”Since I must not all the same allow you to look at the future through rose coloured glasses, you should know that what is arising, what one has not yet seen to its final consequences […] is racism, about which you have yet to hear the last word. Voilà!”Jacques Lacan”The desire of the text (the […]
Toward an Ethics of ListeningBenjamin develops his Angel of History – the historical materialist view of history – apropos the dominant historicism of his time, which not only claims to understand the past “the way it really was” but naturally sympathizes with the victor’s story (2003: 391). Notably, while often being attentive to the histories
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With its vast array of historico-ontological and metaphorical connotations, movement can easily be identified as a master trope of the Black Diaspora, be it the forced movements and removals of colonialism and transatlantic enslavement, the northbound movements of the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, Post-war emigration from the colonies, or the complex flows of contemporary
”To Trace Out a Story”: Narrating Movement and the Movement of Narrative
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