Issue #79 Below the Water: Black Lives Matter and Revolutionary Time

Below the Water: Black Lives Matter and Revolutionary Time

Nicholas Mirzoeff

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A section cut of Fordite, a paint sediment collected from the Ford factories of Detroit. Photo: Flickr/Agatehill

Issue #79
February 2017










Notes
1

Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 111.

2

Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), xi, ellipses in original.

3

Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces,” Diacritics 16 (Spring 1986): 22–27.

4

Alexander Weheliye, Habeas Viscus (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 3.

5

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014 .

6

Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital (New York: Verso, 2015), 10.

7

See .

8

Karen Barard, “Nature’s Queer Performativity,” qui parle, vol. 19, no. 2 (Spring–Summer 2011): 121–58.

9

I’m drawing here on José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia (New York: NYU Press, 2011).

10

E. P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism,” Past & Present 38 (December 1967): 56–97.

11

David Roediger, Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All (New York: Verso, 2015), 18.

12

Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982).

13

See .

14

Quoted by Lynn Hunt, “Revolutionary Time and Regeneration,” Diciottesimo Secolo 1 (2016): 62.

15

1825 English text available at .

16

George Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, vol. 1 (Paris: Deterville, 1812); quoted by Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 2nd ed. (London: Penguin, 1997), 69.

17

Kathy Finn, “Science Meets Voodoo in a New Orleans Festival of Water,” Scientific American .

18

See .

19

See C. L. R James, The Black Jacobins (1938) and Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944). Present studies include Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

20

Azam Ahmed, “Haitians, Battered By Hurricane, Huddle In Caves: ‘This Is The Only Shelter We Have,’” New York Times, October 17, 2016 .

21

Laurent Dubois, “Who Will Speak for Haiti’s Trees,” New York Times, October 27, 2016 .