Here are some notes on Denise's text for those interested. Central question: What if blackness referred to rare and obsolete definitions of matter : respectively, “substance … of which something consists” and “substance without form”? How would this affect the question of value? What would become of the economic value of things if they were read as expressions of our modern grammar and its defining logic of obliteration? Would this expose how the object (of exchange, appreciation, and knowledge)—that is, the economic, the artistic, and the scientific thing—cannot be imagined without presupposing an ethical (self-determining) thing, which is its very condition of existence and the determination of value in general. On Blackness as disruptive force: activate blackness’s disruptive force, that is, its capacity to tear the veil of transparency (even if briefly) and disclose what lies at the limits of justice. when deployed as method, blackness fractur...
Yesterday I spent my day discovering Deej's (amazing) project and researching a bit more about autism.
ReplyDeleteI just found it fantastic!!
So, today I got really down when I found out that the Deej's event was cancelled :-(
In other hand, it made me think about what he wrote concerning “a necessary ecology”.
So, what happened today with the event feels like a perfect example of it.
“There are no self-made plants”
As an ecological system, it needs the collaboration of subsystems. When one of those subsystems fail, things could not happen as planned or, like in this case, it just did not happen, showing us clearly the relation of co-dependence.
We can maybe talk more about it tomorrow :-)