Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence

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institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
topic BD Speculative Philosophy
BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
D204 Modern History
DS Asia
G Geography (General)
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
GN Anthropology
JC Political theory
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PK Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
description Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique narration of the wars, this project is a cosmopolitical one. In dialog with other essays in this issue that point to the life of the immaterial in present-day traditions, I show how Kārwān’s bottom-up psycho-history draws on Persianate-classical, Pashto-popular, and embodied knowledges to critique both imperial and Islamist modernity on ontological grounds. It aims to undermine the borders of self and other that geopolitical violence embeds everywhere: barriers between human and other beings, humans and other humans, imagination and material.
format Journal Article
author Caron, James
author_facet Caron, James
authorStr Caron, James
author_letter Caron, James
title Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2024
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/43024/

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