a measure of [blackness] inter posed between and among inhabited landscapes and an emanant murmur.
The purple stain, […] ingrains floral embellishments, inhabits longed-for gardens.
Category: language
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Radical revolution of values
AP Photo/Horace Cort via PR …the “black revolution” had gone beyond the “rights of Negroes.” The struggle, he said, is “forcing America to face all of its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism and materialism. It is exposing the evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced.”
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His political maturation prompted him to connect the U.S. war in Vietnam to the deteriorating conditions in U.S. cities, and of even more consequence, it prompted him to search for more effective tactics in confronting the legal menace of segregation in the North and the attendant crises: slum conditions, unemployment, and police brutality.
Within this context, King began to publicly articulate an anticapitalist analysis of the United States that put him in sync with rising critiques from the global revolutionary left of market-based economies. Despite the “affluence” of the United States, it was, nevertheless, wracked by poverty and entrenched in an endless war. King masterfully tore down the wall that the political and economic establishments used to separate domestic policies from foreign policies.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
January 15, 2018Fifty Years Since MLK, edited by Brandon Terry. Excerpt at The Paris Review. via Haymarket.
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King
The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler.
JB: My effort in this book is to try to shift the debate on nonviolence from an exclusively moral framework to a social and political one that is informed by ethics. The question of what you would do as an individual in this situation returns me to the moral framework. Of course, sometimes we function precisely in that way and ask: what do I do?
My answer is twofold: On the one hand, I would say that there are enormously forceful and aggressive forms of nonviolence that can be used to oppose state violence and police violence. It can be used to sort or undermine the capacities of violent institutions or violent individuals. I am in favour of that. I do not understand nonviolence as passive. I do not understand it as peaceable. I do not believe it emerges from some internal place of equanimity. Nonviolence can be raging and in fact it might be defined as a way of cultivating or redirecting rage in such a way that it does not reproduce the violence it opposes.
Judith Butler via verso blogs -
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz – Thinking with Places and Objects, on Promise No Promises!
Promise No Promises!, a podcast, opens a new chapter called Feminisms in the Caribbean. In this episode, curator and writer Sonia Fernández Pan talks with artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.
Promise No Promises! is a podcasts series produced by the Womxn’s Center for Excellence, a research project between the Art Institute and the Instituto Susch—a joint venture with Gra?yna Kulczyk and Art Stations Foundation CH. The Womxn’s Center for Excellence is conceived as a think tank tasked to assess, develop, and propose new social languages and methods to understand the role of women in the arts, culture, science, and technology, as well as in all knowledge areas that are interconnected with the field of culture today.
Related : Gosila, 10 – 25 November, 2018.
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Teresita Fernández, Maelstrom
Teresita Fernández discusses her solo exhibition Maelstrom and the key topics it unravels in relation to its central theme: the enduring violence and devastation ignited by colonization in the Caribbean. The arist invites viewers to reconsider the region and the erasure of its past in order to develop a deeper understanding of place, identity, and history. Film by Rava Films. via Lehmann Maupin.
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The Slowdown : 505
You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Girmay
You cheering for the bees
You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats
You protecting the river
You are who I love delivering babies, nursing the sick
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A lecture on Corners
Anne Carson. Presented on May 10, 2018, by GC Public Programs and the Critical Theory Certificate Program.
32:20 “Our house is our corner of the world,” Bachelard says.
32:29 With its dialectic of inside and outside, the house is a container holding an answer to some question that is posed …
Related : visualizing theory conference. Interview in the Paris Review, 2004. Stillness Complicated by Corners – CI.
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in the land of NOPE
I am not an identity artist just because I am a Black artist with multiple selves.
I am not grappling with notions of identity and representation in my art. I’m grappling with safety and futurity. We are beyond asking should we be in the room. We are in the room. We are also dying at a rapid pace and need a sustainable future.
We need more people, we need better environments, we need places to hide, we need Utopian demands, we need culture that loves us.
I am not asking who I am. I’m a Black woman and expansive in my Blackness and my queerness as Blackness and queerness are always already expansive. None of this is as simple as “identity and representation” outside of the colonial gaze. I reject the colonial gaze as the primary gaze. I am outside of it in the land of NOPE.
via Glitch Feminism, A Manifesto by Legacy Russell.
