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...
Surprising eloquence indeed coming from an basketball coach. I don't know his background but we're far from the vacuous blabber I'm used to overhearing from local sport aficionados on RDS; of course, this might be coming from my personnal dislike of such organised sport organisations. It's important for a man from his position not only to recognize such systemic problems but to use his position to speak some sense. It pisses me off to write this, but the racism problem in America is so intense as this point that such a point might not get through at all if spoken by someone else that an old white man. But then again this stems from a larger systemic problem that invalidates individuals that come from outside this arbitrary hierarchy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this, I agree that white discomfort is important.
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