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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Grant Farred Abstract Beginning with the premise that “liquidity” is an abstraction, this essay takes up liquidity as the condition for thinking capital, race, and racism, the ways in which capital shapes the possibilities of being—black—in the world. Using a range of theorists, from Karl Marx...
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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. Works Cited Artemundi . “ Celebrating Thirty Years Of Artemundi: Leaders In Art Investment, Pioneering Art as an Asset .” www.artemundi.com/celebrating-30...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... thinking, Barca Nostra 's spectacularly disturbing presence at the heart of art-world capitalism and its laissez-faire attitude to Black life and death does something more than remind us of horror and inequality. Read within the context of the black aquatic, Barca Nostra opens up the conversation about...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., writing, and conversation in this issue demonstrate the continuity between these scholarly modes as our contributors explore the concept of “liquidity” through the lens of capital, diaspora, the environment, materiality, movement, and sound. Our aim is to sustain this dialogue, allowing it to take new...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 85–93.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Museum, March 16, 2019, 4:19 p.m. Figure 4. In a hall of whiteness at the Frye Art Museum, March 16, 2019, 4:19 p.m. And so, we sent this brief style guide to our 2020 writers: June 30, 2020 Dear Contributors, We appreciate and share investments around the capitalization of the word...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 75–83.
Published: 01 October 2021
....) And so we ask: Can “aesthetic asceticism” effectively resist commodification and thereby reverse the subsuming of art by capital, redeeming vanity, as it were, in the process? 14 Or can it only make statements to that effect, wherein the limits to capital actually remain generative for its...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., polyvalent historical time. Blackness understood as metacritical engagement threaded through contemporary semio-capitalism; antiblackness understood as historical repetition of multiform racializing violences underlying both institutional power and processes of embodiment and subjectification; and sex-gender...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 October 2021
... recurrent devaluation of the material and capital value imbued in the singular art object is also a recurrent apathy toward a general condition of art history. What might be seen as temperamental or impulsive acts are instead depicted as embodiments of refusal and ways the artist implements an emphasis...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with great terror and reduce it to the vicissitudes of a daily existence. It is therefore an expression of an elastic horror, a forever horror that characterizes ordinary black experiences and challenges the universality of fear and anxiety paradigms rather than capitalizing upon an isolated, frightful...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by painter Bill Hammond, and the work of decolonizing extinction. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Nicholas Mirzoeff 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). whiteness birds racial capitalism John James Audubon bird...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
... embodied practice that capitalizes on a growing global desire for contact with Africa and its cultural forms, just as it comprises a living, evolving vehicle of African identity affiliation.” 40 The moniker “Mother of African Contemporary Dance” assigned to Acogny is exploited by Global North...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 66–83.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the trio of films invoked at the outset: it is a formless monster that allows form (as whiteness) to come into being as such. 12 Moore, “Starships and Slave Ships,” 144 . 13 Shukin, Animal Capital , 91, 119 . 14 Snead, White Screens, Black Images , 8 . 15 Jackson...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that the challenging topics contributors have explored so far (capital, materiality, chromatic theory, polyrhythmia, abstraction, philology, ecocriticism, etc.) remain open and unresolved, but we might not have anticipated that the experience we've gained while doing this meticulous work would make our editorial...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in popular and commercial culture, by engaging, again, in an anabasis of their collusion with capital's relentless processes of abstraction and valuation, such as Ebony magazine—to attend to what the artist describes as the “complicity of the entrepreneurial drive in America that is also attempting to lift...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and the notion of liquidity in the practice was an attempt to address all this. AR: You talked about this as a surplus. Is there a tension for you when you think about this as value and surplus and the liquidity of capital, which is a principle of generalization and planetarization but also a force...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of color from the formal and abstract equality of mercantile capitalism.” 49 Ultimately, Equiano is the beginning and the end of the “general equivalent . . . because he operates such that he can never be rendered as the privileged example of the emptiness of equality or universality in general...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... capital and black liquidation. 11 In my case, they are grant applications and budget sheets, annual reports and reviews, promotion files and institutional surveys. The latter, by contrast, are the improvisational, fugitive sounds of ensembles stretching and contracting, forming and dissipating...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 April 2024
... [and] crystalliz[e] the intensification that the obsolescence of labor has undergone in the present, revealing a historical experience that, much as some retreat from this fact, more and more of us are confronting in the crisis that is capitalism now. 25 Death is the consequence of Otis Sr.’s irresistible...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
...) for the pools as capable of rendering the obscenity of the scene of exchange that racial capital so overtly instituted in the time since nominal emancipation and formal segregation. Thus, in her design of Ghost Pools , the equation of value is nothing but a ghost, although also a specter of what continues...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2005 . Deleuze Gilles . Cinema 2: The Time-Image . Translated by Tomlinson Hugh and Galeta Robert . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1989 . Demos T. J...
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