On the Sublime and Beautiful: Edmund Burke, Ottobah Cugoano, and Reverberations of Eighteenth-Century Racial Aesthetics

IF 1.4 4区计算机科学 Q4 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1353/tae.2022.0041

Tacuma Peters

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Abstract:This article examines Edmund Burke and Ottobah Cugoano's aesthetic thought in relation to eighteenth-century racial slavery. It interrogates their ideas of the sublime and beautiful which contribute to their different political positions on the abolition of slavery: whereas the former advocated the gradual abolition of the slave trade and distant emancipation, the latter sought the immediate abolition of the trade and rapid emancipation. It contends that Burke's discussions of the sublime and beautiful were racialized, his advocacy of white authority on plantation slavery was rooted in his aesthetics, and his evocation of the Black sublime throughout his long career fit well with attempts to ameliorate, reform, and gradually abolish slavery. In contrast, Ottobah Cugoano's discussion of the sublime, the beautiful, and rejection of white authority supported his advocacy for the immediate abolition of the slave trade and rapid emancipation of enslaved peoples. The article also examines the reverberation of the logics of eighteenth-century racial aesthetics in current contexts.

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崇高与美:埃德蒙·伯克、奥托巴·库戈亚诺与十八世纪种族美学的回响

摘要:本文考察了埃德蒙·伯克和奥托巴·库戈亚诺的美学思想与18世纪种族奴隶制的关系。本文探讨了他们对崇高和美好的观念，这些观念导致了他们在废除奴隶制问题上的不同政治立场:前者主张逐步废除奴隶贸易和遥远的解放，后者则主张立即废除奴隶贸易和迅速的解放。文章认为，伯克对崇高和美丽的讨论被种族化了，他对白人在种植园奴隶制问题上的权威的倡导根植于他的美学，他在漫长的职业生涯中对黑人崇高的唤起与他试图改善、改革和逐步废除奴隶制的努力非常吻合。相比之下，奥托巴·库戈诺对崇高、美丽的讨论，以及对白人权威的拒绝，支持了他对立即废除奴隶贸易和迅速解放被奴役人民的主张。文章还考察了18世纪种族美学逻辑在当前语境中的回响。

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Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications 数学-应用数学

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3.90

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5.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.