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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 (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of camaraderie and intellectual curiosity, contributors consider meanings of the Afro‐Gothic from various disciplines and diasporic perspectives. The participants discuss the ways in which horror, haunting, the uncanny, the monstrous, and the fantastic are manifest in black aesthetics and, in doing so...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 October 2022
... between dramaturg A. J. Muhammad and Moreno‐Penson about the third play in the cycle, Ominous Men (2016), which is about a group of Latino and Black men who gather in the basement of a haunted building in the Bronx to play a game of dominoes on the night of the infamous 1977 New York City blackout. Moreno...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Cauleen Smith Crow Requiem Afro‐Gothic haunting blackness The assembly of crows in the cover image for this issue is called a murder ( fig. 1 ). While the vocabulary is antiquated, it is eerily apt, in that it organizes both the long association...
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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 (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... invokes the possibility of barely heard matter but also ushers forth the unbelievable abyss of breathing. Black breathing is in abundance of, and despite of form, of the dead/alive dyad, of the symbolic. As that which cannot be included into the symbolic order, breathing haunts it all the same. 8...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
... with the aesthetic and sonic haunting of a networked generational knowledge to unfix linear time. 7 And as the appeal of the pop star appearing in music video is, as critics like David James have pointed out, chiefly an erotic one, 8 this annotated playlist demonstrates the entangled relationship between Black...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 April 2021
... liquidation? As much as the ghost of communism is busily afoot in nineteenth-century Europe (again, “A spectre is haunting Europe” is the opening line of The Communist Manifesto ), so King's carceral missive must be understood as an address whose call we cannot ignore. Failing to heed the call...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
... among Black people” derives from the collective haunting “surrounding the events that have shaped the diaspora.” 13 It was not Aunt Hester's screams that were the source of horror in Douglass's narrative but the fact that they could not elicit care; that Black horror has been and continues...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . 9 Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy? , 183 . 10 Toop, Haunted Weather , 42 . 11 Though Karen Barad's formulation of “intra-action” wonderfully destabilizes matter (and the human), it largely remains a relationship between entities, even one as indeterminate as a photon...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... body”: Colin Kaepernick. On the other hand, Peterson's contribution is provocatively haunted by the impulse to cohere around a perceiving subject who thinks of themselves as whole. That is because Peterson establishes a mimetic relationship between the difficulty of thinking the betweenness of helium...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
...,” for example, calls to my mind the haunting way in which Ahmaud Arbery was hunted; the pursuit we watch on grainy video reinforces the knowledge of our own killability. As Ahmaud darts and dodges, his body contorting with the effort of running for his life, it is my breath that quickens and upon my flesh...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... viewers in and assaults them with her archive—a black hole in a white wall, a haunting time capsule, synchronous, and on repeat.” 37 The black hole is often the most re-created vision of horror—as a site of compressed fear and the unknown. Danylevich also refers to the episode as one of haunting...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
... ghosts and haunted houses in a manner that demonstrates the indeterminate nature of many of the elements we have come to see as fixed, even within discourses that thematize the hybrid, alienating, and dispossessing nature of diasporic realities. True to Gothic form, these authors and others explore black...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 140–165.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in the earth, a sort of ceramic mold, which mirror image Fiorelli turned to stone, in much the same way that ancient Greeks had cast bronze statuary. This is surely one of the most haunting kinds of statue imaginable ( fig. 3 ), crude memento mori equal in emotional power to the Laocoön Group. That we place...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... at a terrible historical cost for people of African origin. This knowledge haunts the film. It unites the individual stories in each chapter in a larger, longer narrative of collective memory and shared suffering. Of multiple pasts always within reach of the present. (See video 3 .) The connection between...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that haunts the skies above Agua Dulce, California. Having failed with security cameras, the team attempts to capture IMAX footage of the alien, Jean Jacket, with a hand-cranked camera a director, Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott) has retooled to work without electricity, as Jean Jacket's appearance always...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
... at pictures of a group of ignoble compatriots regurgitating the lowest of American attitudes while sitting in a colonial fortress that is surely haunted by the spirits of Africans who were (not so long ago) kidnapped from the continent in order to cultivate, harvest, plumb, mine, design, frame, and build Cape...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as an adult, Audubon was haunted by abolition, the extinction of birds, and of the Indigenous population—whom he saw as doomed—and indeed of the American wilderness as such. 15 Audubon turned to writing about birds after his debt-funded purchase of enslaved people to work at his Kentucky mill ended...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
... with “irrational” or chaotic blackness. Black performances concerned with reproducing the ( self as) strange/deviant, no matter how pleasurable or counterhegemonic, are haunted by lingering anti-black onto-epistemes that produce(d) blackness as deviance par excellence rather than a consequence of deviant...
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