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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with the poetic line, the sentence (thinking about sentences), the space in writing, the mundane moments in between the emergence of a line or series of lines and declension as it occurs in the gaps. At every turn “Grief Aesthetics” practices creating in “commonsense” (a shared feeling, a shared aesthetics) among...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
... University Press , 2019 . Girmay Aracelis . “ A-Legba Poetics: Reading Komunyakaa .” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire 14 , no. 2 ( 2014 ): 46 – 57 . Hebdige Dick . Cut ’n’ Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music . New York : Methuen , 1987 . Kennedy Robert F...
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in Artists in Residence: Jason Moran and the Bandwagon Improvising Freedom (After Walker, Kelly, Kentridge, and Komunyakaa)
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Published: 01 October 2021
of an epic poetic series. Nathaniel Mackey's majestic, lyrical works in fiction, poetry, and criticism might serve as a cognate here. An interesting way of listening and thinking about Moran is as a lyric improviser who shape-shifts serially across many roles, in the process enjambing them into an ongoing
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 88–99.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... Image courtesy of the Michael Richards Estate. Mapping the asymptote requires visualizing those relationships between suspended objects that are determined by mechanical physics to elevate the poetic interaction of abstract elements in Tar and Feather as objects that both reference the real...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and in the academies alike. Of course, reading across Looking for Langston toward Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied (1989) and back again reveals a dedisciplined, poetic essayism that is fully historical as much as it is complexly rhythmic, dialogical, and antiphonic, in sound and image and in historical work...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to the unknown, an affirmation of the impossible, 42 it is a Glissantian poetics, which is marked by porousness of form so as to “encourage us to envisage a future in which new genres will arise.” 43 We can listen to improvisation with impossibilities alongside Sun Ra: “The possible has been tried...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ‘Aesthetics,’ ” 267 . 11 Glissant, Poetic Intention , 182 . 12 Reportedly, between €9 to €33 million (and possibly as much as €58 million) was spent getting the ship to Venice for the exhibition. See Stock, “Privileged, Violent Stunt.” 13 Makonnen, When Drowning Is the Best Option...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... entails the combined experience of beauty and terror, it overlaps significantly with a category of the Gothic, although the poetics of haunting—and the theory of ghosts—has a potentially wider field of relevance in the specific context of slavery and the African diaspora.” 8 What unfurls in this issue...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., Archaeologies of the Future , for the distinction between form and wish. 3 Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” 6 . 4 This turn to errantry and ontological indeterminacy follows in the steps of several thinkers: Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway ; Glissant, Poetics of Relation ; Nancy, Sense...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
... anachronistic: BVI found Ariel rather than the other way around. And it found her distinctly as a techno-poetics that has the potential to create a black feminine musical space—an anarchitecture of feminine creative energy. 18 Ariel does not approach BVI as a formula or an algorithm, but rather...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... Nuyorican Gothic is a multi-play cycle written by the dramatist Desi Moreno-Penson, who describes the overarching project as “dark, stylized, and fantastical plays that are set in the Bronx, featuring Gothic themes, heightened, poetic language and specifically ‘Nuyorican’ characters.” The Nuyorican Gothic...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... from jail take a more melancholic turn. On this track he waxes poetic about his life in the hood, noting that taking care of street beef isn't an issue for him (“that's off the dribble”), and focuses on the harsher facts of street life, reminding the listener “ain't no hospital when them seven points...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 100–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
... about poiesis in another great book for which we both share an affinity—Kevin Quashie's Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being . In that book, he describes black aliveness as a practice of poiesis , a term that indexes the “activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the rhythm of his poetic fluidity as well as his delivery. There are many ways of defining this in the technē (the poetic know-how) of rap. Drew Morisey describes flow as “drum patterns over an instrumental converted into words, that is, drum rhythms over the instrumental that are in word form, coming out...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 April 2022
...: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 . Schestag Thomas . “ Porcelain, ” translated by Kavett Jason . German Quarterly 87 , no. 2 ( 2014 ): 216 – 28 . Wasser Audrey . The Work of Difference: Modernism...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Best Stephen . The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 . Best Stephen . None like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Blount Moorhead Elissa , Cheon...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and was first discovered as lines in the sun's spectrogram. Children's books poetically pose the notion that “we are all stardust”—atoms released during the Big Bang imbuing all life forms ever after. Helium renders irreducible micro and macro, the structure of the atom from the elemental, the earth in its...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 October 2021
... A deformation of mastery strives toward a wink at the canonical and yet ultimately bends or breaks such forms through an uptake that essentially accounts for how Blackness has always already transformed and impacted the form in the first instance. This concept is much akin to Greg Tate's poetic insistence...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 102–109.
Published: 01 October 2023
... method “historical poetics.” Hartman, “‘Beautiful Experiments.’” For Hartman's take on the limits of fictive imagining, see Hartman, Review. Christina Sharpe also urges, “We must become undisciplined.” Sharpe, In the Wake , 13 . 8 I thank Derrais Carter for the idea of historical data...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 April 2021
... by an insurmountable interdependence. King's rendering is more poetic. And as such, perhaps more edifying and uplifting: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” 30 There is no constitutive outside. No one...
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