...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...

... respond to and exceed these contradictory deployments of brutality by continuing to bring out the foundational care of social life. Following Cedric Robinson's theorization of “the ontological totality” as the social modalities in which Black life survives despite the obsessive erasure of Black lives...

... integral is displaced in favor of the ways in which geographical and political binaries extend each other, albeit with marked power differentials, into incompleteness. So, instead of the South embodying specific capacities, enclosures, ontologies, and potentials, it is rather its various tracks...

... purchase, Northup s rescue, and Frado s discharge, provide uniquely useful material to mine the temporal and ontological crises (and possibilities) of nineteenth-century Black freedom. 38 The South Atlantic Quarterly January 2022 The Context of the Durée As mentioned, my use of the word durée...

... 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...

... to the enduring prohibited conceptual status 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...

..., 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...

... between Leo Bersani's ( 1996 , 2009 ) emphasis on fundamental fantasies of passivity and John Rechy's ([ 1963 ] 1994) Queer revolutionary romanticism. In the Black tradition of radical thought, we have the contemporary focus of Afropessimism on ontological anti-Blackness (Wilderson 2020 ), which locates...

... 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...

... circulate around a particular claim about modernity and black studies. Given the modern world’s consti- tution not just as an ontological but as an onto­ theological formation, indeed, as a formation...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...