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This chapter concerns the agency of the image and metaphor of 'flow' in critical, artistic and political discourse. It analyses its use in works of cultural, political and social theory by Raymond Williams, Marshall Berman and Zygmunt Bauman. Flow emerges as a powerful but ambivalent trope, something confirmed in xenophobic political discourse which deploys the possibility of an 'influx' (from the Latin, 'to flow in') of non-white foreigners as a threat to the integrity of the nation. This is further confirmed in the anti-colonial film The Battle of Algiers (1966), where the menacing flow of popular resistance shows a colonial trope being deployed against itself. Anti-racist texts like the engagé phenomenology of Sarah Ahmed and the film Human Flow (2017) treat flow, instead, as essential to physical and social existence. The chapter finishes by asking if the trope of flow would retain its power were our political discourse effectively decolonized.

Flower Fables -- FLOWER FABLES -- THE FROST-KING:OR,THE POWER OF LOVE -- EVA'S VISIT TO FAIRY-LAND -- THE FLOWER'S LESSON -- LILY-BELL AND THISTLEDOWN -- LITTLE BUD -- CLOVER-BLOSSOM -- LITTLE ANNIE'S DREAM -- OR,THE FAIRY FLOWER -- RIPPLE, THE WATER-SPIRIT -- FAIRY SONG -- Copyright

Picking up a bouquet of flowers isn't what it used to be. Biotech breakthroughs, aggressive new competitors, and eager customers who expect their blooms to be fresh and fragrant are radically reshaping the global flower market. The roses, tulips, and lilies that end up on your kitchen table are merely the end products of a long, global supply chain that increasingly relies on everything from the traffic in Amsterdam to the weather in Bogota. Adapted from the source document.