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The Assassination of Haiti’s President by Edwidge Danticat, 071421.

[Haiti’s future] … offers much more appealing opportunities to poor and socially marginalized young men than to work as bodies and guns for hire for gang leaders, politicians, business people, oligarchs, and nefarious international forces, all of whom consider them ultimately disposable—a condition that they and the late President apparently shared.

… Vélina Elysée Charlier, Duclaire’s fellow-Petrochallenger and a member of the anti-corruption group Nou Pap Dòmi. She told me that she sees Moïse’s assassination as a denial of government accountability. “We, Haitians, have been robbed of the right to find justice and closure,” she said. “Jovenel was silenced. We will never have answers from him on Petrocaribe and the many massacres. That is a big blow to our fight against corruption and impunity.”

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Place marked with an impulse, found to be held within the fold (ii-iv).

… the impasse is a stretch of time in which one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic, such that the activity of living demands both a wandering absorptive awareness and a hypervigilance that collects material that might help to clarify things, maintain one’s sea legs, and coordinate the standard melodramatic crises with those processes that have not yet found their genre of event.

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism.

a return to what is noblest, which means most natural, in us. – Popova

Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night. – Walt Whitman

nature calls to something very deep in us. – Oliver Sacks

Brain Pickings

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Fardin, un chef d’équipe, l’hommage de Dany Laferrière. Publié le 2021-07-05 | lenouvelliste.com

En fait, ce qui intéressait vraiment Fardin c’était l’alphabet. Entre l’hebdomadaire (Le Petit Samedi Soir) qu’il dirigeait, ses Cours d’histoire de la littérature haïtienne qu’il a rédigé avec son cousin Jadotte, l’imprimerie qui lui permettait de remettre en circulation les classiques de notre littérature dont ce Sena qui m’a tant fait rire, ses recueils de poèmes où l’on sentait l’influence d’Eluard, et son travail à l’ONAAC (Office national d’alphabétisation et d’action communautaire), on voit bien qu’il ne vivait que pour les lettres.

J’étais debout à côté de Fardin quand les premiers exemplaires de cet extraordinaire document du Procès de la Consolidation sortaient des presses. C’était très important pour lui. Une façon de dire son dégoût de la corruption. Ce procès, qu’il a réédité, impliquait des chefs d’État, des ministres et des hauts fonctionnaires. Une corruption généralisée qui gangrenait le pays pour déboucher sur l’Occupation américaine de 1915.

Also : Présence Africaine Nouvelle série, No. 37 (2e trimestre 1961), pp. 222-224 (3 pages) Published By: Présence Africaine Editions

Within a larger context:

Biden Continues Trump’s Policy in Haiti Despite Bipartisan Congressional Pushback

Lauren Berlant

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An appreciation in newyorker (2019). Supervalent Thought (their blog).

The Hundreds, co-written with Kathleen Stewart. (Form and Explanation by
Jonathan Kramnick and Anahid Nersessian is referenced.)

Duke U Press obit.

Critical Inquiry.

On Citizenship And Optimism: Lauren Berlant, interviewed by David Seitz (2013).

Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence by Brad Evans (2018).

Artforum (2014).

Cruel Optimism (2011) introduction; excerpt.

Genre Flailing (2018).