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“nothing is ever escaped” – james baldwin Joined August 2018

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a week ago

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it’s almost as if the idea that reading is either a technical instrument (i.e., a means to an end) or a recreational pleasure—rather an ethical-political duty—has done immeasurable damage to american culture.

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a week ago

cannot count how many times i’ve been asked whether i’m reading “for work or pleasure.”

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a week ago

@jatella @redactedobscure i remember playing reggae at my 21st birthday kickback and seeing you physically recoil. like your body was saying “turn that shit off” before i could even ask what the problem was lmaoo

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a week ago

@jatella !!!

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a week ago

i think part of what i find so fascinating about Saint Omer (2022) is that what haunts the main character is not so much the prospect of an infanticidal deed as the conduct of a confession according to which responsibility for the deed is both unknown and inadmissible—

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a week ago

@jatella could imagine teaching it alongside “Conducts of Confession in North Africa” and “Without Truth”

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a week ago

@AntiClimaco i’d actually like to, but it’ll likely have to be after i finish my diss

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jatella @jatella

a week ago

“There is no black ontology, apart from the deluded belief that there is a black secret to be revealed, and no metaphysical origin that is not already the retrospective myth of ethnographic interpretation.” - David Marriott

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2 weeks ago

oh….Da Silva.

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2 weeks ago

@artisanrocky If race is a social construct, there is no reason one should expect it to be constructed in the same way in different societies. “Anti-blackness functions similarly everywhere” makes sense if there is some biological/spiritual essence to “blackness” that transcends history-

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2 weeks ago

can’t stop going through this paranoiac cycle of (re-)reading the french because i feel like i’m missing something just for them to lead me right back to kant lol