Sublime

Black people have brought new feelings to life and made them available to broader publics.

Illegibility was a political act.

social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.

“the power of the state’s criminal system against itself … hijacking the booking process, enabling the state to produce its own strategic blunder, its own tragic actions.” They enact instead powerful forms of subversion. “They give us a chance to take the measure of these men and women in the very heat of battle, and perhaps to take measure of ours

Perversely, irony relies on some remains of cultural capital in order to coherently express its destructive message. If elevated beyond commentary and analysis to its own pedestal of artistic value, its essence become desacralization and the making trite of deep truths we might prefer to respect and conserve.

they identify the archive as a site of struggle and contestation not only over control of history and social memory but also over subjectivity and community formation.

The form of the protest—the bizarre blood sculpture, the poems—was itself a protest against passivity, lack of imagination, and normalcy.

rooted in group Supremacy.