Sandra Ruiz and Hypatia Vourloumis, Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of This World (Minor Compositions, 2021). The images by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis that illustrate the present conversation appear in this book. They are part of a series of photographic vignettes created in response to the book’s title, themes, and section headings.
J. L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words (Harvard University Press, 1975).
Tracie Morris, Who Do With Words (Chax Press, 2018).
Hypatia Vourloumis, “Excess Swarm (Wild in the Wild)” →.
See Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” Small Axe 12, no. 2 (June 2008): 1–14.
Fernando Zalamea, author of Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics (MIT Press, 2012).
1980 film on Sun Ra, not to be confused with 2012 film featuring Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, and Keke Palmer.
Masao Miyoshi, “A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State,” Critical Inquiry 19, no. 4 (Summer 1993): 726–51.
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan University Press, 2001).
The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e), 2009).
Andaiye. “Postcolonial Negations: George Lamming’s Future,” in The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonisation, ed. Anthony Bogues (Ian Randle Publishers, 2011).
See Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).
Kamau Brathwaite, ConVERSations with Nathaniel Mackey (We Press, 1999).
Mary Pat Brady, Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Duke University Press, 2002).
Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017).
Ruiz and Vourloumis, Formless Formation, 83.
Dylan Rodriguez, Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Jasbir Puar, The Right to Maim (Duke University Press, 2017).
See Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Nicole N. Aljoe, Benjamin Doyle, and Elizabeth Hopwood, “Obeah and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” Atlantic Studies 12, no. 2 (2015): 258–66. See also Elizabeth Fretwell’s Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke University Press, 2020).
Paul Gilroy, Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (Serpent’s Tail, 1994).
See “On Difference Without Separability,” by Denise Ferreira da Silva for the catalogue of the 32nd São Paulo Art Biennial, “Incerteza Viva” (Living Uncertainty).
See José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Politics of Performance (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU Press, 2009).
Toni Morrison, Sula (Vintage, 1994).
Ruiz and Vourloumis, Formless Formation, 74.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Autonomedia, 2013).
Walter Benjamin, “The Author as Producer,” New Left Review, no. 62 (1970).
Andaiye, “Postcolonial Negations.”
Return to Nevèrÿon is a series of eleven sword-and-sorcery stories by Samuel R. Delany, originally published in four volumes during the years 1979–87.
Manos Danezis, Straman: A Tale of the Sky (Ekdoseis Diavlos A. E., 2009).
Transcription and footnotes by Joseph Diaz.