Alberto Toscano – Real Abstraction and the Dialectic, 2012.
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Latinx Art Sessions
Part of “… ongoing learning series around US Latinx art and culture. This event is hosted by Perez Art Museum Miami and ArtCenter/South Florida as part of their Latinx Art Sessions (January 24 – 25, 2019). PAAM, ACSF, and Ford Foundation.
Racism – On the Media
On the Media’s Face the Racist Nation episode, kind of a re-broadcast, is gem; especially Dr. Kendi’s interview. He makes the distinctive argument for the lineage of racist’s ideas, policy, poverty, ignorance, exploitive systems and attitude, as it has been implemented in the West. His 2016 book is Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
Khalili
“Wet Feet” is a photo series examining the metonymic traces left by individuals forced to travel illegally from the Caribbean, and who eventually reached US soil. Blackboard at Jeu de Paume. Image via IG
Visual corollary
Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self. Egg tempera on paper, 8 × 6 1/2 inches (20.3 × 16.5 cm)
Photo: Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980/Matthew Fried/© MCA Chicago/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York via Vulture
Childish Gambino
Published on May 5, 2018
“This is America” by Childish Gambino
Director: Hiro Murai
Producer: Doomsday with Ibra Ake and Fam Rothstein of Wolf + Rothstein
Garnette Cadogan
Walking While Black – Literary Hub, July 8, 2016 by Garnette Cadogan. PRI’s The World.
AG2016_1030667aBB or a fine place for our respite
Related : Jean-Claude Charles, La Route du Blues, via Île en île.
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And also related to :
Knowledge of freedom is (in) the invention of escape, stealing away in the confines, in the form, of a break.
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.
We are already there
In the deployed undercommons.
Also, Black Kant, black chant, N.H. Pritchard .
Another reference to Kant.
“All the richness of the imagination,” Kant cautions in the Critique of Judgement, “in its lawless freedom produces nothing but nonsense.”
Knowledge of Freedom by Fred Moten CR: The New Centennial Review Vol. 4, No. 2, phosphorescent memories (fall 2004), pp. 269-310