Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismRomance the Planet!Romanticism should go global. In two senses. Paul Gilroy shows us how to break with territory as the condition of cultural inquiry. [1] We should look at the ways Britain--the territorial Imperium--is an effect, not cause, of global capital flows. The current work of Jeffrey Cox will go a long way in this direction. [2] It investigates the global reach of Romanticism as not simply a cultural but more broadly political practice. The other move to make is more contemporary. Romanticism today should address the global context of knowledge production. [3] We are becoming planetary. Notes1. The great lesson of Gilroy's The Black Atlantic (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995). 2. A rumor, but a a promise too. The future is full of hope. 3. See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000). Navigation |