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Blackness and Animality beyond Recognition
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 373–389.
Published: 01 December 2019
... than relationally, in ways “symptomatic of an antiblack order that depends upon denying the singularity of racial slavery and confining it in the distant past.” 9 Boisseron’s Afro-Dog draws on Che Gossett’s work to describe this move as the “sequential” idea that the animal is the “new black...
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On “Saidiya”: Indian Ocean World Slavery and Blackness beyond Horizon
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 241–280.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Parisa Vaziri Abstract This article attempts to address the contemporary turn to astrophysics lexicons in Black feminism by bringing together scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery and Black studies. Through an experimental reading of encounter with Indian Ocean and African slavery in Saidiya...
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Otherwise than Blackness: Feeling, World, Sublimation
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 247–283.
Published: 01 December 2020
... maxim in both contemporary and classical theories of affect. Focusing on the figure and question of the World and its grammars of relation(ality) and becoming, this essay considers the implications of an insistence on worlding in the context of anti-Blackness. It argues that the sustenance of the very...
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An Afropessimist, Antidisciplinary Rejoinder to History, Its Human, and Its Anti-Blackness
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
...David Ponton, III Abstract Scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds have been critical of history’s vision of itself as grounded in empiricism, its function as a secularist theodicy, and its commitment to humanism. Meanwhile, Black studies has exposed the Human as a sociopolitical...
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French Working-Class Banlieues and Black American Ghetto: From Conflation to Comparison
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Loïc Wacquant Copyright © 2007 Qui Parle 2007 FRENCH WORKING-CLASS BANLIEUES AND
BLACK AMERICAN GHETTO: FROM
CONFLATION TO COMPARISON1
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For Stanley Cohen
The purpose of this article is to lay out the rudiments of a compar-
ative sociology of the structures...
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Theory in Black: Teleological Suspensions in Philosophy of Culture
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Lewis R. Gordon Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 ARTICLES
Theory in Black
Teleological Suspensions in Philosophy of Culture
lewis r. gordon
My aim in this essay is to explore some challenges in the philoso-
phy of culture that emerge from its often repressed but symbiotic...
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Performing Stillness: Diaspora and Stasis in Black German Vernacular Photography
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Tina M. Campt What changes in our understanding of the experience of black communities in diaspora when we move beyond the binaries of stillness and motion to engage black life through the lens of stasis? This essay explores a collection of vernacular photos of a black German family in the Third...
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The Catastrophe: Black Feminist Poethics, (Anti)form, and Mathematical Nihilism
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 353–372.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Calvin Warren Abstract This essay argues that black feminist poethics uncovers a deep philosophical problem between pure form and pure matter. Mathematics is the site of such contention, and the decision to retain form or destroy form presents ontological and epistemological complexities...
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The Third Revolution: Black Women’s Twentieth-Century Experiments in Ending the World
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 391–404.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . Hartman Saidiya . “ Venus in Two Acts .” Small Axe , no. 26 ( 2008 ): 1 – 14 . James Joy , and Vargas João Costa . “ Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs .” In Pursuing Trayvon: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial...
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Starships and Slave Ships: Black Ontology and the UFO Abduction Phenomenon
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 June 2022
... whiteness alongside the archival absence of Black abductees. Using abductee accounts, interdisciplinary studies of the UFO abduction phenomena, and critiques of Black subjectivity, this article attends to the ontological anxieties that permeate UFO abduction narratives and their choreographic resonance...
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Abolish the Oikos : Notes on Incapacity from Antiquity to Marxist Feminism, Black Feminism, and Afro-pessimism
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 199–243.
Published: 01 June 2023
... internalization of the abolition of slavery (preserved in the wage relation), for Afro-pessimism the slave-human antagonism—which I will demarcate through the difference between capacity and incapacity—is perfected through its collision with blackness and expression in race and gender. By positioning slavery...
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The Devil Finds Use: Black Queers Do The Exorcist
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Brandon S. Callender Abstract Beginning with James Baldwin’s critique of The Exorcist in The Devil Finds Work (1976) and ending with campy allusions to the film in the works of three contemporary black gay authors, this article argues that the aesthetics of possession helps articulate queer forms...
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Fig. 11. When asked to guess how the management felt about there being Black and white residents in the village, the majority said that they were neutral or simply said that they did not know.
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Diaspora and Entanglement
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Michelle M. Wright Abstract This essay interrogates rising interest in the concept of “entanglement” by Black studies scholars. Beginning with its definition in theoretical physics, the essay moves to Karen Barad’s “agential realism” to explore how diasporic ways of knowing are used to define...
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“South Africa Is the Land of Pet Animals”; or, The Racializing Assemblages of Colonial Pet-Keeping
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 December 2020
... representations of colonial pet-keeping, the essay shows how the racializing tendencies of Western humanism—especially within slavery and colonialism—manifest within gendered animal-human relationships and help construct both Blackness and whiteness. It focuses on pet-keeping in the colonies to explore...
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The X of Representation: Rereading Stuart Hall
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
...David Marriott Abstract This essay is a study of the notion of representation—its relation to difference, politics, diaspora, otherness, truth, and doxa—within Stuart Hall’s work. The reevaluation of this concept in terms of dialectics and différance, or of blackness and innocence, is shown...
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Thinking “Diaspora” with Stuart Hall
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jenny Sharpe Abstract This article revisits Stuart Hall’s writing on “diaspora” to highlight its potential for future work on the topic. Although Hall has been faulted for excluding modern Africa, his historical and geographic approach to black cultural identities introduces the possibility...
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Introduction
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Abstract The all-too-common refrain “I can’t breathe,” in response to obscene incidents of police brutality and the murder of Black people in America, has haunted us through this time where breath is not only dangerous and necessary but also, in this nation, hyperpoliticized at a number of flash...
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Dead Tired
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ianna Hawkins Owen Abstract This essay concerns the descriptions of exhaustion connected to the suicidal thoughts and actions of Anyanwu, the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Wild Seed (1980). Expanding the disability studies concept of desirelessness to graze Black diaspora studies...
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Being Ocean as Praxis: Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 335–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... by theories of blackness impacted by transatlantic oceanic encounter? Copyright © 2019 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2019 ocean Sylvia Wynter poetics taxonomy blackness The sea is history. Derek Walcott 1 In my dream I was in a huge room with many people in it. Maybe it was a warehouse...
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