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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 October 2021
... aesthetic practices that deform, if not refuse, their own making. Copyright © 2021 Sampada Aranke 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). sight/seeing intervention/interruption David Hammons deformation racial protocols...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Like the essays featured in this issue, A view of a landscape invests in “church problems”—the problem of how stuff goes together—but does so by tearing things apart: the motor is in one room, and its sound is in another one; frustrated sight is rendered through muffled sounds, movement as stasis...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 66–83.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., “The introduction of the black body brings with it the anthropologist's measuring technique.” See Smith, At the Edge of Sight , 77, 83 . 19 Warren, “Black Care,” 40 . 20 Warren, “Black Care,” 45 . 21 Consider Daniel Kaluuya's understated performance as OJ, almost his shyness in front...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... own reflection in the orificial mirror. Extending these refractory sight lines into the landscape, the mirror stage produces being as an ecological rupture constituted by the false coherence of the subject in relation to both the psyche and the environment. Here I hope to productively overread...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., can alter, magnify, distort, and fragment objects. With light and each moment and orientation, spectators might partially perceive how these jars visually illuminate their capacities to change and hold multiple rather than a single line of sight through time and in the present. Figure 4. Amina...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 28–45.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the Ellington-Waller collaborations we can see how suspended movement works to render the flickering and destabilized shadows of this jazz lantern show as emblematic of the liquid sight Deleuze theorizes. And although the play of shadows is common to early film, they appear less frequently in the jazz shorts...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2022
... not scarcity but a modest rise in value. It made a certain kind of financial sense to kill everything in sight. But creating endangered species, human and other-than-human, was a more important component of the psychological wages of whiteness. Exterminating birds offered a particular form of violent pleasure...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
... they at least get to occupy a location, or are they too set adrift? I mentioned the solitary figures in period costumes—Equiano being the most prominent—as they sit or stand amid a northern landscape, their backs turned to us. 23 One could identify with them and look at the surrounding sights (including...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 95–119.
Published: 01 October 2021
... on the limits of choreography but also demonstrate the impossibility of ignoring its social arrangements. From the chorus line to intimate partner dances, for Hartman the chorus is both a social and aesthetic form that expands on performance by attending to the site and sight of the encounter. Possibilities...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 48–67.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of a social world whose history is predicated on black death. This history repeats itself in mutated iterations that play upon a “postracial” society's training to ignore or repress racism “hiding” in plain sight. deader than dead refuses to repress the artifice of theatrical representation, showing...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 88–99.
Published: 01 October 2023
... impossibility of trying to cross it. Catastrophe is always in sight but never accessible. Here the asymptote links together blackness, freedom, and impossibility, such that the suspension of these motifs keeps them tethered in relation and yet also subject to limitations. In this sense, the asymptote parallels...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 59–73.
Published: 01 October 2021
... behind in China by Carver, she appears wistfully gazing out to sea, waiting like Penelope for her Odysseus. The images are stitched together in shot–reverse shot patterns that suture the viewer to her perspective. At one point she perks up at the sight of a steamship on the horizon. After a quick volley...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that characterize the long-standing fraught relationship between blackness and representation. It is “out yonder” that OJ's most crucial and likely fatal labor is evocatively figured. The off-screen, out yonder, out-of-sight locating of a black death decidedly disrupts the centrality of anti-black brutality...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
... titular and unique style, offer their own distinctive visual construction that brings to life the sonic performances of each video. Known for working with hip-hop's biggest stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hype Williams invests in a proprioceptive reorientation of sight, using the “fish-eye” lens...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 136–155.
Published: 01 October 2024
... that this gold doesn't shine just as bright as real gold. You just can't. Higgs invokes smell, sight, taste, and feeling as part of her Black matter, recalling Stallings's framing of funk as “a multisensory and multidimensional philosophy capable of dismantling systems of labor that organize race...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 68–91.
Published: 01 October 2024
... termed the “slow violence” of climate crisis: the ecological disrepair that is occurring “gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space.” 6 This disrepair is expressed, he continues, in symptoms as wide-ranging as “the thawing cryosphere, toxic...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 16–35.
Published: 01 October 2022
... attitude cannot entirely “grasp” flesh because intentionality must remain tethered to its subject in order to survive. Flesh keeps this subject at bay by virtue of its general indiscernibility. Collapsed into flesh, into nowhere, the body-subject would vanish from analytic sight. Phenomenology, therefore...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the other on shores as distant as Afghanistan (America's “longest war,” as we are so often reminded, with no end in sight), Iraq, Central America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, the list is long), Iran (Mossadegh, 1953), and Africa (the Congo, Angola; once more, there are names to be added). As we agreed...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., is hearing other voices, other musics. A misalignment of visual and visible registers requires, simply, repositioning on our part regarding the “visualization” of the image, as Keith Harris puts it, “a mode of discursivity as well as a mode of making visible,” foregrounding “a sight of historical affect...
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