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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... on the erasure of Black liveness alongside such erasure, while also listening to those composers and aesthetes that are erased when we do not listen for their breathing. (Black) breathing is channeled into/through instruments, making it musical, and through these sonic transmutations of states of matter...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... This methodological maneuver is part and parcel of Hammons's decades‐long practice and serves to enact a Black aesthetic determination already sleeved in its own method. This article works to unpack how Hammons throws into methodological disarray the question of art's histories by his relentless invocation of Black...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sybil Newton Cooksey; Tashima Thomas; Leila Taylor; Lea Anderson; John Jennings; Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) Abstract The roundtable gathers specialists dedicated to thinking through the Afro‐Gothic as a conceptual approach to black aesthetics and as a theoretical framework. In the spirit...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the mirror stage in relation to the black aesthetic of Anzinger's works situates the psychoanalytic subject within an expanded field. Attending to the environments reflected in Anzinger's mirrors reveals the ecological inflections suggested by Lacanian subjectivity but never recognized within it. Moreover...
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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): 168–203.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Black filmmakers remain connected to histories of Black creative collectives while also reimagining black aesthetic and technological possibilities. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Michele Prettyman 2022 This is an open access article distributed under...
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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 (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in this era. The entwined reflections on black life, death, and aesthetics offered up by Jafa, Claudia Rankine, Hortense Spillers, Elizabeth Alexander, and Sylvia Wynter shape these speculations toward a black creative, curatorial, and cultural practice attentive to the other(wise) worlds opened by uncanny...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the aesthetic can be understood not only as a processing site but also as a space of congregation. 93 McKee, “Staging Mirrors,” 71 . 94 McKee, “Staging Mirrors,” 67 . 95 Cox and Jean-François, “Aesthetics of (Black) Breathing,” 99 . 96 Cox and Jean-François, “Aesthetics of (Black...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 156–171.
Published: 01 October 2024
... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). abolition geography transdisciplinary collaboration Cook County Jail black aesthetics FRONTIS. Prison bar collected by Maria Gaspar from Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph from Tumbling (2023...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... contend that the film's borrowed Asian aesthetic actually partners with Moonlight 's investigation into Blackness/nonhumanness. In keeping with the theme, “informalisms,” of this issue of liquid blackness , this essay first highlights how Asian forms—particularly the Asian femininity within Days...
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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): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and the slippages and the fluidity of making” in Woods's practice. 52 What emerges, for me, are at least three ways in which black liquidity both is harnessed as primitive accumulation and becomes a matrix for aesthetic processes whose modes of abstraction continue to mutate, modulate as they acquire...
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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): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Kelly I. Chung Abstract Featuring a conversation with the artist, this essay offers a reading of Amina Ross's aesthetic practice across a selection of their work. Alongside Fred Moten's own critique of the overrepresentation of blackness as death-driven, it highlights their ongoing contributions...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Fahima Ife Abstract An excerpt from an experimental series, “Grief Aesthetics” is a lyrical essay on intimacy and writing. The essay participates in the double black study of eroding and composing a new sentence, a new sentence sounded in refusal (of the social pact of writing, of grammar), a new...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... trans sex worker who became infamous in 1836 following her arrest in New York City, as producing a black trans aesthetic of brokenness. Using a collage style of placing distinct frames upon frames, Tourmaline mixes speculative retellings of Jones's life alongside archival footage of Latina trans...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Critique of the Power of Judgment , translated by Guyer Paul and Matthews Eric . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . Lloyd David . Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics . New York : Fordham University Press , 2018 . Moten Fred . Black...
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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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Published: 01 October 2024
FIGURE 18. The ornamental aesthetics of Dr. Coghill's ($kalyncoghill) nails. Everyday Black Matter (Chaz Barracks, 2020). Frame grab.
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