2011: 5.0 - (De) Fatalizing the Present and Creating Radical Alternatives

Published: 2011-11-01

Note From The Editors

• Introduction: (De) Fatalizing the Present

  Anna M. Agathangelou

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I. Contemporary Problematiques: Tensions, Slavery, Colonization, Accumulation

• The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism

  Jared Sexton

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• The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents

  Frank B. Wilderson III

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• Chanting Tahreer and Compassion: People as Poetry

  Khadija El Alaoui

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• The Wages of Non-Blackness: Contemporary Immigrant Rights and Discourses of Character, Productivity, and Value

  Tamara K. Nopper

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II. Intimate Poetics

• Freedom; Radio Gaza; Morning in the Streets; A Drawing of Breathing; A Guide to Being Palestinian (5 Poems)

  Nathalie Handal

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• Document for U.S. Citizens Who Have Never Applied for a Visa and Have Just About Had It with These Aliens Who Go On and On about Some Letter; Deep English; and Autumn Leaves (3 Poems)

  Tsitsi Ella Jaji

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  Buried Traces

  Michelle Smith

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  The Bed and Breakfast Notebooks

  Alexandra Handal

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III. Erotics of Co-Existence: Paintings/Photography

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  Between Signs, Symbols, and Signals

  Oswaldo DeLeón Kantule “Achu”

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  The Lonely City

  Cliff Davidson

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