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

For an elaboration of virtuality see, for instance, Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Towards the End of the World,” The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (2014): 81–97.

See Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Blacklight,” in Otobong Nkanga: Luster and Lucre, eds. Clare Molloy and Philippe Pirotte (Sternberg Press, 2017).

Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (Continuum, 1997), 6.

Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics (Continuum, 2006), 27.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement (Hafner Press, 1951.)

For a racial critique of Kant’s common sense, see David Lloyd, “Race under Representation,” Oxford Literary Review 13, no. 1 (1991): 62–94.

Kant, Critique of Judgement, 46.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Spivak, Critique of Postcolonial Reason, 14.

See generally Lloyd, “Race under Representation.”

Kant, Critique of Judgement, 71.

Kant, Critique of Judgement, 70.

Kant, Critique of Judgement, 55.

For a setting-up of trasversality, see Ferreira da Silva, “Toward a Black Feminist Poethics.”