Met him at princeton, at a student happy hour he was defending using the n word in lectures while i struggled to not kick his ass (i was undoc at the time, worried about deportation risk)
Excerpt from Karen Gagne's article "On the Obsolescence of the Disciplines" Text: That we have been unable to reach “another landscape”—as proposed by Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) in the 1960s—in order to “exoticize” Western thought to make visible its laws whereby we would be able to unfix the sign of blackness from the sign of evil, ugliness, and the negation of whiteness, has been for two reasons. These are, according to Wlad Godzich (1986) as quoted by Wynter, first, “the imperviousness of our present disciplines to phenomena that fall outside their pre-defined scope” and, second, “our reluctance to see a relationship so global in reach—between the epistemology of knowledge and the liberation of the people—a relationship that we are not properly able to theorize” (Wynter 2006a: 113).
We've been unable to "shift out of our present conception of Man, out of our present World System" in part bc of “our reluctance to see a relationship so global in reach—between the epistemology of knowledge and the liberation of the people—a relationship that we are not properly able to theorize”
“Thinking in terms of self-contained categories allows researchers to sidestep considering local & broader geographic, historic or macro-social contexts.
Everything researchers need to know seemingly exists inside the category.
also obscures role of researchers as
coarchitects of these categories”
an unsurprising outcome of standard categories-as-destiny research practices across the social sciences
the ongoing scientific reproduction of the colonial racial figuring of the human
I’ve been listening to this on repeat this week. It’s a very good album, and maybe my favorite album title ever?
So glad to see that their paper is out. 🚨🚨🚨
"‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’
in Journal of Sociolinguistics
@riannawalcott.bsky.social @christianilbury.bsky.social
Link below
#Linguistics #OpenAccess
“many of us are disquieted by the specter of the negative. We want something to hold on to. But negativity is something we bear whether we acknowledge it. Black studies at its best is committed to thinking w this unthinkability. Anteaesthetics opens with a call to stay with negativity of Black art“
“Black artistry advances a thought of negativity without recuperation. Rather than acceding to presumption that Black art should advance a reparative politics, its negative power lies in incisive critique of social order. It challenges political grammars by disclosing & unsettling their foundations”
Excerpt from Denise Ferreira da Silva’s essay “The future of two presents” Text: Both humanity and raciality prevail in this dystopian digital future. Each seem to continue to work as planned and, as expected, their workings become explicit when they happen to cross paths. Humanity and raciality meet in the abstractions (lines, curves, scenarios, maps) that capture the population as a statistical composite, but only because Sars-CoV-2 mirrors the human as a species (to use Spivak’s term—Marx’s “Species Life”). That figuring replaces the qualitative (historically achieved transcendentality) singularity of the human with a quantitative (scientifically determined) generality. As such, this generality lacks precisely the attributes that testify to humans’ singularity: namely, dignity. Each person only counts as a potential casualty (infected, recovered, or dead), a digit to be added to the graph of confirmed cases, one which has the possibility of either joining the dead or the non-dead column. Is this a signal that Deleuze’s control society has displaced disciplinary power and its dichotomies? After all, these abstractions are the product of other abstractions and, as experts repeat on TV, are just predictive models, probabilities. Thirty years later, now, it may have become evident to many that Deleuze’s image was partial, that it missed something. Something that many still miss even as raciality cuts through COVID19 numbers, adding other abstractions that qualify its deaths. For it brings in bodily (underlying conditions) and economic (essential services) configurations that indicate which persons are more likely to be contaminated and which persons, once infected, are more likely to die from this new disease.
“Thirty years later, now, it may have become evident to many that Deleuze’s image was partial, that it missed something…
At the same level of abstraction, raciality recalls how human beings do not exist (live and die) in this world in the same way”
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just started watching the show soulmates & episode “little adventures” has such a cute exploration of a poly relationship
it looks different for everyone & takes lots of communication, but when it works, it works🥰
"how to make a film without time?
linear time—is at the core of the critique of historical materialism & its account of value/
time’s ethical force is obstacle to a political program that deals with the pervasiveness of racial violence & the colonial juridical mechanisms that facilitate extraction"
Muindi’s analyses are always on the pulse
💯
the violence of *humanization*.... this quote stuck with me for years, it's the problem with dehumanization research:
what human figure/genre are they trying so hard to include us into?
at what cost?
“the problematics of the Negro and the trans as modalities of desedimentation might quite literally free us from ourselves or cultivate the possibility for non-ontological being-indeed, da Silva's ’being-in-the-world anew’”
“let’s place a subject under any BIPOC categories in that position. Neither will nor desire would hold because categories yield social subjects that are unable to conceive of laws of necessity & to actualize a free will, as they have been constructed in a subaltern position vis-à-vis white European”
“if you place the white European, as a racial subject, there, where it supposedly belongs—in the position of the transparent “I”—its own claims to transparency would not hold because it is determined by racial signification & by the historical juridical relation of conquest, settlement, enslavement”
“When figured racially, subject of psychoanalysis is mediated juridically & scientifically/ doesn’t stand alone as figure of authority, nor enter naked in symbolic positions of authority
neither— Freud ego, Lacan subject— survives confrontation with the wounded captive body in scene of subjugation”
Excerpt from Alex Adamson's article "Beyond the Coloniality of Gender: María Lugones, Sylvia Wynter, Decolonial Feminism, and Trans and Intersex Liberation" Text: The decolonial perspective offers an analysis of Eurocentrism as a geopolitical organization of knowledge and power that ushers in a particular conception of what it means to be human. The Eurocentric conception of the human works to justify our present geopolitical organization of power and wealth. When decolonial philosophy and praxis are taken seriously, merely studying or raising questions about gender and sexuality is not inherently revolutionary or radical, as some feminists have purported. The focus in feminist philosophy on the constructedness of identities and socio-political categories is not the same as recognizing their constructedness within the context of colonialism nor the culturally specific Western bourgeois norms to which they adhere. Similarly, if queer theory and analysis are to be the epitome of a denaturalizing analysis of sex/gender/sexuality, one cannot properly understand these concepts without also interrogating the mode of being human from which these categories emerge. A “history of sexuality” that does not make this point salient hides the prior violence, dispossession, and exploitation that enact our present mode of being human, meaning that such history does not, and cannot, point to anything beyond this paradigm.
"When decolonial philosophy and praxis are taken seriously, merely studying or raising questions about gender and sexuality is not inherently revolutionary or radical
If feminism is merely the recuperation of a positively defined “womanhood” or “manhood,” it becomes a colonial feminism"
shoulder press practice, 105 lbs 🏋🏽♂️
“Personhood was never intended or shaped to be something we would use for freedom, for thriving of all human beings & other beings/
was a way of individualizing actions & responsible-izing people who were powerless so they could be dealt with by powerful men who wanted to exploit or dispossess them”
"This does not need a remedy, this does not need a balm, this needs an ending,"
Dionne Brand
Front upper body headshot of OP who is half smiling, wearing a golden yellow t shirt and standing in front a scuffed up blue wall.
i feel much more
than what i planned
“ungendering = primary narrative of violence/ consequent elaborations of gender as forms of violence that gift gender as additional violence/ “doubled” nature of gendered violence is in the giving of gender itself
gift of gender as the gift of death redoubled as a violent entryway into being Human”
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
"biocentric science produces ‘impoverished knowledge’ because it ignores the sociocultural genesis of the human through narrative/ it actively represses our awareness of sociogenesis by limiting the truth of human nature to the biological and insisting on its transcultural universality"
