exilée
my impending departure / across the atlantic / a small kind of exile across the atlantic / exile / the painful split from all else / i loved the split in retrospect
black camera
“what does it look like to dream
alternate, oppositional futures, in a context in which the prison-form is structural and permeates everything, from the relation to the global imperial order and the state, to interpersonal and familial relations?“
“what does it look like to dream
alternate, oppositional futures, in a context in which the prison-form is structural and permeates everything, from the relation to the global imperial order and the state, to interpersonal and familial relations?“
problem space
“my body is a camera, a blinking, unsettled machine. there is a real interest in its mimetic desire – like a cancer, growing, needing containment. an enactment of the violent hyper-productive regime of global capital.”
“my body is a camera, a blinking, unsettled machine. there is a real interest in its mimetic desire – like a cancer, growing, needing containment. an enactment of the violent hyper-productive regime of global capital.”
re: constrictions
“the boa is enmeshed in the identities of the river, and the work speculates on the sketches, plans, and tracings made by those founding fisher-architects as they sought to disentangle and re-present an untranslatable experience.”
“the boa is enmeshed in the identities of the river, and the work speculates on the sketches, plans, and tracings made by those founding fisher-architects as they sought to disentangle and re-present an untranslatable experience.”
blue note
“i have to constantly wrestle with speech and the constraints of meaning. i cannot continue. i have lost this battle.“
“i have to constantly wrestle with speech and the constraints of meaning. i cannot continue. i have lost this battle.“
hauntologies of the domestic
“these were mementos, i thought. these napkins, these rags, they were the ceremonial draping cloth. they were a series of final songs, a parting poem.”
“these were mementos, i thought. these napkins, these rags, they were the ceremonial draping cloth. they were a series of final songs, a parting poem.”
a metonymy for repair
“a split that occurred at the level of the wrists and ankles, of neck and waist, in the navel: at the level of kinship between the african continent and its diaspora.“
“a split that occurred at the level of the wrists and ankles, of neck and waist, in the navel: at the level of kinship between the african continent and its diaspora.“
reading ecologies
“reading ecologies: transforming publishing in africa calls for insurgent publishing, rooted in the political, aesthetic and epistemic struggles of independent publishers from the african continent and diaspora.“
“reading ecologies: transforming publishing in africa calls for insurgent publishing, rooted in the political, aesthetic and epistemic struggles of independent publishers from the african continent and diaspora.“
appendix
“a collaborative space, since the labor of reversal and prefiguration can only be done together.”
“a collaborative space, since the labor of reversal and prefiguration can only be done together.”