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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): 168–203.
Published: 01 April 2022
... are central to Blount Moorhead's roots, Prettyman borrows the essay's title phrasing, “Doing It, Fluid ,” from a song by the group the Blackbyrds. The song's aggregation of an array of sonic components embodies the capacities of black expressive life to animate multiple creative impulses at once, providing...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of altered destiny. With black life cornered into visible places of antiblack state violence, in this piece we attempt to listen for, and breathe, another articulation of the world. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Jessie Cox and Isaac Jean-François 2022...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 16–35.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Brenton Boyd Abstract This article meditates on black unbelonging as the haunting impasse reached when attempting to wrest a phenomenological account of black life amid perpetual black death. It seeks to expose the calculated dislocation of black modes of being, embodiment, and sensation from...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to what they refer to as “black work,” or aesthetic experimentations in making multiple forms of blackness appear and emerge in the present moment. For Ross, the present is not merely a death-driven end but, at once, a rigid structure and a “space of unlimited potential” wherein blackness and black life...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of faith and grief as part of the soundtrack to everyday black life. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Ryan Waller 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). hip‐hop haunting black life ghetto psychic states...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Rinaldo Walcott Abstract This essay argues that thinking through black diasporic life as birthed through a unique and ongoing relationship with bodies of water (sea, oceans, rivers, creeks) can and does aid in analyses of contemporary art and its engagement with black subjectivity. I am concerned...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... offers a different relationship with brokenness in her call to “come undone,” whereby those who are “broken” can gather their broken pieces together not to heal but to give and share one's pieces with another. This essay engages Tourmaline's Salacia (2019), a film about the life of Mary Jones, a black...
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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 (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., providing a generative commentary on sexuality, Black femininity, gender nonconformity, and pleasure. This critical layering of the strange and uncanny provide a utopic space in which Black feminist life thrives. The methodological focus of this essay draws on an array of Black scholarship that maps...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Alix Chapman Abstract This essay argues that limbo is a chronic aspect of black queer life and thus the tools this community has developed in responding to these experiences might offer solutions for dealing with the acceleration of disaster in the twenty‐first century. The author offers...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
... this poiēsis as polygenous and para‐semiotic, the essay argues that it is a performative black critique of capitalism's commodification of life. Something about Negro liquidity, however, is phantasmagorical and fetishistic, in Marx's sense. The $500 market price for a young Negro male, reflected in the face...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... sentence forged in friendship (of thinking with, of writing with). On one level, “Grief Aesthetics” is concerned with inherited grief, the remains of stolen life, the residual desire for romance in contemporary black art. The essay considers the loss of romantic love in conversation with Terence Nance's...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., storytelling. They give gifts. They mate for life. They're very playful, very curious. And I contrasted that with how they were discussed and described. It was almost too easy of an analogy to think about that in relationship to the way that young black men are so easily murdered or perceived as a threat...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 85–93.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that opens with a grand thesis about Black life that then reduces the object to an extended anecdote. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and shitty art criticism. We also knew that “art for art's sake” writing has never and could never make the futures we need. Formalism without history...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
... that I have, a beautiful [musical] performance?” 26 That is, she insists on a type of instrumentality whereby her life practice is the instrument for music making, and music making is radical space making for black sociality: making a way out of no way, making spaces for gathering. Channeling...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of my tragicomic African/American experience. The loneliness is born of feeling always alienated, homeless, and liminal. The joyfulness arises from remaking myself or imagining alternative futures through the global art of Black life and art about global Black life. On August 12, 2017, as I looked...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 112–126.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... When you say “cutting into,” I automatically think of your work in relation to someone like Romare Bearden and his use of collage and his source materials, literally cutting images of black life from National Geographic or places that might be perpetuating certain stereotypes—anthropological...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in African diasporic writing's contemplations of black life in the present. In terms of genre, James's traffic in horror makes it clear that his generic modus operandi is the Gothic. In what follows, I demonstrate how thinking through some of the Gothic tropes in James's writing—excessive violence...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the gothic—with a little g –nature of black life. It's a gothic that's more about affect, and ambience, and not necessarily in lockstep with the familiar conventions of a known genre. LT: I think you're exactly right in terms of the big G / little g . The term is so loaded with historical...
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