Squaring the Circle: The Violence of Environmental Form in the Colonial Caribbean
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DOI: 10.1215/07990537-12022316
Abstract: Abstract:This essay is grounded in the unsolved early modern mathematical problem of “squaring the circle” to explore geometrical form as a force that undergirded colonial violence in the Caribbean. In the mid-eighteenth century, rectilinearity and… read more here.
Keywords: caribbean; squaring circle; violence; circle violence ... See more keywords