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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... practice makes to contemporary black aesthetic theory. Both Fred Moten and Jared Sexton cite Lacan as a predecessor to, and point of departure for, black ontologies with his use of “dehiscence” to describe the split inherent to subject formation. 45 They also draw from Frantz Fanon as a foundational...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 124–135.
Published: 01 October 2024
... it. Inspired by their theories of aesthetics, deviance, and femme worldmaking, the author collaborated with Jillian Hernandez, whose contribution “Ca$h App Connectivities” is included in this issue, to develop a conversation that centers everyday Black matter and extended well beyond the pages of this journal...
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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 (2024) 8 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of editorial, design, and ethical choices we began making ten years ago, but also the outcome of an exciting partnership with Duke University Press. Since the beginning, our aim has been to produce an object that would respond to the aesthetic theory explored on each page. We learned our methodology from...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Jafa's approach to artmaking—that is, to undertaking—rests on a certain idiosyncratic understanding of ontology, phenomenology, cosmology, and ethics that is synthesized into a theory of aesthetics he calls the abject sublime. One of the conundrums or dilemmas of black being is that who we...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... The article reads Thompson's work as a philosophical and gamic critique of the prevailing logic that regards play as a space of consent and escape. Contrary to Eurocentric theories and commonsense notions that align play with leisure, the article examines the racial duress that shaped Thompson's extraliterary...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., and uninterrupted, as more than one, a many-tongued chorus, a procession, semi-sung / semi-wept , semi-danced: Adeyemi Kemi . “ The Practice of Slowness .” GLQ 25 , no. 4 ( 2019 ): 545 – 67 . Adorno Theodor . Aesthetic Theory , translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . Minneapolis...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 April 2022
...” and that therefore undoes the denigration of culinary taste that typifies the “formalist” strain of aesthetic theory running from Kant to Adorno. Again, if aesthetics means anything for Moten, it is not the hierarchization of matter into form, but the multiplication and dispersal of content, beyond the confines...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... distinction between living and sculptural bodies he traces in an emerging aesthetic theory from antiquity to neoclassicism, as well as in the double meaning of stillness as spatial and temporal marker. 108 Ruprecht reads a series of contradictory statements about living and sculptural bodies caught...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... values.” 7 It is what Mercer has to say about the Gothic as it manifests in the diasporic imagination, however—its particular amalgam of “beauty and terror”—that is most crucial to our formulations for this issue. “I would observe that where the concept of the sublime in 18th century aesthetic theory...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of aesthetic gathering, for the way in which its undeniable stickiness and insistent materiality aggregate objects, ideas, methods, and processes around itself. Indeed, from the beginning, for us “liquidity” referred also to the blurring of distinctions between theory, practice, and praxis, a blur that has...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 4–15.
Published: 01 October 2024
...,” was published in October 2017, and we returned to the topic in October 2023, liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 7, no. 2, “Suspension.” 11 Zeeman, “Catastrophe Theory,” 66 . 12 Cuthbertson, “Alberta Whittle,” 38 . 13 Small Axe , “Visual Life of Catastrophic...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
... unconscious.” 27 This suggests a connection between a Western-centric theory of history and what Moten is calling its racist unconscious. This theory of history and aesthetics cannot fathom modernism as emanating from any source other than itself. I am interested in thinking against the grain...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
...), rarely mentions any critical methods related to work in queer theory even very broadly understood, perhaps with the exception of a glancing reference, in Lawrence Kramer's contribution to the New Audiovisual Aesthetics volume, to Foucault's The Order of Things , which supplies one of the “pressure...
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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 (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . “ Reformulating Black Cinematic Labor .” liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 8 no. 1 ( 2024 ): 86 – 101 . Baker Houston A. , Jr. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . Barrett Lindon...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of archival investments coupled with a shared ethos of critical vulnerability. While approaching blackness as process attempts to think about its ongoingness, it also reaffirms the aesthetic realm as a privileged processing site. Copyright © 2021 Alessandra Raengo 2021 This is an open access article...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 April 2023
... . Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling . New York : Springer , 2012 . Nugent Richard Bruce . “ Smoke, Lilies and Jade .” In Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent , edited by Nugent Bruce , Wirth Thomas H. , and Gates Henry...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 108–123.
Published: 01 October 2024
... the black-lit computer screen displays the bluish hue of lines of code scripted in white characters ( fig. 2 ). This piece calls to consider the aesthetics of a widespread medium, that of the PC, as carrying a history that, despite the discontinuities of technology and its propension to perpetual “newness...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 136–155.
Published: 01 October 2024
... “con-artistry” as a theory of queer Black joy. This text joins Barracks's con-artistry with my conception of high-maintenance feminism, which describes a contemporary cultural movement in which Black femmes assert their value beyond the confines of respectability and demand what is due to them...
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