Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 65.
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        Date: 2024-07-03 07:20:40+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: beyond borders?

In his review of the Tate Modern exhibition "Surrealism Beyond Borders"
(2022), Michael Richardson zeroes in on the genius of it by contrasting
the aims of the organisers with the mundane, enculturated sense that
'surreal' has taken on. What they did, he writes, was to focus on
"Surrealism not as something temporally or geographically limited, but
as a movement that went 'beyond borders', engaging people in multiple
contexts over both time and space." Surrealism, he notes, "was founded
in revulsion against the nationalism that had inspired the First World
War." (The Burlington Magazine 164.1431 [2022], 592-594)

At that, I think of the particularly virulent nationalism we enjoy
today, along with the reduction of the marvellous--a reduction the
Surrealists also rebelled against--to the mundane. There are many other
blanks you can fill in, I'm sure. But this being Humanist, I rush to my
question: where does one find a digital humanities that goes "'beyond
borders', engaging people in multiple contexts over both time and
space"? Where does one find genuinely interdisciplinary studies that do
this without traducing the disciplines into which they venture? I'd have
us all note that 'beyond borders' does not entail the intention to knock
them down or otherwise disrespect them.

Comments and references most welcome.

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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