Ashon’s reading practices, of Black practices, is a testimony that other kinds of relations beyond those of domination, property, the law of the father can, must, and do matter.
Black matter is neither dead nor deconstruced. It is multidirectional and creative.
How, I wondered, could someone so fail to understand that Blackness is in the doing and being, not the epidermis?
Blackpentecostal breath testifies that Blackness is in the flesh: how it responds, moves and the sounds it creates.
Ashon’s shift from the visual register to enlist other sensorium is essential for Black study and has large scholarly implications—What else might we open up? Where else might we go from here?
response: Ashon Crawley
Imani Perry’s meditation on Blackpentecostal Breath caused me to think about loss, caused me also, yes, to think about capacity. And not just the loss of the personal. What can loss produce in terms of sociality? What if we lose the concepts that have proven, in this long episteme, to produce violence, exclusion, violation ongoingly? What would be the result of such an epistemic loss, what could such loss open up to us, make us open to?
I think, what if we lost this concept of social death as the organizing principle for understanding black life and sociality?
Blackpentecostals taught me that folks all the time misrecognize the pulsing life of the practice because they have an aversion to the flesh.
Blackpentecostals also taught me that it is ok, it is indeed lovely, to celebrate the thing that folks avert because it is not a cause for shame but a cause for imagining that we can exist as critical thinkers through flesh practice.
We can, in other words, reject the terms of order, Cedric Robinson might say, the terms that order normative life to live into and refuse the shame of otherwise possibility.
What if we lost our appetite for conspicuous consumption, what if we lost our desire for inclusion in white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, what if we celebrated that life can happen—indeed, does happen—for the excluded and marginalized? What if we recalibrated desire such that we celebrated the excluded and marginalized while fighting against the violent forces that produce the occasion for excluding and marginalizing? This is the problem of our time, this is the concern that Blackpentecostal Breath attempts to consider, interrogate and perform.
https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/blackpentecostal-breath/#what-is-this-blackness-in-black-study
Black matter is neither dead nor deconstruced. It is multidirectional and creative.
How, I wondered, could someone so fail to understand that Blackness is in the doing and being, not the epidermis?
Blackpentecostal breath testifies that Blackness is in the flesh: how it responds, moves and the sounds it creates.
Ashon’s shift from the visual register to enlist other sensorium is essential for Black study and has large scholarly implications—What else might we open up? Where else might we go from here?
response: Ashon Crawley
Imani Perry’s meditation on Blackpentecostal Breath caused me to think about loss, caused me also, yes, to think about capacity. And not just the loss of the personal. What can loss produce in terms of sociality? What if we lose the concepts that have proven, in this long episteme, to produce violence, exclusion, violation ongoingly? What would be the result of such an epistemic loss, what could such loss open up to us, make us open to?
I think, what if we lost this concept of social death as the organizing principle for understanding black life and sociality?
Blackpentecostals taught me that folks all the time misrecognize the pulsing life of the practice because they have an aversion to the flesh.
Blackpentecostals also taught me that it is ok, it is indeed lovely, to celebrate the thing that folks avert because it is not a cause for shame but a cause for imagining that we can exist as critical thinkers through flesh practice.
We can, in other words, reject the terms of order, Cedric Robinson might say, the terms that order normative life to live into and refuse the shame of otherwise possibility.
What if we lost our appetite for conspicuous consumption, what if we lost our desire for inclusion in white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, what if we celebrated that life can happen—indeed, does happen—for the excluded and marginalized? What if we recalibrated desire such that we celebrated the excluded and marginalized while fighting against the violent forces that produce the occasion for excluding and marginalizing? This is the problem of our time, this is the concern that Blackpentecostal Breath attempts to consider, interrogate and perform.
https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/blackpentecostal-breath/#what-is-this-blackness-in-black-study
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