... of love into grasp, into the fold of a proper self, but encounters and opens the self up to its incomprehensibility. We may well think of it as the love of poiēsis in black . Insofar as that poiēsis is a function of para-semiosis , it is a potentiality-of-being that might attend multiple...

... Para-semiosis Paraontology Love divisible person sacrifice ...

... Juba Buzzard Lope Lydia Parish Alan Lomax para-semiosis ...

... that emerges out of a set of human practices that work in the creation of the world. In this sense, they are material indices of a particular semiosis, and may well be indices of multiplicious semiosis, referred to here as para-semiosis . Giving a full account of what para-semiosis means is the work...

... of performative poiēsis in black . Here is where the theory of para-semiosis is developed as the dynamic constitution of the world in the recombinant fluidity of multiple enactments of referentiality, whereby being human is enunciated in the flow. It is also where poiēsis in black is discussed...

... in black . Here is where the theory of para-semiosis is developed as the dynamic constitution of the world in the recombinant fluidity of multiple enactments of referentiality, whereby being human is enunciated in the flow. It is also where poiēsis in black is discussed as an instantiation...

... The coda is a preliminary exploration of two instantiations of para-semiosis that, while in resonant engagement with the love of- poiēsis in black , are not derivative of nor identical with it. One instantiation under consideration is the Algerian writer Nabile Farès’s encounter with James...

... This chapter revisits Windham’s assertion of basic freedom as flesh to elaborate how Du Bois’s insistence on using the term Negro entails a theory of semiosis. It interrogates his unpublished 1890 essay, “The Renaissance of Ethics,” to show how that semiotics was grounded in a critique...