sea by Sharad Chari is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org