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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Alessandra Raengo Abstract This introduction contextualizes the present issue within the question posed by its call for papers: “How does blackness index its own processes?” Following an immanent methodology that seeks formal principles at work within each contribution, it retrieves a variety...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 85–93.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Lisa Uddin; Michael Boyce Gillespie Abstract This essay reflects on the impulses, aspirations, and process of an online art criticism series called Black One Shot , which ran in 2018 and 2020 on ASAP/J , the open access journal for the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 66–83.
Published: 01 April 2024
...William Brown Abstract Jordan Peele's Nope (2022) features a shape‐shifting and Cthulhu‐esque alien that feeds off settlers and other arrivants in the California desert. Focusing in particular on the Haywoods, a family of Hollywood horse wranglers descended from the otherwise anonymous Black rider...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
...R. A. Judy Abstract This essay explores the question of black liquidity in relation to Zygmunt Bauman's conception of liquid modernity. Along these lines, it charts the historical process by which capitalist modernity cast the Negro as a commodity and how that led to so‐called Negro liquidity...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Kevin D. Ball Abstract In The Red, White & Black , Frank B. Wilderson III uses a chess analogy to describe the way in which blackness is positioned outside of the chessboard of the human subject, thereby granting shape and substance to its integral pieces. Thinking alongside this analogy...
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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 11. liquid blackness , Third Measure (Anna Winter, Josh Cleveland, Cedric Simmons, 2023), opening image. Frame grab. More
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 124–135.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Chaz Barracks Abstract This essay presents a theory of con-artistry as a queer practice of Black joy that claims relational and material abundance in the face of tropes of deviance and conditions of austerity. Drawing on auto-theory and describes how media-making can foment Black pleasure...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 49–56.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Mark Anthony Neal Abstract The essay explores how the invisibility and trauma of Black women are negotiated in Black sonic culture, utilizing Ricardo Cortez Cruz's experimental novel Five Days of Bleeding (1995), in which the primary female character, Zu‐Zu, speaks (and sings) primarily using...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 75–83.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jared Sexton Abstract This brief essay addresses the quest for “the blackest black,” a totally absorptive, nonreflective surface—in science and engineering as much as in art and entertainment—as an occasion for conceiving difference differently. Here black is both a color and a color space in which...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jessie Cox; Isaac Jean-François Abstract A meditation on (Black) breathing, this essay reflects on blackness and breathing as motile (un)representable practices. Black subjects are able to resist by breathing in spite of modernity's impulse to cut off black motion at the throat. Though deeply...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the historical present is not seemingly graspable by existing paradigms. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Sheri-Marie Harrison 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). New Black Gothic feminine abjection queer...
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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 (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
...James Tobias Abstract While Black Studies and Queer Studies have offered a range of terms and methods for considering sound, music, and musicality in audiovisual work over the last half century, studies of sound and music in audiovisual media that have attempted to define these latter disciplines...
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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 (2024) 8 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Courtney R. Baker Abstract Considering the 2022 film Nope , this essay pushes beyond indexical and ontological readings of blackness in film in order to consider how invisible forms of blackness—in particular, the labor of black film workers—are inscribed in the film text. It argues...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and political engagement with Wong's cinema. It highlights how the distinct Asian femininity, or ornamentalism, of Days of Being Wild (1990) and In the Mood for Love (2001) are translated into Moonlight and reinforce the film's key themes on Black queerness, especially its ontological implications for Black...
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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 (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Alessandra Raengo Abstract Tasked with the mandate to “set the record straight” about the beginning of the liquid blackness research group and journal and to explicate the theoretical and conceptual parameters of the idea of black liquidity, this introduction negotiates the irreconcilable tension...
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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 (2024) 8 (2): 108–123.
Published: 01 October 2024
... , a computer encased in dirt, the main piece in Artist's installation Black Gooey Universe , fringed on material formlessness as black goo oozed out of the keyboard, spilled over the desk and into the white box of the gallery space, its viscous drops suspended midair, rewriting the racial history of computer...
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