Grove Books Research Articles

Truth is a “bird of prey”: interpreting the postcolonial dialectic in Agustí Villaronga’s El ventre del mar (2021) with Frantz Fanon

ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that Agustí Villaronga’s 2021 film El ventre del mar (The Belly of the Sea) explores a post-Fanonian version of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic as a historical struggle between colonizer and colonized, and between the elite and the dispossessed in a limit situation. Villaronga’s cinematic vision of this historical struggle is neither progressive-linear nor simply non-linear, but iterative, as it casts light on uncanny analogies between necropolitical strategies (Mbembe 2019) marking different periods and political regimes: from the absolutist and colonial nineteenth-century France to the democratic European Union of the twenty-first century. To this end, Villaronga interweaves three hermeneutic layers into his filmic fable: the memory of a nineteenth-century historical event as mediated through pictorial and literary representations, a critique of the present marked by refugee crises and postcolonialism and an exploration of the human condition in its agonistic-tragic dimension. In Villaronga’s cinematic vision, the agon between master and slave ends neither in reciprocal recognition (as theorized by Hegel) nor in the emergence of the “new humanity” overcoming the Manichaean, “compartmentalized world” of colonialism (Fanon [1961] 2005. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Books), but in an open dialectic of resistance and radical uncertainty.

The Complexity of Authenticity in Religious Innovation: “Alternative Worship” and Its Appropriation as “Fresh Expressions”

The Complexity of Authenticity in Religious Innovation: “Alternative Worship” and Its Appropriation as “Fresh Expressions”

Whither Fanon?

Whither Fanon?

Predict the Future Better

Our minds are at the same time in the past, present and future. Our experience, personality and values, formed in the past, are the lens through which we view the challenges of the present, and our expectation of the future colors our emotions and motivation. We feel hopeful when we look forward to a positive future, fearful when we expect danger, and anxious when we are unsure and worried about the future. In turbulent times, like the present, we look to leaders with foresight, able to anticipate the future and act to make us hopeful. This is a major challenge for CEOs, and they need all the help they can get from research/ technology managers. Because they would like to believe in a positive future, leaders tend to be optimistic. In good times optimism works to make leaders seem prescient. In turbulent times, optimism can become a liability, and to avoid wishful thinking leaders need to sharpen the skills of foresight. Methods used to predict the future in the steady-state economy of the past are worthless in turbulent times. When I worked with large market-controlling companies in the 1970s and '80s, corporate strategy was based on using formulas to extrapolate from the present to the future as a basis for deciding how to plan and budget. If a certain number of people were likely to buy cars or install telephones next year, companies like GM and AT&T would use algorithms to plan on producing enough product to satisfy the expected demand. Bureaucratic managers liked having the hard numbers, and in a steady-state economy the predictions were usually good enough. But that methodology was useless when they were dealing with innovation. For instance, in 1980, AT&T used surveys to predict that the market for cell phones would be small in the year 2000, not a good business. In the early '90s, AT&T top management rejected a proposal from John Petrillo, an insightful executive, to make a large investment in the Internet. He was told there was no hard evidence that there would be many customers for it. One top executive called it science fiction. The entrepreneurs who profited from mobile phones like Craig McCaw, and the Internet, like Steve Case, Sergey Brim and Larry Page, were not only trying to predict the future, but more important, to create it. You Need Methods Chastened by their slowness to recognize game-changing technologies, executives now stay awake worrying about market inflexions and disruptive innovations. Andy Grove's book, Only the Paranoid Survive (Doubleday, 1996) was a wake-up call for complacent corporate executives. For Grove, paranoia meant being prepared at all times for attacks by innovative companies that could destroy your market position. However, a paranoid treats possible attacks as though they were probable, and you could go crazy trying to prepare defenses for every dangerous possibility, however implausible. To predict probable or at least plausible futures, you need methods. There are two methods for predicting the future in turbulent times. Scanning is the most direct approach for anticipating the currents of change that might affect your organization. The executives who best demonstrate foresight continually scan for patterns of change. They seek out and listen to people with specialized knowledge who might reveal dynamic trends that could become threats or opportunities for their organizations. Those in business quiz customers about their future needs. They observe the buying behavior of innovators and first adoptors. If you lead a business, your foresight also depends on studying the factors that will change the market, like new products and technologies. You should also pay attention to demographic and social trends that might impact customer behavior and the skills and talents available in the human resource market. Scanning the Audience When I spoke at the Industrial Research Institute annual meeting in Boston last Spring, I was asked to predict whether there would be a cultural change in people's attitudes to saving rather than spending. …

The Grove book of opera singers

Editor's Preface Illustration Acknowledgements Opera Singers A-Z Index of singers by voice type Index of singers by opera role premieres

The Grove book of operas

The Grove book of operas

J. Fenwick, The Malabar Independent Syrian Church. Bramcote Notts., Grove Books, 1992. 21 × 14, 64 p.

J. Fenwick, The Malabar Independent Syrian Church. Bramcote Notts., Grove Books, 1992. 21 × 14, 64 p.

The Changing Balance in Global Mission

1. Some of the consultations sponsored by LCWE were Ho­ mogeneous Unit Principle (Pasadena, June 1977); Gospel and Culture (Willowbank, January 1978); on Simple (London, 1980); Consultation on World Evangelization (Pattaya, 1980); and Social Respon­ sibility (Grand Rapids, 1982); Holy Spirit and (Mex­ ico City, 1985); and Consultation on Conversion, Hong Kong, 1988). 2. Billy Graham, Our Mandate from Lausanne '74, Christianity. Today 19, no. 20 (july 4, 1975): 959. 3. John Stott to Jack Dain, December 2, 1974, Folder 7, Box34, Collection 46, Records of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, 1970-1984, Archives of the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton, Illinois. 4. Leighton Ford, Vision Pursued: The Lausanne Movement, 1974-1986 (Fuller Lectures, November 1986), p. 33. 5. Commitment to Simple Lifestyle, in Lifestyle in the Eighties: An Evangelical Commitment to SimpleLifestyle, ed. Ronald Sider (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982), p. 19. 6. Ford to Stott, August 4, 1980, Folder 7, Box 3, Collection 46, Archives of the Billy Graham Center. 7. Donald Hoke to Ford, July 8, 1980, Folder 12, Box 7, Collection 46, Archives of the Billy Graham Center. 8. Ford, Vision Pursued, p. 57. 9. A Statement of appears in Texts on Evangelical Social Ethics 1973-1974,Vol. 1, ed. Rene Padilla and Chris Sugden (Bramcote, Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1985), pp. 22-25. 10. Ibid. 11. Orlando Costas, Proclaiming Christ in the Two Thirds in Sharing Jesus in the Two Thirds World, ed. Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1984), p.3. 12. Thailand Statement, in The Future of World Evangelization: Un­ reached People '84, ed. Edward Dayton and Samuel Wilson (Monrovia: MARC, 1984), pp. 148-56. 13. Grand Rapids Report: Evangelism and Social Responsibility, in The Church in Response to Human Need,ed. Tom Sine (Monrovia, Calif: MARC, 1983), pp. 452-55. 14. Grand Rapids Report, p. 456. 15. It should also be recognized that many of those at Lausanne were committed to mission in a holistic perspective and were networking for it at Lausanne II. The Covenant had been too big a blessing to be chained and the Lausanne informal network had become too wide and deeply rooted in third-world soil to be restricted to a narrow and ascetic understanding of evangelization. 16. See especially Caesar Molebatsi's address entitled Reaching the Oppressed, in Transformation 7 (january/March 1990): 25-27. How­ ever, there was an unavoidable sense that Molebatsi was out of tune with the official stance of the congress, even if very much in tune with many participants who gave him a significant ovation. 17. From the writer's own unpublished manuscript. 18. Report of the Social Concern Track, p. 2.

Book Review: Fourth Century Anaphoral Construction Techniques By John Fenwick Grove Books 1986 37 pp. £2.00 bklt; Count Us In—Inclusive Language in Liturgy By Vivienne Faull and Jane Sinclair Grove Books 1986 37 PP. £2.00 bklt; The Medieval Development of Liturgical Symbolism By Paul Rorem Grove Books 1986 33 pp. £2.00 bklt; Anglican Confirmation By Colin Buchanan Grove Books 1986

Book Review: <b>Fourth Century Anaphoral Construction Techniques</b> By <scp>John Fenwick</scp> Grove Books 1986 37 pp. £2.00 bklt; <b>Count Us In—Inclusive Language in Liturgy</b> By <scp>Vivienne Faull</scp> and <scp>Jane Sinclair</scp> Grove Books 1986 37 PP. £2.00 bklt; <b>The Medieval Development of Liturgical Symbolism</b> By <scp>Paul Rorem</scp> Grove Books 1986 33 pp. £2.00 bklt; <b>Anglican Confirmation</b> By <scp>Colin Buchanan</scp> Grove Books 1986

Grove Spirituality Series by various authors (Grove Books, Bramcote, Notts., 1982-. 15 booklets at 85p. each)

Grove Spirituality Series by various authors (Grove Books, Bramcote, Notts., 1982-. 15 booklets at 85p. each)

Book Review: Latest Anglican Liturgies 1976–1984 Edited by Colin O. Buchanan SPCK/Grove Books 1985 x + 278 pp. £25.00 Also available in p/b in Alcuin Club Collection 66 £10.50; Anglican Eucnaristic Liturgy 1975–1985 (Grove Liturgical Study 41) By Colin O. Buchanan Grove Books 1985 33 pp. £1.70

Book Review: <b>Latest Anglican Liturgies 1976–1984</b> Edited by <scp>Colin O. Buchanan</scp> SPCK/Grove Books 1985 x + 278 pp. £25.00 Also available in p/b in Alcuin Club Collection 66 £10.50; <b>Anglican Eucnaristic Liturgy 1975–1985</b> (<i>Grove Liturgical Study 41</i>) By <scp>Colin O. Buchanan</scp> Grove Books 1985 33 pp. £1.70

Book Review: Liturgy Reshaped Edited by Kenneth Stevenson SPCK 1982 x + 181 pp. £8.50; He Gave Thanks:An Introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer By Geoffrey Cuming Grove Books 1981 33 pp. £1.40

Book Review: <b>Liturgy Reshaped</b> Edited by <scp>Kenneth Stevenson</scp> SPCK 1982 x + 181 pp. £8.50; <b>He Gave Thanks:</b><i>An Introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer</i> By <scp>Geoffrey Cuming</scp> Grove Books 1981 33 pp. £1.40

The City of the Gods. A Study in Myth and Mortality. By John S. Dunne. (London: Sheldon Press. 1974. xvi, 243 pp. Cloth, £4.50; Paper, £1.95.)/Ministry and Death. By Trevor Lloyd. Grove Booklet on Ministry and Worship, No. 27. (Grove Books, Bramcote, Notts. 1974. 24 pp. Paper, £0.20).

The City of the Gods. A Study in Myth and Mortality. By John S. Dunne. (London: Sheldon Press. 1974. xvi, 243 pp. Cloth, £4.50; Paper, £1.95.)/Ministry and Death. By Trevor Lloyd. Grove Booklet on Ministry and Worship, No. 27. (Grove Books, Bramcote, Notts. 1974. 24 pp. Paper, £0.20).

Baptismal Discipline. By C. O. Buchanan. 24 pp.; Reservation and Communion of the Sick. Edited by C. O. Buchanan. 28 pp.; Ministry in the Local Churches: Problems and Pathways. Edited by R.P.P.Johnston. 24 pp. All published by Grove Books, 1972. 20p each.

Baptismal Discipline. By C. O. Buchanan. 24 pp.; Reservation and Communion of the Sick. Edited by C. O. Buchanan. 28 pp.; <scp>Ministry in the Local Churches:</scp> Problems and Pathways. Edited by R.P.P.Johnston. 24 pp. All published by Grove Books, 1972. 20p each.

List of British Uredinales

Of the 323 numbered entries (including 150 a and 290 a ) in this list, it may be noted that nos. 1–3, 5, 68, 82, 88, 124, 140, 147, 156–7, 161, 167, 210, 215, 226, 241, 259, 262, 265–7, 271, 275, 280, 286, 292, 301, 317, 320 and 321 are doubtful, non-British, or to be deleted. The remaining 290 names might seem to be entitled to rank as British species. (Grove's book has about 263 species, including most of the thirty–three names referred to above as doubtful, etc.) We consider, however, that numbers 11–19, 119, 146–7, 199, 200, 222–4 and 282–3 are no more than forms or races. This leaves 271 names, three of which are varieties, that we consider to represent good British Uredinales. Some may prefer to place ten of these names as forms or vars. of Puccinia rubigo-vera (q.v.). There is still much work to be done on the rusts of the British Isles.