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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 (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... on Kevin's shoulder in the second and third acts of Moonlight , he recalls Su's stolen moment of public intimacy with another man amid her sorrow over her lonely marriage ( fig. 6 ). Like Su, Chiron/Black takes a risky chance for an illicit touch. Other characters in Moonlight are also constituted by Su...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... ships as learning to live in one another's skins. 59 Jafa's understanding of the double sense of being handled shows up in Love Is the Message in his staging of the intimacy of violence and care. A joint in the film that best exemplifies what Jafa means to say about the perils and protections...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Phillips Carl . Double Shadow . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2011 . Sharpe Christina . Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-slavery Subjects . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . 12 Bakhtin...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2021
... make humans creative participants in the carbon cycle. Breath is also touch: its planetary entanglement drawn back into the intimacy of an other. “Imagine someone's breath on a sensitive part of your skin, say the cheek. It is only air, invisible, intangible, yet one feels the caress or touch...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., whereby a “feminized, animated, Asiatic object” can articulate “ the human [as an] incidental alibi for, or an afterthought of, relishing this pure objectness.” 40 Transferability is not equation or exchange. Perhaps a poetic flow, it is certainly a matter of the “intimacy of four continents,” 41...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 48–67.
Published: 01 October 2024
... space of the stage, “obscene” movements representing violence, pain, and death construe the “intimacies of death” and the “permeability of life and death.” 21 Lewis's description of deader than dead as a “meditation on death . . . a condition of bad faith/bad fate,” allows bad faith...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... her voice. And the histories we have of Jones, most notably from Nyong'o and Snorton, while rich and invaluable texts on the intimacies of blackness and gender, remain attached to what is given by the archive. However, as Hartman has taught us, the archive is shaped by what is deemed worthy of being...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., Papa's Maybe,” 75 . See also Moten and Judy, “Of Human Flesh.” 18 Moten, “Touring Machine,” 179 . 19 Moten, “Touring Machine,” 180 . 20 On diffraction as both a phenomenon and a methodology, see Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway . 21 See Lowe, Intimacies of Four...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 112–126.
Published: 01 October 2023
... because they are preeminent magazines of black culture, history, entertainment, politics. . . . They are chock full of angles into black life in America. There are so many layers that I get excited about. In the case of this piece, both the ways we talk about hair care and the intimacy of hair care. I...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 85–93.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to the speculative, ambivalent, and irreconcilable ways of black form as cultural production? What if one were compelled by their object and not their tool? In an ongoing experiment without a hypothesis, we imagined new stipulations for the labor and intimacies of art criticism and aesthetics. With a prompt...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of breathing centers the composition of various Black aesthetes including but not limited to Julius Eastman, George Bridgetower, and Pamela Z. Breathing demands that we question how bodies and instruments ensemblematically aspirate: expand and contract through the liquid fascia of time, intimacy, and flesh...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 95–119.
Published: 01 October 2021
... determines a choreographic mode of attention in which the vulnerability of intimacy with strangers becomes palpable. For Tina Campt, Okpokwasili's practice generates what she describes as hapticity , or the relational space of intimacy. She writes, “Feeling across a shared spatiality requires...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Research Institute. Thank you to Barbara Paca for generously helping me access these materials and to Kyle Tata and Alaina Dexter for sharing their thoughtful insights with me on photographic production processes. 1 Lisa Lowe, quoted in Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” 11 . See Lowe, “Intimacies...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... existence. Juvenile's album Solja Rags (2017) retains a lo-fi, eerie intimacy. It feels raw and intense, like we are in the room with the artist. So at the same time Juvenile regales the audience with tales of crime and sex, he also takes us to the heart of New Orleans and the Magnolia Projects...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a certain intimacy to the dreadfulness of contemporary trans-shipped cultures of “the Black Mediterranean” in a manner such that whiteness could both be scandalized by the ship as art and look the other way from the ship as European failed policy on migration. 7 Walker's Fons Americanus at the Tate...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 4–15.
Published: 01 October 2024
... together and apart, each essay details its own methodological framework and claim, while steeped in a shared process. 28 For Barracks, making and writing about art in the wake of tragic loss and academic alienation, autoethnographic storytelling is an expression of black kinship and intimacy...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 168–203.
Published: 01 April 2022
... “Facing the Band: Elissa Blount Moorhead and the (Ana)Architectures of Community Ties” that I recognized her as a kindred spirit. I witnessed the power and intimacy of these collaborations on my visit to her home in Baltimore about six months later, in May 2021, as we were all still navigating...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
... explain how the series of art criticism they created for ASAP/J was prompted by a desire to abandon prescriptive attachments to determined outcomes or allegiance to the “diagnostic imperative” of art criticism and establish greater intimacy with the object. Their commitment to process and its...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of a bygone era called out their mistreatment in song. Equally, the sigh sounds pleasurable—a fusion of the erotic and betrayed intimacy—giving the audience the cues to both see and understand the doll's blues. This fusing of pain and pleasure becomes the focus of the video. The open-mouthed sigh...
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