On
accustomed to a life of burden as our appetite for liberation wanes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
this: you can become absorbed by the archives to the point that you no longer know how to interrogate them.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
contrary-it is the capacity of the material documents to record change that makes them such believable witnesses."57
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
do not seek to explain or resolve the question of this exclusion in terms of assimilation, inclusion, or civil or human rights, but rather depict aesthetically the impossibility of such resolutions by representing the paradoxes of blackness within and after the legacies of slavery’s denial of Black humanity. I name this paradox the wake, and I use
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