Issue #120 Four Theses on Aesthetics

Four Theses on Aesthetics

Rizvana Bradley and Denise Ferreira da Silva

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Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Blacklight4Waters-Deep Implicancy, 2018 (left). The Otolith Group, Zone ll, 2020 (right).

Issue #120
September 2021










Notes
1

Denise Ferreira da Silva, “In the Raw,” e-flux journal, no. 93 (September 2018) .

2

Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1997), 4.

3

Cf. Tiffany Jeannette (Lethabo) King, “In the Clearing: Black Female Bodies, Space and Settler Colonial Landscapes” (PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2013).

4

Fred Moten, The Universal Machine (Duke University Press, 2018), 230.

5

David Lloyd, Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (Fordham University Press, 2018).

6

Hortense J. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Diacritics 17, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 64–81.