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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the most marginal of us, and/or unlikely parts of ourselves, can still live. This essay takes important steps in linking the suffering of people during the COVID‐19 pandemic; historical legacies of radical Black and queer creativity; and some of the black queer aesthetics thriving in contemporary New...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
...‐ performs in Black studies and the way black aesthetic practices often hinge on anaoriginarity and anachronism as they seek to effect anarchitectural interventions in the languages and institution of artmaking. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Alessandra Raengo 2023 This is an open access...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Moten Fred . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Moten Fred . “ Not in Between .” In Black and Blur , 1 – 27 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Moten Fred . Stolen Life . Durham, NC...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 124–135.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and institutional critique, it includes a discussion of the author's 2020 film Everyday Black Matter as a documentation of radical Black gathering in Richmond, Virginia. The film centers nuanced conversations about Black joy as a critical practice and the subversive efforts some are willing to undergo to secure...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
... these self-mate problems as a black theorization of play, rendered in chess aesthetics, that imagines both game and world radically undone. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Kevin D. Ball 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Black radical aesthetic Figure 1. Wall text by David Hammons. Photograph by author. Figure 1. Wall text by David Hammons. Photograph by author. HAS ANYONE ELSE SEEN THESE.” Scribed on a wall in pencil, this fragment served as crude wall text for a vitrine in David Hammons's 2019...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 156–171.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and disregards social constraints in aesthetic restrictions and prescriptions. In simpler terms, I did not need anyone's permission to play these bars because black radical aesthetics is rooted in tolerance and fortified by adaptability. ■ The first part of the title of this essay was inspired...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and Blur . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Moten Fred . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Moten Fred . “ On Escape Velocity: The Informal and the Exhausted (with Conditional Branching...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 April 2022
... other monograph, In the Break : The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . In a somewhat uncharacteristic moment of self- reference, Moten describes In the Break as a “preliminary report,” in relation to which Black and Blur , it's promised, will be “more preliminary still.” 1 Time...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... activist Sylvia Rivera to create an image built from the pieces and fragments of the trans archive. This aesthetic of brokenness offers an aestheticization of Saidiya Hartman's “critical fabulation” that holds and cares for black transness, a practice of gathering and being‐with and being...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-mitchell-stephen-trask . Monae Janelle . The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer . New York : Harper Voyager , 2022 . Moten Fred . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Moten Fred...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 136–155.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Jillian Hernandez Abstract This article studies how contemporary Black southern cultural production undermines racial and gendered structures of exploitation and foments radical sites of relation by claiming worth under alternative schemes of value that center Black life and demand payment — “cash...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jasmine A. Moore Abstract This annotated playlist follows Missy Elliott's musical cinema. Paying particular attention to the use of speculative tropes, it argues that Elliott's work draws on Black feminist aesthetics to paint paths through memory, nostalgia, sexual autonomy, and spiritual rebellion...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Alessandra Raengo Abstract liquid blackness founder Alessandra Raengo talks with filmmaker and installation artist John Akomfrah about the emergence of the trope of liquidity in his work, in the context of the reversibility between aesthetics, practice, and praxis exhibited since his output...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
... : Duke University Press , 2019 . Moten Fred . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Moten Fred . The Universal Machine . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Muyumba Walton . “ Artists...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Weheliye's interests in the textures of Black, BlackFem, and Black queer and gender-variant life and aesthetics as discussed in the interview, torralba offers texturality as an analytic that characterizes the scholar-critic's work. Together, the essay and interview highlight how Weheliye's oeuvre enables...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... represents a radical approach to creativity. 65 This notion resounds in a scene in “My Black Death”—which is something of an aesthetic manifesto—wherein Jafa depicts his coming-of-age as an artist in Mississippi, declaring that an early encounter with cinema sparked in him the desire to create art...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the aquatic birth of blackness and its perpetuation. Copyright © 2021 Rinaldo Walcott 2021 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). water aquatic liquidity aesthetic art ships catastrophic The sea is History. —Walcott...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the Caribbean Picturesque .” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies , no. 1 ( 2007 ): n.p. Moten Fred . “ The Case of Blackness .” Criticism 50 , no. 2 ( 2008 ): 177 – 218 . Moten Fred . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The avant-garde sensibility is inseparable from a desire for the occlusionary identification constituted by “becoming minor,” which is to say becoming black , since African subjectivity (and its aesthetic production) is the quintessence of radical dys-aestheticness and dissymmetry in Western knowledge...
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