...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. This essay examines the significance of time to the production of black ontology and thus to the field of black studies. It takes as its point of departure the field-changing call to think more critically about the enduring legacies of chattel slavery, particularly how...

... bare the limitations of a normative black politics, and taken together with the ontological claim underlying the Black Lives Matter (BLM), calls into question whether it is possible for black lives to matter within the colonial assemblage that is the United States. I frame this discussion through...

... instead of the South embodying specific capacities, enclosures, ontologies, and potentials, it is rather its various tracks and circulations, rather than consolidations, that engender dispositions beyond clear apprehension or capture. Thinking of such extensions through the lens of Blackness, the South...

.... The concomitant interpenetration and creativity of durée can be an exceedingly useful point of departure for interpreting the temporalities of slavery and freedom in Black studies by providing for the ways in which the political economies and anti-Black ontologies of colonization and slavery s past inform our...

... metaphors that compellingly reveal the black ontological condition or situation of experience under examination in his work. In all of this, herme- neutics emerges as the most forthright historiographical method by which Du Bois undertakes an answer to the questions made manifest in his con- ceptual...

... agree with and am making recourse to the oeuvre of afropessimist thought that emphasizes the ways in which the given ontology sanctions (Black) social death, though I ultimately yearn to refuse this ontological scene by way of a paraontological abolition politics. 2 In Harriet Jacobs's Incidents...

...  739 constitutes a certain proximity to that thought is not (just) that blackness is ontologically prior to the logistic and regulative power that is supposed to have brought it into existence but that blackness is prior to ontology; or, in a slight variation of what Chandler would say...

...Jodi A. Byrd Close reading Irrational Games’s 2013 BioShock Infinite to consider how notions of the wild circulate at the site of the both absent and present Indian, this essay argues that the ontological turn in technology studies is predicated on the juridical, racial, gendered, and colonial...

... to the decolonial project simultaneously use legal means to construct and deconstruct nonhuman subjects, and become nonsubjects themselves? Scenes of Demand The strains created by these legal-ontological projects are obvious in organizing spaces. In the spring of 2021, for example, the Red, Black, and Green New...

... of black politics in political theory is the task I have set myself here. Politics, Blackness Conceptions of politics in Western political theory, operationalized in political science, have generally disregarded the ontology of the political, preferring instead to assume its impress...

..., following Fanon, to ground our conception of the universal in an ontology that recognizes “the open door of every consciousness.” © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Alexander Peter . 2010 . “ Rebellion of the Poor: South Africa’s Service Delivery Protests—A Preliminary Analysis...

..., Culture, and Society 31 , no. 4 : 3 – 27 . Gawne Mark . 2014 . “ Ontology, Composition, Affect: The Political Limits of Postworkerist Thought .” PhD diss. , Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney . Grossberg Lawrence . 2010 . Cultural Studies...

... response to Michel Foucault's ontology of the present, the essay reexamines the cultural ideology and poetics of négritude in light of the idea of an untimely and fractured present. At the center of the analysis is Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land . Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques...

.... It solicits the development of a paraontological dis- course” (41). Such a ghostly discourse is the discourse of blackness, which registers as a certain sonic criminality or noise within or even “music libel against” (adapting HaCohen 2012) ontology or the thought and practice of purity or pure being...

... essentialist notions of identity, notions that give an ahistorical ontological reality to cultural and national identities. It has also opposed itself to hard versions of multiculturalism, versions that are highly...

..., but also Mario and Oswald de Andrade in Brazil). These national ontologies, furthermore, were founded on the vernacularartistic languages offered by traditional and subaltern urban cul­ tures, particularly blacks (in Brazil and the Caribbean) and indige­ nous people (in Mexico and the Andean countries...

... Theodor . ( 1951 ) 2005 . Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life . London : Verso . Anderson Victor . 1995 . Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism . New York : Continuum . Bahti Timothy Klein Richard , eds. 1981...

... or not, it certainly remains the case that white sovereignty is the historical and ontological problem that confronts Black politics, particularly as Black populism. A Genealogy of Black Populism To be sure Black populism is not new; it has several histories that we are now obliged to revisit in the light of 2020...

... a persistent subjugation, blackness was per- ceived as an ontological positionality characterized by sloth, laziness, disso- lute sexuality, and capitulation to impulse and instinct, all attributes that were inimical to self-deliberation and, in the absence of white governance, inherent to the status...

... for a middle ground that does not really exist? Barnor Hesse’s primary focus is the notion of the “postracial” (like him I place this term in quotation marks), in vogue shortly before and after the election of Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who did not make race a part...