Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press, 2007).
Bernard Stiegler, “Noodiversity, Technodiversity,” trans. Daniel Ross, Angelaki 25, no. 4 (2020).
Louis Chude-Sokei, The Sound of Culture Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016).
This line of critique of technology works to reinforce rather than challenge the recursive authority of philosophical decision, which maintains the image of a mindless machine thinking as an extension of the necessary speciation and racialization of the human and reason. Similarly, one could argue that even when the poiesis of machine thinking returns in terms of repurposing, retooling, and redistributing, artificial intelligence continues to be measured against the original site of thinking, the natural evolution of sapience, and the cosmogomy of Capitalist Man. What the necro-entropy of information capital feeds on is precisely the extraction/abstraction of the total value of the flesh in the making, which is instead represented in terms of an anti-creative mimesis of machines.
I am thinking of field here in the sense used in Quantum Field Theory. Recursive colonialism is here considered a concept—the name of an approach—that, like the electron in the electromagnetic field, names a certain reconfiguration of matter operated by that which is chosen as the main aspect to be studied. It is in this sense that black feminist poethics is described as playing in the field of recursive colonialism. This means that, if black feminist poethics is used to delimit a field, one should be able to describe recursive colonialism playing—operating, but not defining—in it.
Here I am playing with the slight difference between dual and double: dual carries the sense of two separate things while double has the sense of the same thing repeated (copied, etc.).
Such as those in my essay “Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique,” philoSOPHIA 8, no. 1 (2018).
For the development of this argument, see generally Denise Ferreira da Silva, Unpayable Debt (Sternberg/MIT Press, 2021).
Alain Badiou, Being and Event (Continuum, 2005), 252.
Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit (Urbanomic/Sequence, 2018), 271.
Catherine Malabou, Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains (Columbia University Press, 2019), 142.
Fred Moten, Knowledge of Freedom, Stolen Life (Duke University Press, 2018), 14.
Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Toward the End of the World,” The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (Summer 2014).