The Intimacies of Four Continents

The Intimacies of Four Continents

Chapter 1

• How is she using the word “intimacy”? (18)

• Intimacy as a global economy

o How do we relate the intimacies of four continents to liberal freedom?

• Rupturing the intimacies in the archive so we can’t see the connections

• Residual v. emergent structures

• What is liberal freedom in this text?

• Contract

• Marriage and freedom

• “the branches of European political philosophy that include the narration of political emancipation through citizenship in the state, the promise of economic freedom in the development of wage labor and exchange markets, and the conferring of civilization to human persons educated in aesthetic and national culture” (3-4)

• Liberalism as a disciplinary project

• So how does all of this relate to intimacy?

o Intimacies in communities

Chapter 2

• Autobiography as a genre particularly foundational for liberalism

o Prioritizes the “I”

• Her analysis of Equiano recaptures him?

o Reads him as a metonym of a genre – he becomes a metaphor as slavery also becomes a metaphor

Chapter 3

• Colonial uncertainty

• Tea time (82)

Chapter 4

• Freedom as expansion of trade for Britain, different from liberty which is politically related – liberty happens for the oppressed groups

o “liberty promised the amelioration of human culture, society,