Saidiya Hartman, “A Room with History,” Paris Review Daily, January 9, 2023 →. This essay is on Dionne Brand’s The Map of No Return.
Bayo Akomolafe, “Black Lives Matter, But to Whom? Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness (Part I),” Democracy and Belonging Forum, January 19, 2023 →.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi (University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 73.
Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (Picador, 1970), 77–78.
Fred Moten, “The Case of Blackness,” Criticism 50, no. 2 (Spring 2008), 187.
Moten, “The Case of Blackness,” 187.
Edouard Glissant, The Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing (University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Oxford English Dictionary.
Nahum Dimitri Chandler, “On Paragraph Four of ‘The Conservation of Races,” CR: The New Centennial Review 14, no. 3 (2014): 264.
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 255.
Chandler. “On Paragraph Four,” 256.
Fred Moten, “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh),” South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 4 (Fall 2013).
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 258.
Denise Ferreira da Silva, “On Difference without Separability,” in Incerteza Viva: 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, ed. Jochen Volz and Júlia Rebouças (Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2016). Exhibition catalog.
Denise Ferreira da Silva “No-Bodies: Law, Raciality and Violence,” Griffith Law Review 18, no. 2 (2009).
The no-body also calls forth the “no humans involved” outlined in Sylvia Wynter, “No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to my Colleagues,” Forum N.H.I.: Knowledge for the 21st Century 1, no. 1 (Fall 1994).
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso, 2022), 177.
Hartman, “A Room with History.”
Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (Vintage Canada, 2002), 10, 23.
Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return, 25.
Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return, 25.
Akomolafe, “Black Lives Matter, But to Whom?”
Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return, 125.
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives (Norton, 2020), 26.
Hartman, Wayward Lives, 15.
Gilmore, Abolition Geography, 177; Hartman. Wayward Lives, 15.
Chandler. “On Paragraph Four,” 259.
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 260.
Gilmore, Abolition Geography, 177.
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 270.
In Universal Machine (Duke University Press, 2018), Fred Moten writes: “This is to say that I‘d like to bring the set of questions that is black social life into relief by way of, and by passing through, the notion of chromatic saturation,” which he defines as the intensive overlap of sound and color where all notes are played simultaneously and all colors are present (153, 156). Attuned to the differential of blackness, in the break, Moten speaks of “a certain chromatic saturation that inhabits black as that color’s internal, social life” (168).
Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Akomolafe, “Black Lives Matter, But to Whom?”
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 281. Emphasis in original.
Tina Campt, A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021).
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 278.
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 278.
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 281–82.
Chandler, “On Paragraph Four,” 282.
Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Experience (Free Press, 1933); William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism (Harvard University Press, 1906).
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (Free Press, 1978).
James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, 93–94.
Jodi Melamed, “Racial Capitalism,” Critical Ethnic Studies 1, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 76.
Glissant, Poetics of Relation.
Rizvana Bradley, “On Black Aesthesis,” Diacritics 49, no. 4 (2021): 21. Emphasis in original.
Bradley, “On Black Aesthesis,” 35.
Bradley, “On Black Aesthesis,” 36.
Fred Moten, Black and Blur (Duke University Press, 2017), 300.
For more on the figure of the clearing, see Erin Manning, Out of the Clear (Minor Compositions, 2022).
Melamed, “Racial Capitalism,” 78.
Gilmore quoted in Melamed, “Racial Capitalism,” 78.
Brian Massumi, 99 Theses for the Revaluation of Value (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), 31, 22.
“The digital automation of financial trading intensifies the role of surplus-value of flow by accelerating data analysis and as a consequence the speed of turnover of financial transactions. This boosts capitalism into hyperdrive. Surplus-value production effervesces. Machinic surplus-value production overall asserts greater and greater autonomy from its would-be human masters’ conscious control.” Massumi, 99 Theses, 37. Emphasis in original.
Massumi, 99 Theses, 53.
Glissant, Poetics of Relation.
See Erin Manning, “Practicing the Schizz,” chap. 5 in For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Duke University Press, 2020).
Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks, 77–78.
William David Hart, Blackness as Black (Lexington Books, 2022), 9.
Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Duke University Press, 2020).
Akomolafe, “Black Lives Matter, But to Whom?”